Assignment Guidelines and Goals for Essays 1, 2, and 3
Guidelines
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Goals
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Assignment Breakdown
For Essay 1, we will inquire into the following two questions:
Consequently, you will work to "see," understand, and articulate in writing the strategies that rhetors (those who practice rhetoric) use to effect persuasion in an academic text and in a rhetorical situation you have experienced in your everyday life.
In order to develop your understanding of rhetoric and the strategies people perform to effect persuasion, you will:
To begin, you will write out an inventory of concerns, which will begin your inquiry into what writing is for you, what difficulties you normally face when having to write, and how you might use this class to overcome some of the limitations you experience as a writer in college.
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Essays 2 and 3
Here we will investigate the question: What does it mean to seriously engage in extended research projects and then argue using your research to impact different audiences?
Consequently, you will deepen your understanding of rhetoric through researching and writing about a controversy (an issue that people continue to argue about) you select, in a series of stages:
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Unit 3
For the Portfolio, we will work to "revise" our understanding of revision: If revision has little to do with editing, then what does it mean to carry out a significant revision project?
Key to the process of developing a new understanding of revision, you will reflect upon what you are learning in this course by putting together a portfolio of your work over the semester. Using the portfolio as the source material, you will thoughtfully consider the customary practices you have concerning writing and revision. The focus here is on opening up to insights into your limitations concerning writing, collaborating, and revising, with the aim to develop a possible strategy for revising one piece, both globally and stylistically. The final portfolio includes a self-assessment memo, two revised pieces, along with the prior drafts, and a cover memo:
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