I hope this post has given you some helpful direction on this assignment. I’d approach your assignment as follows:
1. Choose the two articles wisely (assuming they haven’t already been assigned, in which case that is easier)
2. Find that outside source
3. Follow each step provided in your assignment.
–Start by summarizing both arguments. (Here’s a helpful post: https:///essay-writing-blog/how-to-summarize-an-article-the-smart-way/ )
–Synthesize the two by answering two questions: What’s similar about these arguments? What’s different about them?
–Add your response. Here’s another helpful post: https:///essay-writing-blog/how-to-write-a-good-essay-commentary/
The French learn to value and practice eloquence from a young age. Almost from day one, students are taught to produce plans for their compositions, and are graded on them. The structures change with fashions. Youngersters were once taught to express a progression of ideas. Now they follow a dialectic model of thesis-antithesis-synthesis. If you listen carefully to the French arguing about any topic they all follow this model closely: they present an idea, explain possible objections to it, and then sum up their conclusions. [...] This analytical mode of reasoning is integrated into the entire school corpus.