Project 2 Advice, Since It's Due Tomorrow and I'm Reading Drafts and Things Occur to Me

One rule of thumb to make sure that you're writing an analysis and not a response is to watch out for phrases like "I agree" or "In my opinion."

Awesome. But what I asked was, "What was Chris was saying, and did he do a good job saying it?"

Even if you don't use those phrases exactly, if your paragraph, thesis, or other paper component could easily include that phrase, be on the lookout for response overshadowing analysis.

   Don't let response pull a Kanye on your well-intentioned Taylor Swift-like analysis.

When you find response rather than analysis, hunt all traces of the response down and excise them cleanly and heartlessly from your paper.

Generally, get rid of any first person singular (i.e. "I" or "me") that shows up in the paper and make sure it doesn't leave any opinions about the topic rather than the article behind.