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175 words.   In Chapter 2 of They Say, I Say, Graff and Birkenstein explain the how to accurately summarize a text. Summarizing a text is more of an art than it might seem at first glance. They note that it is important to balance what the original author says with your own focus (31) and that you need to accurately represent what the original author says so that your reader can assess that author’s case. At the same time, you want to your point or argument to come through.  Chapter 3 of They Say, I Say focuses on how to effectively quote an author. Graff and Birkenstein note that “Quoting someone else’s words gives a tremendous amount of credibility to your summary and helps ensure that it is fair and accurate. In a sense, then, quotations function as a kind of evidence” (42). Quoting allows you to sound authoritative and reliable. In order to quote well, Graff and Birkenstein suggest the following: Pick quotations that are relevant to your purpose. Make sure the quotations you pick support your argument (43). Do not expect a quotation to speak for itself. Remember to frame a quotation by introducing it and explaining it in a follow-up statement (a quotation sandwich) (46).  Use the templates they provide on 46 and 47. I would add that it is very important that you remember to tell your reader who you are quoting, what the source is (the book title or article), and the page number (if there is a page number). After you do the readings in Rereading America for the week, think about Colombo, Cullen, and Lisle’s Introduction to “Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment” and John Taylor Gatto’s article “Against School.” Both of these articles are entering the conversation about the history and purpose of education in the United States. Write a paragraph in which you explain the argument that Gatto makes about mandatory public education. What is his point? How does he support it? Do you agree with him? Why or why not? Does Covid-19’s disruption of K-12 education influence what you think about Gatto’s argument? Make sure to briefly summarize and quote Gatto to make your case.  Explain one way in which his argument either supports or conflicts with Colombo, Cullen, and Lisle’s “Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment.” Your paragraph should be at least 175 words. After you have written your own paragraph, respond to at least two other people’s postings explaining if you agree or disagree with a point they make and why. The discussion assignment is worth 5 points of your Online Discussions and Homework grade and will be graded according to the D2L Discusison Assignment Rubric located under “Content,” and then “Important Course Materials.” The objectives of this discussion assignment are that students will be able to construct logical and coherent arguments; gather factual information and apply it to a given problem; analyze the logical connections among the facts, goals, and implicit assumptions relevant to a problem or claim, and generate and evaluate implications that follow from them; and recognize and articulate the value assumptions which underlie and affect decisions, interpretations, analyses, and evaluations made by ourselves and others.

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Your essay should have five paragraphs—an introduction, three body paragraphs and a conclusion. In addition, you should include a sentence (or two) in your introduction that states the main idea of your paper (also known as a thesis statement). In your body paragraphs, be sure to give examples from your own experience/observations to support your main idea. The key is to SHOW your reader, rather than just tell your reader about your experience.  Finally, proofread your paper carefully to eliminate spelling and grammar errors.

Module One, you did a literal reading of your selected reading. In Module Two, you learned some active reading strategies and applied critical analysis to “Turning Off, Dining In.” Finally, you identified some important features of your selected reading and formed your evaluation of the author’s claim for your critical analysis essay. Now it is time to start the planning phase of your Critical Analysis Essay that is due in Module 8. This week, you’ll answer some questions that will guide you through a closer analysis of your selected reading. You’ll use the analysis strategies you practiced in Module Two to learn more about the meaning of your reading. By answering these questions, you will complete the first step in the writing process: a Writing Plan. The assignment below will ask you to consider how the following critical elements relate to your selected reading: author’s claim* author’s key points* author’s audience* author’s connection to the audience your evaluation* If you need a copy of your article, click on the title of your selected reading to access another copy. “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan (2006) “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris (1999) “Some Lessons From the Assembly Line” by Andrew Braaksma (2005) Constructing Your Writing Plan To complete this assignment, do an active reading of your selected reading using the analysis techniques mentioned in Module Two. Be sure to take notes. Next, you will make a plan for writing your critical analysis essay. As you work on the Writing Plan, remember to refer to the assignment guidelines and rubric below to make sure you’re fulfilling each aspect of the assignment. Assignment Guidelines and Rubric Overview: The first final project for this course is a writing plan. The writing plan will guide you through the first steps of drafting the critical analysis essay that is the final project for this course. Prompt: For this writing plan, you will analyze your selected reading and state an opinion or evaluation about the author’s claim. You will then use evidence or key points from the selected reading to back-up your evaluation. Each response should be one fully developed paragraph in length (5-8 sentences). Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: What is the author’s claim in the selected reading? In other words, what do you believe the author wants their audience to learn or understand better once they’ve finished reading? Have you identified new key points that the author uses to support their claim in the selected reading? If so, include them here. If not, restate the key points you uncovered in your Writing Notes assignment and explain why the key points from your Writing Notes have remained the same, even after conducting an active reading of the article. Describe the author’s target audience: what group or groups of people is the author trying to reach with their message? What choices does the author make within their writing to connect with this target audience? Explain your evaluation of the author’s claim: is the claim strong or weak? What evidence or key points from the writing best support the author’s claim? If you found the claim to be weak, explain why the evidence or key points provided did not effectively support the author’s claim. Guidelines for Submission: Save your work in a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Then, check your writing for errors. Once you have proofread your document, submit it via the Module 3, 3-2 Writing Plan assignmet. ??

