Your Critical Reading Response needs to be as long as it takes to fully address a summary, critical analysis, and conclusion as detailed below.

• If you cite other books, essays, articles, etc., include a reference or works cited section.

SUMMARY

• Summarize the reading by describing its overall arc as well as its most central details.

CRITICAL ANALYSIS

• Identify the primary thesis, argument, issue, or research questions presented in the reading.
• Identify and briefly summarize a primary theoretical orientation that the author/s use.
• Explicate how the author/s apply theory to their topic to support their thesis and critical analysis.
• Explicate at least two key examples (ethnographic, statistical, media, current event, etc.) that the author/s use to support their primary argument and critical analysis.
• Explicate any counterarguments to the primary arguments that the author/s address (not all readings will do this).
• Critically analyze how effective their work is – provide a few specific examples of its strong and weak points.

CONCLUSION

• Describe and critically analyze an element of the reading that particularly impacted you.
• Explain how the work in your chosen reading contributes to psychological anthropology.