Why is it persuasive? Should Dog College be free to all dogs. What are the week point of the Story There are only so many dog colleges that Ringo would get lost in the crowd and not get in.

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Short story

Draft paper 2
Character Ringo the dog
Goal Get into the best school for adult dog training

Dilemma/plot Only privileged dogs get into dog college. Ringo can not afford college, nobody ever believed in Ringo.
Questions to the reader How does the Dog college charge so much. If we had every dog with an education, the United States would be stronger and more independent
Why is it persuasive? Should Dog College be free to all dogs.
What are the week point of the Story There are only so many dog colleges that Ringo would get lost in the crowd and not get in.
What ios the Moral of the story IF all colleges were free then we would have smart dogs!

 

Identify three important sources that support your argument. For each one, explain its importance in two or three sentences. List at least one objection or reservation you would expect from readers who do not agree with your stance on this issue.

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“Becoming” by Michelle Obama from Chapter 5

A prospectus allows a writer to decide what her/his/their paper will look like—the writer can try out ideas, think about the ideas, and plan the writing – it should allow the writer to ponder how to support the stance and consider what others’ objections to it may be. And these guidelines and suggestions should allow you to write a prospectus for your research essay:

1. In a sentence or two, state your thesis, and write the opening paragraph (or the first page) of your research essay.

2. Write a scratch outline. List three to five reasons you will give readers to persuade them that your stance is best. Your reasons may come from Becoming, other sources, in-class writing, or personal experience.

3. Identify three important sources that support your argument. For each one, explain its importance in two or three sentences.

4. List at least one objection or reservation you would expect from readers who do not agree with your stance on this issue.

5. Identify a source that challenges your position. In one or two sentences, explain how you will argue against it convincingly.

6. Try to support your argument. Select one of the reasons you listed in item two and write a page or so supporting it with facts, examples, statistics, anecdotes, or personal experiences. Write quickly. Announce your stance in the first few sentences, and then go directly to your support for it. Your purpose should be, simply, to try and articulate at least some part of your essay before you write the first draft. ou may adopt another strategy for beginning the f’ h essay

7. You can— if you prefer—begin by writing your introduction.

8. You may generate a page of freewriting, clustering, or brainstorming.

9. You may write an outline.

10. You may draw a connection (e.g., self to text, text to text, or text to world).

11. You may just begin writing, using a talking point (or a key idea) as your source of inspiration.

12. You may think about (and discuss) how to make a substantial or deep change in 1 or Essay 2 to create your research essay.

How do you explain these paradoxes and contradictions? How do Zitkala-Sa’s writings show her caught between two different worlds with different values? How do her writings show her both harmed by the American Indian boarding school system and succeeding in it?

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“The School Days of an Indian Girl,” “An Indian Teacher Among Indians” and “The Great Spirit” in the book American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

 

In these stories, Zitkala-Sa describes contradictory feelings about the education system for American Indian tribal members. She feels differently about the system at different times, but the development of her feelings toward and her understanding of the system isn’t even or smooth. For example, even after she comes to certain conclusions about negative impacts of the American Indian boarding school system, she excels in that system, and even after she understands how the system’s purpose is to make its pupils less “Indian” and more “American,” she comes to teach for it.

How do you explain these paradoxes and contradictions? How do Zitkala-Sa’s writings show her caught between two different worlds with different values? How do her writings show her both harmed by the American Indian boarding school system and succeeding in it? How can her educational excellence be said to make her an example of the system even as she criticizes the system and what it’s done to her indigenous values and views? How and why can both points of view, even as they seem contradictory, be said to be valid? How does the stated educational purpose of the boarding school system for American Indians, to make its students less “Indian” and more “American” seem problematic? How does it call into question what it means to be “American”? Is “American” a cultural construction, because if not, who would be more “American” than the people who were here before European colonizers? Where does Zitkala-Sa, an “American Indian,” fit between “American” and “Indian,” and how does her experience with the boarding school system demonstrate that difficulty?

Does your thesis statement identify the two subjects you are comparing and tell why they are alike (and perhaps also briefly acknowledge their differences)? Does your paper’s structure follow either a point-by-point or a subject-by-subject pattern?

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Play Analysis

Have you chosen two subjects that have significant similarities?
 Does your thesis statement identify the two subjects you are comparing and tell why they are alike (and perhaps also briefly acknowledge their differences)?

Does your paper’s structure follow either a point–by–point or a subject–by–subject pattern?

Does each of your topic sentences identify the subject you are discussing and the point you are focusing on in the paragraph?

