Paper details:
Write about an event in your life that will engage readers and that will, at the same time, help them understand the significance of the event. Tell your story dramatically and vividly.
In at least 1000 words, write an essay in which you use textual evidence to evaluate the argument made by one of the author’s in an article.
Prompt:
Do you agree or disagree with the author’s position on toxic masculinity? Why?
Select 1 article or 1 Youtube video to respond to:
Readings:
Colleen Clemens, “What We Mean When We Say, ‘Toxic Masculinity’”
Howard Cunnell, “Traditional Ideas of Masculinity are Poisoning Our Society. There is Another Way”
Gad Saad, “Is Toxic Masculinity a Valid Concept”
Michael Salter, “The Problem with a Fight Against Toxic Masculinity”
Although the majority of your essay will focus on the article or Youtube video you have chosen to write about, you can cite/incorporate a second article or YouTube video you watched for this section
Step 1: Passage Selection
Using your chosen text, select a passage you will analyze for the author’s style. You can choose the passage from any location in your reading pace chart.
| Pride and Prejudice | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Longitude | The Old Man and the Sea | Hamlet | Brave New World |
| Chapters
1-12 |
Chapters
1-6 |
Chapters
1-3 |
1/3rd of text | Act I | Chapters
1-3 |
Step 2: Author’s Style Components Notes
Be sure to address each topic in your analysis:
| Element of Style | Evidence from the Text | Preliminary Analysis |
| Diction | ||
| Syntax and Grammar | ||
| Figurative Language | ||
| Other |
Step 3: Style Analysis
Write your style analysis of the passage using the excerpt you chose from your text. Remember, all quotations should demonstrate an element of style that you’re analyzing and must be explained. Organize your writing in a logical manner. While there isn’t a word count requirement for your style analysis, your writing should fully analyze the excerpt you chose to receive full credit.
I Like Your Style Rubric
| On Target | Almost There | Needs Improvement | |
| Style Analysis
(40 points) |
40-32 points
· The content is accurate and reflects understanding of the selected reading for the appropriate text. · Explanations are thorough and supported with evidence from the book. · The response includes quotes that directly apply to the analysis. |
31-22 points
· The content is mostly accurate and reflects a partial understanding of the selected reading for the appropriate text. · Explanations are somewhat thorough and supported with evidence from the book. · The response includes quotes that mostly apply to the analysis. |
21-0 points
· The content is not accurate and reflects a cursory understanding of the selected reading for the appropriate text. · Explanations are cursory and not supported with evidence from the book. · The response includes no quotes or irrelevant quotes that directly apply to the analysis. |
| Format
(10 points) |
10-8 points
· The analysis is organized in a logical manner which flows together. · Standard grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure rules are followed with minimal errors. |
7-6 points
· The analysis is somewhat organized. · Standard grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure rules are followed with some errors that do not impede readability. |
5-0 points
· The analysis is not organized in a logical manner. · Standard grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure rules are not followed, and this affects readability. |
This is a draft so it doesn’t have to be perfect draft of your response to the prompt: Have the internet and social media impacted restrictions on free speech? How? Social media and the internet have impacted free speech by restricting it. Citations?
– Gora, Joel M. “Free Speech Still Matters.” Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 87, no. 1, Fall 2021, pp. 195–245. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=155166397&site=ehost-live.
– Hagi, Sarah. “Not Canceled.” Time International (Atlantic Edition), vol. 194, no. 24/25, Dec. 2019, pp. 28–29. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=139832250&site=ehost-live.
After reading Chang’s piece “Is Diversity for white people?” p. 219-234 respond with depth to the five questions below. Think of this as the early beginnings of what your midterm essay will turn into once you integrate your analysis of your institution and expand on Chang’s claims and examples.
What kinds of representations of diversity do you find?
Who do these representations seem to be for? How can you tell?
How might you use Chang’s essay as a lens through which to analyze this material?
What would Chang say about it? How do you know that is what he would say?
And, finally, how does Chang’s essay (if it does) cause you to think of the materials differently than you might have before reading Chang?
