Description
Use the essay attached as a baseline.
instructions for Assignment #4 – Advocacy
Assignment 4: Advocate
Assignment description:
After having gone through summary, analysis, and synthesis, we will be moving to respond to an issue that you started studying in detail in your synthesis text. Your goal is to propose to your audience how they should respond or view the subject. Your advocacy can be specific or general. You might choose to simply say, “This is how we should view this issue.” You might go even further and make a specific claim such as, “The University of Arkansas should evaluate the current system for (your subject here).”
The goal of this assignment is to put all the tools you have been equipped with together and to use them for the purpose of entering into the conversation you have been studying. As a good writer and student of rhetoric and style, you will want to make sure you do this in a way that is contextually savvy and rigorously cited and presented.
Questions to consider:
How do you want to engage this conversation?
What would you like to see changed?
Whom might you address in order to enact that change?
What forms of appeal might work best with this audience in this context?
What type of document/text works best with your writing/speaking style?
Assignment Guidelines
This assignment should provide your readers with a framework for understanding the arrangement of your text and your subject. You will need to share your point of view and claims using 4-6 sources in the process. Remember to keep your audience clearly in mind as you write. You will be guiding your readers through each of these sources while presenting them via a framework of your own design that accomplishes your goals. Your final deliverable should be 5-7 double-spaced pages in length. For a refresher on how to arrange your text rhetorically, see Chapter 11 of Good Writing.
General Outline:
Introduction
Body section 1
Introduction
Points (multiple sections/paragraphs)
Body section 2 (?)
Introduction
Points (multiple sections/paragraphs)
Conclusion
Your paper should adhere to MLA format and be formatted with 1-inch margins and double spaced. Use Times New Roman size 12 font. Major assignments are graded via the competency rubrics described below. Major Assignments will be uploaded to BlackBoard by 11:59 pm on December 11th AND via hard copy which is due at the beginning of class on December 11th.
BOTH COPIES MUST BE SUBMITTED ON TIME FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT TO BE GRADED. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULT IN 0 POINTS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT.
Major sections of the argument forecast their shape and scope.
Rhetorical Awareness
The text acknowledges the limits of outside sources within a larger conversations.
Purposeful Style
Voice of the writer is appropriate for relevant stakeholders
The text places itself within the cultural and historical setting.
Voice of writer treats the subject with appropriate seriousness/gravitas.
The scope of the argument or advocacy is feasible.
Document visual design supports the purpose or argument.
The argument responds to and addresses stakeholder concerns.
Document structure coordinates with argument and visual style.
Rhetorical choices in sentence style and construction support the argument.
Sentences and paragraphs are logical, cohesive, and support the overall argument of text and each other.