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choose any topic that is argumentative in nature that is trying to convince you of something. you have to write 2 page rhetorical answer that answer this question “how (do) the key device in an argument makes it succeed or fail”. also add quote from whatever piece that is chosen. this is a Rhetorical Analysis assignment.

What is an evaluation? An evaluation provides validation for the quality or lack of quality for a particular item, product, book movie, etc. You will judge something according to certain criteria, supporting it with reasons and evidence. Key Features of an evaluation Criteria: You need to determine clear criteria as the basis for your judgement. What criteria do you look for or expect when choosing what restaurant to dine? What criteria do you use when choosing a movie to watch? Judgement: Based on the criteria you developed, has it been met? Evidence: Supports the judgement. Evaluation Essay/Final Exam Requirements: Introduction (1 paragraph 7-10): include your thesis statement/judgement of the topic. Describe what you are evaluating.    Body paragraphs (4-5 or more): supporting details that support the thesis statement and a topic sentence for each paragraph. In the body of an evaluation essay, you will offer evidence to support your judgments. Each criteria should include evidence to support why you made this judgment about the subject. Each body paragraph should focus on a specific criteria. Conclusion (1 paragraph 5-7 sentences): Conclude by summarizing the main points you have made. End with a recommendation for what you are evaluating. Restate your judgment. Minimum essay requirements: should be 750 words (roughly 3 pages) https://www.nytimes.com/section/books https://www.nytimes.com/section/movies https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/

Instructions: After reading the LUMEN lesson “The Qualities of Good Research” and watching the video “Choosing a Management Research Topic” and the modules readings/videos in unit 2, look ahead to the module essay prompt. Identify a potential research topic for the essay and brainstorm around the items in the list below. Then, identify which one or two of the items from your brainstorm you will consider for your essay topic, and why/how they are manageable topics. Include your brainstormed ideas for all five items, and a paragraph summary of your brainstorm, potential essay topics, and supporting reasons. Narrowing a Topic – Brainstorm: A single event A specific group A limited time period One cause or effect One argument or viewpoint

This assignment assesses awareness of attitudes and beliefs and evaluates worldview. To complete this assignment, reflect on an experience you have had in your life that has involved a cross-cultural experience (positive or negative) associated with at least one of the dimensions of diversity. Identify an incident that had significance for you.  The event may have made you stop and think or it raised questions for you about your beliefs, attitudes, values or behavior.  It is either a time you felt a great sense of belonging or an uneasiness.  Reflection ·       Write a narrative in the first person as the storyteller. Describe the situation you experienced in detail as the events occurred in a sequence indicating what, when, where, how and why the events occurred. Describe events, actions, conversations, and/or dialogue without trying to interpret it and include details that may seem like they are trivial or inconsequential.    ·       List the cultural characteristics of the person(s) involved in the situation giving their relationship to one another. Use objective language, identify own assumptions and perspectives at the time of the event. ·       Specify how you reacted or handled the situation. What did you feel at the time (fear, anger, hatred, compassion, etc.) Be descriptive about body language, physiological experiences, etc. Be kind to yourself and do not judge or blame. Simply share the details of your reaction, and explain what experiences or knowledge influenced your reaction. ·       Explain the ‘dimensions of diversity’ associated explicitly and implicitly with the situation and cross-cultural issues that occurred. Action ·       Describe why the situation was handled well or how it could have been handled better. ·       How might your reaction and emotions mirror others in the community? ·       What knowledge and skills are needed to improve empathy and compassion in our community?