In this unit, we have taken a closer look at writing as a craft. We have revisited the writing process and methods for invention, we have examined informal logical fallacies, and we have discussed paragraph cohesion.For this writing, think about your past experiences with writing (which may include the experiences you have had in this course). What advice about writing did you find most helpful? Why? Explain the context that led to this advice. You may also tell more than one story about your writing experiences.The objective of your reflection is to consider the advice of other writers and how we can always improve our writing by listening to others. Further, you are sharing that advice with your reader by reflecting upon the experience.Remember, as always, that this writing should be a positive and constructive experience. The idea is that you reflect upon the process so that you understand it, understand yourself as a new student writer, and understand the challenges and successes you experience.Your journal entry must be at least 200 words.
Instructions
Writing a research paper is a great undertaking, and now you are at the end of the process. No doubt, you feel emboldened by your accomplishment.As we have done throughout this course, you will be asked to reflect one last time. What did you find to be the most challenging about the process of writing this research paper? What did you find to be the easiest? What did you learn about writing in general throughout this course? What did you learn about yourself as a writer? What would you like to share in the way of advice for other students who take this course after you? Discuss how the concepts in this course can be applied to real-world situations and increase your chances of career or life success.Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. necessary.
Purpose of assignment:
The purpose of the assignment is in two folds:
1. to demonstrate understanding of the basic components of argument: claim/thesis, evidence/support, structure, rhetorical strategies, and appeals and
2. to demonstrate recognition that successful writing emerges from a process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, documenting, and formatting.
Assignment Introduction and Objectives
Many people have speculated what makes one written or oral argument stronger than another. Aristotle deduced that a strong argument is composed of three interrelated appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos. Others, such as Stephen Toulmin, have developed methods to describe how an effective argument is constructed.
For this assignment, you will closely analyze an essay or a multimedia material and analyze it rhetorically. Using our notes and discussion of argumentation from class, you will suggest whether the essay’s/speech’s/films’ argument is ultimately strong, weak, well-developed, insufficiently supported, etc. Keep in mind that you will focus mostly on how the author conveys and develops his or her argument, not necessarily on the subject matter. Thus, you may disagree with the author’s viewpoint and still find the argument strong and persuasive. As you analyze the argument, it is to your advantage to support your claims about the argument’s strengths and weaknesses with quotations and specific details from the essay/multimedia material.
Upload a minimum of 5 discussion points from Each chapter (chapter 1 and 2) so a total of 10 discussion points 5 for chapter 1 and 5 for chapter 2. will upload textbook when post it chosen
Suggestions for discussion topics:
Using some of the narratives we have discussed as examples, define and explain what narratives are and why they are written–how they can be powerful and effective means of accomplishing a purpose, to exhibit or express concepts or ideas, and of engaging an audience, particularly in ways that other types of texts cannot.
For this essay, you must refer to and quote from a non-fiction narrative – Supermanandme by Alexie, a fiction narrative – Everyday Use by Walker and the article “In Spite of It All: A Reading of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use””
Rhetoric is everywhere. Songs, poems, articles, speeches, etc. are filled with rhetorical devices that are used to elicit some type of response from readers and viewers. We need to be conscious of the way these devices are employed to persuade, change, and/or manipulate our thinking so that we can make our own informed judgments about how to think, feel, believe, etc. about what is presented to us. We want to be autonomous (self-governing) beings who resist coerced thought. We want ours to be a rational, critical decision, free from the many individual and societal pressures thrust upon us. In short, we want control of our own minds, and so it is important that we fully understand how rhetoric seeks to influence us.
Assignment:
Write about the following option in a 3-4 full page, double-spaced essay:
Analyze a speech and discuss how the piece you select uses rhetoric to manipulate its audience to achieve its purpose.
*Note – it will be important to understand the purpose of the work that you choose in order to show how the rhetorical elements come together to further and support that purpose. Also, you cannot write the essay on “The Perils of Indifference” since we have analyzed that in the class.
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