While your format requirements are somewhat more open-ended, the argumentative requirement itself is the same. You will organize these individual readings or your text(s) around a clearly defined thesis, one that takes an argumentative risk for which your textual analysis will form the support. You will show your reader something about the literary features of these texts that they would not have seen upon a first reading, by connecting smaller formal choices to larger thematic concerns. The book is Citizen: An American Lyric You may choose the thesis or what to analyze about the book, but it needs to be specific. No fluff about what the book is about.