Description
Overview:
The instructor will provide a selection of source articles that students will choose from. The articles do not have to be from the textbook, but they must each make an argument and have enough substance for students to write about. The articles may cover any topic or range of topics that the instructor chooses, and the instructor should try to construct a realistic rhetorical context in which students are writing their responses.
This assignment should consist largely of rhetorical analysis, but it should also include a response that is informed by the rhetorical analysis. Students should use the terminology from lectures and the textbook to discuss the rhetorical context and rhetorical structure of the source article and then use their insights from this analysis to develop an intelligent response to the article.
Basically, think of this as an agree or disagree paper. Instead of saying “I think” or “I believe,” you will be arguing that your chosen author is correct and presenting that thesis as a fact rather than an opinion. Remember, you are NEVER allowed to use any personal pronouns in an academic essay—no I, you, we, our, etc.
Reading Choices:
- “Are We Worried About Storm’s Identity – Or Our Own?”
- “More Than Cherries”
- “Technology Slaves”
- “Moving To US, Amassing a Fortune, No English Needed”