Do you believe it is better for oppressed groups to revolt against the existing
Do you believe it is better for oppressed groups to revolt against the existing power structure or to work within the existing system to address their concerns?
Do you believe the poor are poor because they have a distinct culture or lifestyle?
When you make major decisions, which of the following value orientations do you tend to use: theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political, or religious?
Assignment
Our major essay for the course is a chance to come up with your own t
Assignment
Our major essay for the course is a chance to come up with your own topic, inspired by our course theme and the texts we’ve encountered so far. At this point, something has likely caught your interest and perhaps sparked an idea. This essay is a chance to develop and pursue that idea (or “hunch”) through your own creative focus.
Along the way, this assignment will help you gain practice in forming a working thesis (or thesis question) which focuses your essay, developing/evolving that thesis for the essay, developing complex claims, providing evidence, offering insightful analysis, conducting academic research, integrating a mix of sources to use for your own thinking/analysis, and citing those sources in MLA format (9th edition).
Finding a Topic Focus
The focus of your final essay project should examine a particular subject or theme regarding visual rhetoric. Along the way, you are required to make use of two of the major class readings: Lakoff, Sontag, De Zengotita, Thompson. A particular claim or concept from one of these authors is likely the place to start. That interesting idea/concept/claim is something that you can trace and consider further in a project of your own. Likewise, return to the Short Essay Responses we’ve written. Particular analysis you’ve started in one of those responses could be extended into a larger project.
Whatever you decide to pursue, the project should be original and seek to develop new knowledge and new insights for readers. You main aim for the paper is conduct analysis to develop an insightful argument (or theory/thesis) for readers, making use of source material along the way to borrow and extend their ideas (and, with your research, provide additional context or concepts to develop your discussion).
Building Conversation with Sources
As you develop your essay, you are required to make use of a mix of sources to help you evolve your thesis (or pursue an answer to your thesis question). At least two sources should be from our class texts. The other sources will be of your own choosing, gathered through independent research. You are required to build conversation with at least five credible sources for the essay.
Your work with sources offers you an opportunity to apply, borrow, test, and extend ideas and insights brought up by that author/speaker for your own writing project. Essentially, you want to use sources along the way to help you set up what you want to say and build your analysis.
In his book, Rewriting, Joseph Harris uses the term “forwarding” to describe this kind of work with another text. Reading his chapter on “forwarding” will help you consider how you might use sources to introduce ideas and concepts for you to think with. These moves are described by Harris as “borrowing” and “extending.” In these cases, you don’t sacrifice your thinking for what another author said. Instead, you make use of an idea, term, or concept from that author to help you think through your subject and, along the way, “put your own spin on the terms or concepts that you take from other texts” (Harris 39). By doing this, you can bring in a source to do more than just be an “expert” or an “answer.” A more interesting approach is to use sources to help spark your analysis and your thinking through of the subject you are writing about. This also offers you an opportunity to add to the intellectual conversation started by the texts – which is, essentially, the main goal of this writing project.
Assignment Details
Getting a Thesis
Set up your essay to be an exploration of an initial guiding claim or thinking question that is complex and contains tension (a need for discussion – something that resists easy or predictable answers). This will be your working thesis which you develop and evolve for the essay. Along the way, you want to offer readers evidence and analysis to help think through and develop your guiding claim or question.
Draft 1 is all about trying to find and shape your working thesis. Your essay should discuss some aspect of visual rhetoric, inspired by our coursework so far, and aim to offer readers ideas and theories which add to (extend) the intellectual conversation started by the sources you’re working with.
In essence, you want your writing project to be based in critical thinking, building knowledge, and, most importantly, of genuine interest to you; this means going beyond what you already know or have answers to. The goal is not to persuade your audience about an issue; rather, you should develop a discussion that exploresan original/complex idea or question (consider the difference). Your topic should be something that calls for genuine discussion, through the form of an essay, with multiple perspectives in mind. Your writing should be a discovery for you and your readers, not a dictation of finished thinking or presentation of your opinion only. Writing from a place of genuine inquiry will help you see a need for gathering outside sources and sustain your development of a thesis for readers to take away.