Each week students are expected to read an article related to rehabilitation counseling from a peer reviewed professional journal and provide a review of the article read. The article review should be no less than 200 words, be free of grammatical and typographical errors, and be cited properly as per APA standards. Students should save a copy of the article review on their harddrive but cut and paste the article review to the discussion board. Article reviews will always be due on the Thursday of the week assigned by 11:59 PM EST. For example, Unit 1 article review is due on Thursday, June 4, 2014 at 11:59 PM EST. Additionally, students are expected to give a response to two other classmates’ article reviews.

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Rogerian Letter: Essay #1 Letter to the Author Instructions: After reading the articles; “The Corona-virus Generation Will Use Language Differently” by John McWhorton write a Rogerian (argument) letter that responds to the author’s argument: Remember the letter style is a ‘genre’ of writing and your audience shapes the argument, determines your purpose and context. So you can begin with, Dear John McWhorton. Important: Read the entire “All About Arguments,” and accompanying handouts, to become familiar with argument styles and terms. Follow the Rogerian Style of Arguments and read how to write a Rogerian Letter. Keep in mind that a ‘letter’ is a style or form, but the way he presents his ideas depends on organization of ideas using Rhetorical Modes/Patterns: illustration, narrative, process, argument (opinion), cause and effect, compare and contrast, description, definition, and classification. Please be sure to read and view all the related material for this assignment. Finally, the reason we are beginning with a letter style argument is that of all writing forms, a letter requires students to have a specific ‘real person’ audience as they write. This will help later in other other essays, to understand the importance of audience, purpose, tone, language in writing. Even though this essay is in letter form, I expect students to follow MLA style: Times New Roman font, 12 point font, double-space sentences, 1″ margins, page number, and correct MLA style and placement of name, instructor, course and date. See sample on MLA Powerpoint. Your letter should be at least three pages (double-spaced) and be creative! Make things up, add videos or pictures, have some fun with it! Include other sources and mention them in your letter (see ‘Guidelines for Writing Rogerian/Essay/Letter’ below). Finally, after reading about “What is an Argument in Writing” think about what argument you are making about what you have learned and are sharing; and what is the opposing viewpoint to yours?”

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Please remember that an essay has:  ? a title  ? an opening paragraph with your main idea for the essay  ? separate supporting paragraphs with supporting evidence or arguments  ? a closing paragraph that restates your main idea and your conclusion While I am open to you using a format other than an essay to express your ideas, if your main idea is not clearly expressed and your evidence (i.e., elements of the musical itself) does not clearly support your main idea, your grade for the assignment will suffer. • Both Hanson and Johnson insist that their views on the metaphor of America as a “melting pot” would lead to greater equality in American society if more Americans agreed with them—even if they totally disagree with each other. Which author makes the better argument? Refer to 2-3 events in real life to support your argument. o You may include the personal experiences of yourself and other people you know to support your argument, but do not limit the evidence you use to your personal experiences. o Remember that you don’t have to decide that one author is absolutely right and the other is absolutely wrong. If you agree with some parts of each argument and disagree with other parts, then write about that. https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/melting-pot-lies/