You will develop a seven-paragraph causal analysis essay where you will discuss the food industry and marketing as a social issue. You will also learn how to enter an academic or professional conversation by summarizing and paraphrasing an author’s main points and using evidence from sources to support your claims.   Think about different ways you can discuss the food industry. You might discuss the organic food industry and agriculture. What effect does the food industry’s cheap prices and high demand have on agriculture?   You might discuss the fast food industry marketing towards certain socioeconomic groups. How does the food industry target communities or schools, and what is the cause-effect relationship here?  Should the fast food industry take some responsibility for the role they play in health problems in our nation’s children?  How the industry might directly be causing obesity? Whatever you decide, you must have five main points (5 supporting paragraphs) to support your argument.   You must also decide whether you will focus on cause or effect and stick with one pattern for developing your argument. At least one reputable, reliable source should be used to support your argument and set up the conversation. A source can be used in support of your own ideas, or as a launching point for your disagreement. You can use other sources, but they should be from an accredited, peer reviewed journal and not a random website or blog online. You can also use a food industry documentary as a source. You must include direct quotes, summary or paraphrase, in-text citations, and a Works Cited page listing the primary text and any other resources.  MLA format is required.   You should also strive to maintain a balance between your ideas and your source material. Integrate sources, but lead with your own ideas. Use signal phrases to distinguish your writing from your sources, and follow all information with an in-text citation. Third person point of view is required.   Some basic rules: The essay must have a thesis statement that states your stance on the topic and establishes the cause and effect relationship between two things. Your thesis cannot be a question. You can ask a question to prompt a thesis, but you must make an original and arguable claim on the topic. The introduction must introduce the central issue you are discussing You must have at least one source to support your argument, and the source must come from an accredited, academic journal that has been peer reviewed, or the source must be from a reputable website like the CDC or the World Health Organization. Source material should be introduced before paraphrasing, summarizing, or quoting, including the author’s name and the title of the work.  All source material must be attributed to the author using signal phrases and in-text citations. You should have 5 supporting paragraphs with topic sentences that introduce the main idea in each paragraph. The topic sentence cannot be a quote or someone else’s ideas. The essay should be written in third person point of view and present verb tense.  When paraphrasing and summarizing another person’s ideas from an article or book, present verb tense should always be used. MLA format, in-text citations, and a Works Cited page are required.   Basic grammar—check for basic grammatical errors like fragments, run-ons, subject/verb agreement, verb tense consistency, and comma placement. I attached the files she gave us to use as sources.   Previous Next

Go Danteworlds ( http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/ )and read to find an area, and discuss one of Dante’s circles of the Inferno or Purgatorio. Discuss briefly (one or two sentences) what kind of sin is there and what is the punishment or penance. Is it an appropriate setup? Do you feel it is too harsh or too lenient, and explain why? How would you change it to fit your answer, and fit the modern time? (Now, I understand that people can get creative, so please make sure to keep your language proper, and your responses relevant. Also, keep your replies respectful.

Assignment: Identify a culture or perhaps some cultural phenomena, then compare and contrast both insider and outsider perspectives, discussions, and explanations of that culture or cultural phenomena; in addition to comparing outsider and insider perspective you will also engage in a cause-and-effect analysis of that culture or some of its practices.  Your outsider-perspective analysis must include the theories, concepts, and studies present in Clash!. In addition to the theories presented in Clash!, you may include other theories discovered through your own research. But make sure that your essay makes use of the concepts from Clash!, concepts such as the culture cycle, dependence/interdependence, and any other areas of cultural analysis explored in Clash! that are relevant to your essay. For example, if you were to explore Southern California surfing culture, your essay would likely benefit from utilizing the analysis of U.S. regional cultures found in Chapter 6 of Clash!.  In addition to the outsider perspective found in Clash! and other academic sources you find relevant, your essay must use an insider source. An insider source is the product of a native or natives of that culture. Novels, poetry, music, movies, visual and/or digital arts, interviews, academic work from natives to that culture, as well as other sources may serve as insider perspectives. Academic discourse often favors the outside expert’s point of view. For example, if you were to explore female genital mutilation, you would likely hear many voices from outsiders, most of whom would likely be, understandably, critical of the practice. However, in this assignment, an essay that only explored this outsider position would be incomplete. You must go further and find insider voices, people for whom the practice is natural and normal, or at least those who have experienced it firsthand. Then, through comparison and contrast of these perspectives and cause-and-effect analysis, arrive at a more thorough exploration of your chosen culture or cultural phenomena/phenomenon.  Length and Formatting: 6-7 pages (not including works cited page). Follow MLA conventions for academic writing: In general, 1-inch margins all around, 12-point MLA-approved font (Times New Roman if uncertain), double-spaced, page number and last name in upper right-hand header (.5” from the top). Sources: You will need at least four sources. We will discuss different types of sources and their appropriate use. Among your sources you must include:  ·       Clash! ·       One insider source of your choosing ·       One multimedia source representing insider perspective ·       One additional academic article accessed through our college databases This assignment challenges us to find authority outside traditional institutions. Consequently, it may be challenging to determine whose voice is authoritative on a given subject. For example, a paper exploring the issue of sexual violence facing Native American women on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation would want to look at the work of sociologists, anthropologists, and similar experts dealing with this issue; however, it would be necessary to listen to those who are directly affected by this phenomenon — the survivors. Finding these unmediated insider voices can be more challenging. For this half of your research you may use social media posts like Instagram and Twitter; visual media such as TV, movies, photography, and paintings; novels, poetry, or essays; as well as interviews with native participants, which you may conduct yourself.  Organization: The dominant rhetorical mode of this assignment is compare/contrast (and perhaps some synthesis) and cause and effect. There are a couple of ways to organize a compare-and-contrast essay. One method is whole-to-whole while the other is part-to-part. We will talk about the specifics of each of these. You will need to decide what method is most appropriate for your topic. Also, your essay will benefit from use of our previously studied rhetorical modes.  The Purpose: This is a research assignment (blended with some cultural analysis and perhaps a little psychology or economics or biology, depending on the direction of your exploration and your own areas of interest) designed to help you practice the research and the higher-order analysis waiting for you at the university level. Potential Areas of Focus: Broad areas of consideration in which you may find more specific topics are family, friends, love, marriage, work, leisure, education, class, food, medicine, sex, death, art, religion, migration, drugs, technology, individualism, collectivism, war — basically the entirety of human experience.  For example, if you chose to explore the veneration of the cow in Hindu culture, you would next need to find sources that explore cow veneration from both insider and outsider perspectives and consider the following questions: How are these perspectives in conflict with one another? Can these two perspectives be reconciled? How are these perspectives in agreement? How does looking at this phenomenon from both perspectives lead to a richer and fuller understanding of the issue?