Developing Analysis
A big part of writing a strong academic essay is exploring your central idea (or thinking question) through thoughtful analysis and reflection rather than pro/con or opinion-based writing.
Analysis can
explore a significant tension or trend not commonly noticed,
view an idea or concept from multiple perspectives,
consider implications or answer “so what?”,
examine underlying assumptions in a text or idea,
apply a text or theory as a lens, or
make intellectual moves which help the writer understand his or her topic better.
Consider how analysis works as a step-by-step process: breaking your subject into parts, looking for patterns, making the implicit explicit, forming questions and tentative claims, asking “so what?,” etc.
Finding Evidence and Using Sources (Analytically)
Part of this assignment is for you to gather your own sources to be in conversation with. The sources that you bring into the essay should act as a lens for you to test, develop, complicate, and evolve your initial claim or question you are setting up early on. Use of sources should analytical so you do more than just bring in the source to provide facts or “proof” for points you already know to be true.
Our Week 4 Module will discuss tips for gathering credible sources for your essay. Any medium is fair game, as long as you can justify its credibility as evidence in your paper (this includes film, music, newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, TV shows, online clips and interviews, etc). Keep in mind that online resources are often not very credible nor scholarly valuable – use the open web with caution. Wikipedia, for instance, is not considered a scholarly source.
Along with sources that are more theoretic or “academic,” you’ll want source material that functions as evidence which you can analyze as well. For instance, if you were exploring the interface design of Instagram considering the claims of Lakoff and Sontag, actual Instagram posts would be representative examples you could cite and analyze in depth.
Regarding the research you need to conduct, don’t forget the great resources you have here on campus. A short conversation with a research librarian will save you a lot of time as you plan your draft.
Genre, Audience, and Purpose
Stylistically, you are in the mode of the expository essay, but it does not have to carry a strict academic tone; there is plenty of room in this assignment for a personal voice, if you wish. In other words, it’s definitely okay to use “I” in your paper. “I” in this case is a synthesis of your observations and the social, cultural, historical, personal contexts you are writing from. Personal experience is also okay to use as evidence for your claims, however, it cannot be your only evidence.
Overall, remember that it is important to fully describe, explain, and theorize for an intended audience of interested academic readers. Imagine your audience expecting and wanting ideas, insights, and complexities that are original and satisfying to read. Keeping this in mind will help you stay in the realm of building a larger idea or theory for readers as the essay develops (a clear take-away idea/theory which answers “so what?” for readers by the end of the essay).
Incorporating a Visual Element
Given the overall focus, your essay project should incorporate some visual element to go along with your discussion. Working in the visual mode, in addition to print, will allow you to illustrate your ideas and deepen your analysis of evidence.
This visual element could be as simple as incorporating images into your essay. You could also do a fieldwork photography project. Or, you could develop other visual elements, of your choice, to augment the reading process. How you tackle this aspect of the essay is up to you, but you should include some visual mode to your essay.
Checklist
Draft 1 should reveal an attempt at all of the following requirements:
Your draft should be a minimum of 6 full double-spaced pages with 1’’ side margins, 1” header and footer margins, Times New Roman, 12 pt font.
This draft should include a strong working thesis to help focus your essay; this is a main complex claim or thinking question you set up early on and develop/refine/complicate as the paper unfolds. Your claims should represent complexity in thinking through your ideas and need to be supported by detailed reasons and evidence.
Bring in at least five sources into your essay that you are “in conversation with.” At least two sources must from our class readings (Lakoff, Sontag, De Zengotita, Thompson). Any other texts included in the paper can be of your own choosing. Keep in mind that you want your sources to be credible, or you have to make them credible through your own analysis. Try not to get carried away with sources – you don’t want them to take control of the essay (no more than 8).
As you incorporate your sources, accurately summarize the ideas, theories, terms, or concepts you are using from that source to offer context (making sure your summary is understandable to a reader who is not familiar with the source you’re introducing).