Do transitional words and phrases clearly lead readers from subject to subject and from point to point?

Have you followed your instructor’s format and documentation guidelines?

Does your paper’s structure follow either a point-by-point or a subject-by-subject pattern? Does each of your topic sentences identify the subject you are discussing and the point you are focusing on in the paragraph?

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Compare and Contrast 2

Writing a Comparison–Contrast (pg. 48 in the textbook)
Have you chosen two subjects that have significant similarities?
Does your thesis statement identify the two subjects you are comparing and tell why they are alike (and perhaps also briefly acknowledge their differences)?
Does your paper’s structure follow either a point–by–point or a subject–by–subject pattern?
Does each of your topic sentences identify the subject you are discussing and the point you are focusing on in the paragraph?
Do transitional words and phrases clearly lead readers from subject to subject and from point to point?
Have you followed your instructor’s format and documentation guidelines?

Does a direct thesis convey both the subject and the reviewer’s value judgment? Does the review provide a summary or description to help you experience the film, music, event, etc.?

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Literature Criticism 1

• Does a direct thesis convey both the subject and the reviewer’s value judgment?
• Does the review provide a summary or description to help you experience the film, music, event, etc.? Note places where the author provides too much or too little detail.
• Does the essay clearly identify relevant criteria for evaluation? Are they appropriate, believable, and consistent?
• Are any important features of the reviewed subject omitted?
• Logos (logic, content): Does the essay provide sufficient, relevant, and interesting details and examples to adequately inform and entertain?
• Ethos (author): Does the author’s judgment seem sound and convincing?
• Pathos (emotional appeals): Does the author responsibly and effectively utilize emotional appeals to the audience?
• Does the author include adequate reference to the opposition and respond to that opposition appropriately?

What is the theme of the poem? What is the poet trying to say? What is the poem about? What happens in the poem? Are conflicts or themes introduced? Resolved? Who is the speaker? What is the “point of view” or perspective of the speaker?

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Poetry Analysis 1

1.What is the theme of the poem? What is the poet trying to say? What is the poem about?

2.What happens in the poem? Are conflicts or themes introduced? Resolved?

3.Who is the speaker? What is the “point of view” or perspective of the speaker? The perspective might be social, intellectual, political, or even physical.

4.What is the setting? What is the time and place? How does the poet make use of the physical description? Does it create a mood?

5.Are there any key statements or lines that indicate meaning? Look for one key line or symbol; however, the poet may make use of recurring symbols, actions, or motifs.

Identify the ways the authors supports the conclusion. Is it research based? Is it a literature search? Is it based on personal experience? Evaluate validity of its ideas, method or presentation, writing style, or attitude toward the subject.

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Call Of The Assignment

Write a critique (1000-1500 words) of an article that has not been assigned for class reading, or otherwise discussed or distributed in this class, defining the essay’s purpose, showing how the author attempted to accomplish it, and evaluating if it was accomplished. You will need to use two sources about the author and the subject to help support your claims.
Suggestions:
Read the article through once.
Reread the article, jotting down its main points.
Determine its thesis, controlling idea, or main argument.
Identify the ways the authors supports the conclusion.
Is it research based?
Is it a literature search?
Is it based on personal experience?
Evaluate validity of its ideas, method or presentation, writing style, or attitude toward the subject.
Be specific by summarizing, paraphrasing, or quoting from the article.
Combine your information into a consistent, coherent whole.
As you read select a few points that might make good quotations, but beware of quoting excessively or using long quotations.
Include a Works Cited page for the essay you critique, as well as any other sources you use in writing your essay.

Just how much depression in young teens is linked to the use of social media? Why do people decide to keep using social media even when knowing long exposure is bad for them? Why is anxiety and depression more found in the modern-day than it was in the past?

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Depression and Social Media (I Search Essay)

The Main Question to the Assignment is….. Just how much depression in young teens is linked to the use of social media? Why do people decide to keep using social media even when knowing long exposure is bad for them? Why is anxiety and depression more found in the modern-day than it was in the past?

If development entails the movement from one viewpoint on the world toward another viewpoint, from what viewpoint does Annie develop (or not develop) away? How is Annie’s development (or lack thereof) situated within the larger context of 20th century Antigua?

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Kincaid’s Annie John

Kincaid’s Annie John is often described as a coming-of-age novel. How does Annie develop (or not develop!) throughout the chapter ‘Columbus in Chains’? If development entails the movement from one viewpoint on the world toward another viewpoint, from what viewpoint does Annie develop (or not develop) away? How is Annie’s development (or lack thereof) situated within the larger context of 20th century Antigua?