Read the essay with the filename “CharlottePerkinsGilmanEssay2” in the Contents section of our class site. Then type and submit answers to the following 10 questions as a reading reflection on the essay. Please remember to include your name, and please upload a PDF document.

What are your initial assumptions about the essay based on the article?

Have you read any of the works cited in the essay? (you can leave this one blank)

Look up the author of the essay. Is the author an authority and the essay’s subject? Are they a credible source?

Who do you think is the essay’s audience?

What is the author’s purpose in writing the essay?

What is the thesis or main argument?

What information is fact? What information is opinion?

Is there a gap in information? In logic?

Can you find instances of bias?

Is the author successfully persuasive? If so, why? If not, why?