Add to and help develop the ideas from the sources you bring in to help you introduce your own thinkingabout the topic you are writing about. Your sources should be a springboard for your own claims, questions, and analysis. In other words, you must “do something” with your sources. Be sure to clarify the meaning of the material you have quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and explain its significance in light of your evolving thesis.
Support your claims with reasoning and evidence – making sure to link the evidence to the claim(s). You’ll want to include a few of the various kinds of evidence available to analytical writers.
Try to acknowledge “the other side,” or multiple perspectives, so readers can see you addressing possible conflicting evidence or counter arguments (tension) which complicates your thesis (and helps it evolve).
As you move toward the conclusion, address the “so what?” question for your thesis.
Clearly and explicitly explain your chain of reasoning – the thought-connections you are making throughout your draft between claims, evidence, & sources. The more clearly you explain connections to your readers, the more your readers will be able to follow your thinking.
Cite all sources in MLA format (in text), in addition to a Works Cited page. Use Purdue OWL.Links to an external site.
Proofread and edit your draft before turning it in. Be sure that you have avoided all forms of plagiarism, including the use of AI generated writing.
Purpose
To choose a scientific research study related to Units 6 and/or 7 that y
Purpose
To choose a scientific research study related to Units 6 and/or 7 that you just studied this week. Next purpose is to learn how to find the golden lines in each section of your research study. Golden lines are just the sentences you think are important when reading a research article. With a little bit of practice, you will become an expert at choosing studies that interest you and pick your golden lines. Read the assignment details below thoroughly before you start your work.
Resource
Proquest Databases are an excellent resource for this Class. Watch a Proquest Video and learn how to find scholarly journals. There are several other databases available through our Shatford Library Do not choose magazine articles and news briefs for this assignment.
Steps
Locate your research study. Choose one that really interests you. Read the abstract section.
Start finding a golden line in each paragraph.
A golden line is usually a sentence in a paragraph that stands out to you as important.
Continue to read the entire article and find golden lines in each of the sections.
While completing this assignment, you may feel the need to choose a different article than the one you chose earlier. That is perfectly fine.
You are not writing anything new but simply learning how to read a scientific article and organize it your way.
Submission
You now have to organize all the golden lines into one cohesive paper. Remember that you are creating anything new but simply figuring out how to pick a research study and read it thoroughly.
Use the same headings used in your chosen research paper. And, add your name as the author.
Read the paper you have now written once more. Does it capture the content accurately? Make changes as necessary.
Upload the working link to your research paper followed by your organized list of golden lines.
The argument asks the question: Why does it seem that the poor are getting poore
The argument asks the question: Why does it seem that the poor are getting poorer?. Please follow all instructions included.
you must research media analysis, will analyze the evolution and presentation of
you must research media analysis, will analyze the evolution and presentation of a news story over time and around the globe.
i chose engine cover falls off on southwest boeing plane during takeoff in denver usa as my event.
For this assignment, you will create an educational flyer on a single current hu
For this assignment, you will create an educational flyer on a single current human rights issue. You are free to choose a human rights issue that interests you from UN Human Rights list HERE. Gun rights pro/con and abortion pro/con cannot be used. The flyer topic also needs to be based on a current issue, not a historical event.
The flyer will be created in Microsoft Word. The first page of your Word document will be the flyer; the flyer is to be one page in length only. The second page of your Word document will contain your 7 sentences (see below) and MLA formatted works cited page including your researched information and image sources. While you will include researched support, the majority (80%) of the flyer’s text content must be in your own original words. Researched support must be specific (not general) such as specific examples, data, and so on.
The flyer must include:
2 images only, no more and no less. A picture of a quote is not considered an image.
At least 7 sentences of text including a topic sentence identifying and explaining the human rights issue, support, and solutions for the problem that the flyer’s readers can enact.
Be sure to study the Assignment Workshop for information on using credible sources. Cite information source(s) and all images.
Please see this guide for how to format your sources.