Prompt: Do you think anyone in the United States can be successful, so long as they work hard and persevere or hard work is not enough, and that other factors—like race, gender, sexual orientation, pedigree, etc.—play a large role in determining the degree to which (and ease with which) a person can succeed in America. Write an essay that discusses the validity of these two positions and indicate which side— I wanted you to choose and write about this side anyone in the United States can be successful, so long as they work hard and persevere. A successful paper will have: A good title (Try a two-part title, with an attention-getter + topic. For example, Under the Influence: The American Dream Deludes, Denies, and Deceives). An effective introduction (both interesting and focused). A clear, well-phrased thesis statement in the first paragraph. Adequate and relevant supporting information (quotations, statistics, analysis. etc.). An easy-to-follow organization. A satisfying conclusion. Correct MLA document design. MLA-style in-text citations that indicate the authors and (if available) page numbers of your sources. An MLA-style works cited page for also Here is an essay example My Job in an Apple Plant Introductory paragraph (with italicized Thesis Statement) In the course of working my way through school, I have taken many jobs I would rather forget. I have spent nine hours a day lifting heavy automobile and truck batteries off the end of an assembly belt. I have risked the loss of eyes and fingers working a punch press in a textile factory. I have served as a ward aide in a mental hospital, helping care for brain-damaged men who would break into violent fits at unexpected moments. But none of these jobs was as dreadful as my job in an apple plant. The work was physically hard; the pay was poor; and, most of all, the working conditions were dismal. First supporting paragraph (with italicized Transition and Topic Sentence) First of all, the job made enormous demands on my strength and energy. For ten hours a night, I took cartons that rolled down a metal track and stacked them onto wooden skids in a tractor-trailer. Each carton contained twelve heavy cans or bottles of apple juice. A carton shot down the track about every fifteen seconds. I once figured out that I was lifting an average of twelve tons of apple juice every night. When a truck was almost filled, I or my partner had to drag fourteen bulky wooden skids into the empty trailer nearby and then set up added sections of the heavy metal track so that we could start routing cartons to the back of the empty van. While one of us did that, the other performed the stacking work of two men. Second supporting paragraph (with italicized Transition and Topic Sentence) I would not have minded the difficulty of the work so much if the pay had not been so poor. I was paid the minimum wage of that time, two dollars an hour, plus the minimum of a nickel extra for working the night shift. Because of the low salary, I felt compelled to get as much overtime pay as possible. Everything over eight hours a night was time-and-a-half, so I typically worked twelve hours a night. On Friday I would sometimes work straight through until Saturday at noon — eighteen hours. I averaged over sixty hours a week but did not take home much more than one hundred dollars. Third supporting paragraph (with italicized Transition and Topic Sentence) But even more than the low pay, what upset me about my apple plant job was the working conditions. Our humorless supervisor cared only about his production record for each night and tried to keep the assembly line moving at a breakneck pace. During work I was limited to two ten-minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. Most of my time was spent outside on the truck loading dock in near-zero-degree temperatures. The steel floors of the trucks were like ice; the quickly penetrating cold made my feet feel like stone. I had no shared interests with the man I loaded cartons with, and so I had to work without job companionship. And after the production line shut down and most people left, I had to spend two hours alone scrubbing clean the apple vats, which were coated with a sticky residue. Concluding paragraph I stayed on the job for five months, hating all the while the difficulty of the work, the poor money, and the conditions under which I worked. By the time I quit, I was determined never to do such degrading work again. *From English Skills with Readings by John Langan The Essay in Three Parts Introduction: A paragraph that gets things started and reveals to the reader what they’re in for Attention-getter: a question, quotation, statistic, definition, etc. Introduction to the topic/background on the topic The thesis statement (your position on the topic) and an outline of support (the reasons that back your position) Body: Several paragraphs that support the thesis statement with evidence and analysis Topic sentence: the main idea of the paragraph Supporting information that expands on and backs up the topic sentence: Explains, illustrates, and discusses/interprets quotations, statistics, etc. that provide evidence to support the main idea of the paragraph (and by extension, the thesis) (Sometimes) a concluding thought about the main idea of the paragraph or a transition to the next paragraph Conclusion: A paragraph that wraps things up—tells the readers what you told them and brings things to a logical end Restatement of the thesis statement Restatement of supporting ideas A final thought that wraps up the essay