How would you dine with a person who has different dining etiquettes from you?

HW #7 – “The Law and 3D Printing”  Pages 52-66  NOTE:  only pages 52-59 are the actual article.  The rest is bibliographical information.  Read the article and skim the bibliography.  Each response should be the equivalent of 25% of a single-spaced typed page. What are NASA and the military doing with 3D printing technology?  What are the advantages for these institutions in using this type of technology rather than conventional means of production? It seems as though the technology comes before the regulation of the technology. (I’m speaking in general terms, not just 3D printing.)  Why do you think this is?  Why don’t we anticipate the legal aspects of these new technologies? According to the author (Tran), what is the purpose of his creating a bibliography focused on 3D printing? What is “bioprinting” and what potential applications could be derived from it? What might the future look like when bioprinting becomes common? Tran coined the term “cloneprinting.” What is it and what might be the ethical consequences of such a development? How does 3D printing overlap with the First and Second Amendments? SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC: Read part 3 of Tran’s article.  This section explains how Tran gathered his research.  Note the successes and the failures he experienced while trying to search for what he wanted.  How does this parallel with your own experiences of conducting research?

Poetry Assignment: Close Reading   For this assignment, you will be using “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti. You will choose a section of the poem to do a close reading. The chosen section needs to be 14 lines MINIMUM. You can do more than 14 lines, but do not do the entire poem—it is too big to do a close reading in the amount of words I am limiting you to. You can do several sections of the poem if you want.   This past few weeks, we learned about “translating” a poem; now, I want you to practice that and move toward analyzing the poem. You will be using this same process in your official poem explication assignment.   I know poems are tricky, but everyone has the ability to understand a poem. Here are the steps you should take for this assignment.   Follow the link below to learn  about closely reading a poem:   Purdue OWL // Poetry: Close Reading : there is also a slideshow at the bottom of this page. This slideshow is very helpful for breaking down the process step-by-step.   So, to review: A close reading is the careful, sustained analysis of any text that focuses on significant details or patterns and that typically examines some aspect of the text’s form, craft, meaning, etc.   Now, in your textbook, read pages 518-520 to learn about rhyme scheme. ?       If you are still confused about this, there is a worksheet in the drive that explains it more (titled “rhyme scheme worksheet”).   Re-read and TRANSLATE a 14-line section of “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti. If you don’t understand the steps I gave you in class (watch the class recordings available to you), use the ones that Purdue OWL gives you: Read the poem slowly Read it at least twice Read it aloud Annotate/define important words, images, phrases, and sections Remember that you need to first understand the literal words before moving on to thinking about the text figuratively. Once you understand the literal words of the poem, now move on to writing down your close reading. This all comes from the Purdue OWL PPT I point out in #1. Understand the poem’s project/goal Subject of the poem? Speaker? Larger context? Genre/mode?  Examine form and structure: how is the poem formed or put together? What does the form contribute to the content? Look closely at each line of the poem and begin analyzing Line length and variation / line breaks / enjambed vs. end-stopped lines Look for places where form and line change Look closely at language the poet uses — remember that language and figurative language work to alter the layers and associations working in a text. Diction? Tone or mood? Images that stand out? Figurative language? The job of the poet is to “make it new” Does the poet combine unexpected elements, like form and subject? Does s/he employ an unusual perspective? How does the poet’s language make something new or surprising? Make a claim about how the poem works or what the poet is doing (your thesis). What is the overall effect of the whole poem’s crafting, and the elements that are part of the craft? Where does the poem take us (emotionally, intellectually, narratively, etc.)? Now that you have a claim (thesis), write a short essay around that claim in which you prove it using evidence from the poems. NOTE: Check the “Quote Integration” PDF in G drive to see how you quote AND cite a poem (it is different than fiction).   Requirements: ?       MLA Format ?       Thesis-driven ?       300-500 words ?       Due by November 6th before midnight in the Daily Grade folder drop box.