Submit the assignment as one file only in either Word or PDF file format.
“What’s in My Bag” Speech
Goal: To ease your apprehension, facilitate enjoyment,
“What’s in My Bag” Speech
Goal: To ease your apprehension, facilitate enjoyment, and provide for an atmosphere where you learn about yourself and one another.
Assignment: Prepare and present a short speech (2 – 3 minutes ONLY). Fill the bag with three items. The bag and each item chosen should symbolize something about your life:
—the first item should represent something from your past
—the second item represents the present
—the third item represents something about your future
The bag itself should also symbolize something of significance about you. You will display each item one at a time and explain how each item and the bag exemplify you and your life.
The items should be innovative and can be as abstract as you wish as long as you clarify for your audience how it relates to you or a significant situation. Give your audience insight into your interests, hobbies, ambitions, goals, concerns, and so forth. Keep in mind that your objects should be large enough to be seen from the back of the room. Passing around objects serves only as a distraction to you and your audience.
Also, keep in mind that textbooks, notebooks, pictures, and class schedules may be very common and trite. Strive to be creative.
Notes are acceptable. Practice your speech at least five times to be sure you are within the time limit.
Practice so you do NOT ramble.
Innovative Examples: A bag of coffee bought in Venezuela (enroute home from serving in Desert Storm); a stuffed cow (she claimed to be bull-headed); a map (she claimed to feel lost in life and is searching for direction); an old security blanket (she always will be looking for reassurance); and a brick (to represent a solid marriage). The bag be any – from a pillow case to a decorated grocery bag, as long as it represents something to you.
Evaluation: Speeches will be constructively evaluated on vocal quality, posture, absence of verbal fillers, organization of presentation, eye contact, and the originality and depth of your discussion of each item. The evaluation provides feedback on your strengths and weaknesses in speech preparation and delivery so you can set goals for yourself this semester.
What to Submit the Day of Your Speech
The complete sentence and detailed outline as shown below. Use the exact format and headings of Introduction, Body and Conclusion. 1 page only.
TYPED outline should include complete sentences, excellent structure and clarity. .5 to 1 inch margins acceptable, single space, 12-point font, and name, course/section number.
Introduction
Catch the audience’s attention. Powerful communication quote or short story to get audience interested.
State your name, include a nice greeting and explain the bag’s significance.
Body
Past item (Two – four complete sentences that explain your past item)
Present item (Two – four complete sentences that explain your present item)
Future item (Two – four complete sentences that explain your future item)
Conclusion
Brief summary of your speech.
End with power! Quote or memorable thought.
Make sure you practice and time yourself so that the speech fits the time requirements of the assignment. Points will be deducted for going over the 2 -3 minute time limit.
Submit the Speech Presentation video and outline to this dropbox.
You are required to submit the “What’s in My Bag Speech” Presentation in the following format (it will not be graded otherwise)::
Record the speech. Go to www.YouTube.com and create a free account. Upload your speech video and select “Unlisted” (this means only people with the link can view the speech. Do not list it as “Private” or I will not be able to view the video. Once the video has uploaded to YouTube, you will see a link to the video. Copy and past the link into a Word doc and submit the Word doc to the dropbox. Review your submission to ensure that the link works.
NOTE: Do not submit the speech presentation as a video file. You must submit it as a YouTube link or it will not be graded.
DIRECTIONS: WRITE A 3-5
PAGE RESEARCH-BASED ESSAY USING THE MLA FORMAT INCLUDIN
DIRECTIONS: WRITE A 3-5
PAGE RESEARCH-BASED ESSAY USING THE MLA FORMAT INCLUDING A WORKS CITED PAGE &
IN-TEXT CITATIONS. USE THIRD-PERSON POINT OF VIEW REFERENCES. GIVE THE ESSAY A CREATIVE TITLE. THIS FINAL ESSAY IS WORTH 20% OF THE OVERALL COURSE GPA.
THE
TURNITIN/SAFE ASSIGN RANGE FOR OUTSIDE CONTENT/RESEARCH IS 20-25%. THIS MEANS 75% OF THE ESSAY SHOULD BE YOUR ORIGINAL WRITING. IF
YOUR PERCENTAGE IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER, YOU WILL BE GIVEN ONE OPPORTUNITY TO
REVISE AND RESUBMIT FOR GRADING.
A MINIMUM
OF 4 OUTSIDE SOURCES MUST BE
INCLUDED AS FOLLOWS: A SCHOLARLY
JOURNAL, A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, A WEBSITE, AND A BOOK. E-BOOKS
ARE ACCEPTABLE. ONE IN-TEXT CITATION IS
REQUIRED FROM EACH SOURCE. PLEASE
DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA AS IT IS NOT CONSIDERED A CREDIBLE ACADEMIC SOURCE. GALILEO IS THE ATC LIBRARY DATABASE WHERE YOU
CAN SEARCH TO FIND SPECIFIC TYPES OF SOURCES. THERE IS A LINK FOR IT IN
BLACKBOARD AND ON THE ATC WEBSITE UNDER LIBRARY.
Your assignment: Research a contemporary social issue connected in some way to T
Your assignment: Research a contemporary social issue connected in some way to The Other Wes Moore and make a case for something to be done to address that issue in order to improve the lives of other people.
Write a persuasive essay of 750 words or more which integrates passages of The Other Wes Moore and a minimum of three other sources drawn from a specific mixture of required source material types as assigned below.
You may develop a paper that focuses either on a personal plan of action you will pursue or a plan of action you feel others should pursue or that you feel an agency or organization should pursue.
The first step toward accomplishing the goal of this project should be to read Tavis Smiley’s “A Call to Action” attached to the end of Moore’s book then examine the resource guide following Smiley’s message. These sources should provide you with inspiration to develop an idea of your own to address. In the paper you write, you must show not just that you have learned about an issue but that you can make a case for something to be done about it / connected to it, either something that you feel someone (or some group) outside yourself must do or something that you feel you must do personally to address this issue and improve the lives of others by expanding their possibility to achieve.
When you’ve found your topic for this paper, send your idea to me via the proposal submission box you’ll find here in Canvas and briefly explain what you want to do with your project (you’ll need a few sentences to explain what the issue is and what you will argue).
In your proposal, you’ll explain how this idea connects to the book we’ve been reading. In the essay you eventually write, you’ll need to incorporate passages of the book, so you should think about these connections during the planning stages of this project.
Once you have a topic approved, you’ll need to begin finding sources to incorporate into the paper. Please remember that these sources are not the important parts of the discussion—your own ideas are much more important! Treat all sources as supplementary materials and do not use them to do the work you should be doing or to make the case you should be making. Your sources are due early, too. You’ll need to have them to me by no later than 6:00 AM on Monday, April 11.
Your first source, should, of course, be The Other Wes Moore. You’ll need to directly quote something from this book to receive credit on this assignment.
You’ll also need one credible source found online—but all of your source material cannot come directly from the web. Make sure you are researching using the specific mixture of source materials listed on this assignment overview!
In addition to the book and something found online, you’ll need to go to either the Opposing Viewpoints or the Issues and Perspectives Database (available from our library—click on the LIBRARY RESOURCES tab on the left side of the screen and then click DATABASES on the library’s home page) and find some resource there that you can incorporate into your paper.
You’ll also need to find a “peer reviewed journal article” about this issue using EBSCO. You’ll download a PDF of this article and submit it for separate credit.
Please note that for all your sources, all you need is a “loose connection”—the only requirement is that it be connected in some way—you don’t necessarily have to find one that is “saying what you are saying”—you just need to find “something to bring in. Students are generally confused about how sources are used in college papers: they are used as SUPPLEMENTS to YOUR IDEAS.
Please note that these are minimum requirements and if you want to bring in more of any one type of material you may do so as long as these minimums are met. The four sources above must be incorporated into your paper. Please note, also, that your own voice and your own ideas should be the dominant force in this paper. We use sources as SUPPLEMENTS to our own ideas in college writing. This may be very different from how you normally think of doing a “research paper.” Remember the “80 / 20 rule” which says that 80% of the paper should be YOUR IDEAS and only 20% (or less) should be “other people’s ideas.” As always, you may use first person (“I”) in this paper.
Your paper must also contain MLA in-text citations and an MLA Works Cited page. Remember, too, that your rough draft MUST contain a “best guess” Works Cited page (give it your best try and hopefully, your peer partner can set you on the right track where necessary).
This was my purposal
Many people are stuck in poverty from one generation to the next. “The Other Wes Moore” shows how some people break free while others don’t, due to education and support they receive.I want to help break the cycle of poverty by focusing on education and mentorship for young people who need it most. This means giving them the resources they need to succeed.
Today?Why Study Critical Theory Today?
Comprehensive Final Assignment: Prompt En
Today?Why Study Critical Theory Today?
Comprehensive Final Assignment: Prompt Engineering Exercise and Reflective Essay
Objective: Engage in a prompt engineering exercise with ChatGPT to explore literary theory. Use the insights gained to inform a reflective essay on the relevance and impact of studying critical theory alongside literature.
Part 1: Prompt Engineering Exercise with ChatGPT
Instructions:
Conducting the Exercise:
Start by initiating a detailed conversation with ChatGPT focused on exploring various aspects of literary theory.
Develop at least 10 prompts (bare minimum) that critically examine different theoretical perspectives studied in class, their applications, and their impacts.
Documenting the Conversation:
Record your conversation by taking clear and legible screenshots of the entire dialogue or copy and paste the conversation into a document.
Save this document as a PDF to preserve the conversation formatting.
Reflection on the Exercise:
After completing the conversation, write a reflection on the insights you gained, how they might influence your understanding of literary theory, and their application to literature.
Reflect on what this exercise has taught you about prompt engineering and the ethical uses of AI.
Part 2: Reflective Essay on Literary Theory
Instructions:
Essay Focus:
Use the insights from your prompt engineering exercise to compose a reflective essay on the significance of studying literary and critical theory alongside literature.
Incorporate specific examples and insights from your prompt engineering exercise and discussions from our course.
Writing Guidelines:
Target an essay of 1000-1500 words.
Structure your essay into an introduction, body, and conclusion sections, providing a thorough analysis and discussion.
Conclude with your personal stance on the value of studying literary theory.
Include your word count at the end of the essay. In your conclusion paragraph, mention the word Frankenstein.
Submission Instructions:
Part 1 (Prompt Engineering Conversation): Upload the PDF of your conversation to the designated platform (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox) and share the file or link with me by including my email address in the sharing settings. Alternatively, submit the document through our Learning Management System if applicable.
Part 2 (Reflective Essay): Submit your essay as a separate document alongside your conversation PDF.
Rubric for Final Assignment:
Prompt Engineering Exercise (50 Points):
Depth and complexity of prompts (25 points)
Quality of documentation and depth of reflective insights (25 points)
Reflective Essay (100 Points):
Integration and depth of insights (30 points)
Clarity, structure, and argumentation of essay (30 points)
Originality and depth of personal reflection (30 points)
Grammar and style (10 points)
Overall Engagement and Honesty (50 points):
Engagement with the task and process (25 points)
Honesty and authenticity in personal reflections (25 points)
Integrity and Authenticity:
I will use GPTZero and other AI detection software to ensure the honesty and authenticity of your submissions. It’s important that your work is original.
AI tools like ChatGPT are permitted to edit and revise your original work. Grammarly, Quillbot, Gemini, and ClaudeAI are also acceptable for improving your writing.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Demonstrate the ability to use AI tools for academic research and exploration of literary theory.
Synthesize insights from AI engagement into a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between literary theory and literature.
Exhibit critical thinking and reflective skills in a comprehensive essay.
Engage in self-reflection and articulate a personal viewpoint on studying literary theory.