Category: English

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Instructions
Project Description: 
All writing is a conversation. Authors talkin

Instructions
Project Description: 
All writing is a conversation. Authors talking to each other between time and space are influenced by different factors, positions, ideas, and beliefs. As we’ve read about, rhetorical analysis is one of the methods for determining contexts that inform and influence authors, audiences, and the texts being broadcast between them. Remember: rhetoric is the art of finding the best available means of persuasion. Those means include factors related to what other people are saying, thinking, and feeling. 
The best way to practice close reading and working with sources to determine the state of a conversation in order to understand both the issue and how it maps over the elements of the rhetorical triangle is to examine controversy or arguments which inherently contains different positions, stakeholders, ideas, and perspectives. To simplify: the ability to summarize multiple perspectives on an issue is a key writing skill. You will select a controversy or public argument (perhaps using examples found in the discussion board) and write an essay that summarizes, contextualizes, synthesizes, and documents several perspectives found doing secondary research. 
In this essay you will summarize different perspectives relating to your chosen controversy, stating clearly what the positions are (they do not, and should not, all agree with each other) and then highlighting the relationships among them, trying to produce a “big picture” view on the issue. Imagine you are writing this summary for an audience who is curious and perhaps even concerned, but not totally informed on the controversy. Your job is to provide an unbiased summary of the different perspectives on the controversy of your choosing.  
Project Details: 
To begin, you should provide an overview of the context and background of this controversy and explain to readers the significance of the issue. You may want to explain why or how this issue became a controversy, how the results of this issue effects stakeholders and readers, and why readers should care about these perspectives. 
In 4 to 6 pages of writing, summarize the different perspectives ranging across the entire field of the controversy or the various proposed solutions to the controversy: what should be done to fix the problem? What factors influence or hinder solutions? Why does the central issue fueling the controversy occur in the first place?  
To provide a full range of perspectives on the controversy, cite at least four sources that do not all agree. Your goal is to summarize the perspectives for an uninformed reader. Summarize each source’s most compelling arguments without agreeing or disagreeing. Do not present a one-sided view of the various positions, even if you strongly disagree (or strongly agree!) with the authors of those sources. Your job is to avoid bias and present a neutral summary of the issue. 
Requirements: 
4 – 6 double-spaced pages of writing in 12pt Times New Roman font 
Cite at least four sources: one peer-reviewed scholarly source from an academic journal, two sources from reputable venues like a newspaper or magazine, one visual source, and a 4th source of your own choosing. These sources should not all agree 
MLA or APA style in-text citations and attributions for direct quotes 
An MLA or APA style works cited page at the end of your essay 

This is a Rogerian Argument Essay. 
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This is a Rogerian Argument Essay. 
I inserted the draft essay to follow. 
Double-check your essay before submission. 
Do you ask a neutral open-ended policy question in the introduction?
Do you present the two sides of the debate in a neutral, unbiased manner? 
Do you offer a clear statement of a middle ground position and the benefits of adopting it after presenting the two sides of the debate?
Do you stay consistently in third-person grammatical point of view?
Do you discuss the required sources? Have you met the library research requirement? 
Is the essay formatting in MLA style and are the sources cited within the text and on the corresponding Works Cited list?
Did you proofread your essay for sentence structure, spelling and punctuation?
Is your essay between 1,000 and 1,500 words in length?  
Sources : 
Brown, August. “Hip-Hop Music Raises Awareness about Mental Illness.” Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2024. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/AGHUHZ537303978/OVIC?u=lincclin_tcc&sid=bookmarkOVIC&xid=661f8a27. Accessed 29 June 2024. Originally published as “Young rappers are getting honest about doing battle with depression, drug addiction and suicide,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2018.
Cox, Hannah. “Harvard Researchers Say This One Tiny Life Adjustment Can Reduce Depression Risk.” Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2024. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/HOBIPO453821332/OVIC?u=lincclin_tcc&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=3ab207b9. Accessed 29 June 2024. Originally published as “Harvard Researchers Say This One Tiny Life Adjustment Can Reduce Depression Risk,” Foundation for Economic Education, 10 June 2021.
Jamison, Kay Redfield. “The Stigma of Mental Illness Must Be Overcome.” Mental Health, edited by Ann Quigley, Greenhaven Press, 2007. Current Controversies. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010054249/OVIC?u=lincclin_tcc&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=f0ca5e1c. Accessed 29 June 2024. Originally published as “The Many Stigmas of Mental Illness,” The Lancet, 11 Feb. 2006.

Having read the essay in the textbook (also posted in Moodle Week 4), “A Peacefu

Having read the essay in the textbook (also posted in Moodle Week 4), “A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun” by Linda Hasselstrom, write a 200 word essay considering the following questions: Why is a woman who travels alone believed to be more vulnerable than a man who does the same? What other precautions besides avoiding bars, approaching her car carefully, and locking doors and windows can a woman traveling alone observe? What do you think of the notion that carrying a gun is one way for women to achieve equality with men? Why does the author express sorrow at the thought that carrying weapons might be the only way women can achieve equality with men?

it’s a research essay. my topic for this is essay is how does climate change ef

it’s a research essay. my topic for this is essay is how does climate change effect mental health in young people. please stay on topic. I’ll send you assignments details.

Read the interview (on the Handouts page) with David Henry Hwang and use it to h

Read the interview (on the Handouts page) with David Henry Hwang and use it to help you discuss what you see as an important theme in M. Butterfly.
Since you’ve already read and discussed the play, you should already have some possible themes in mind. Thus, you don’t necessarily have to choose a theme that Hwang and the interviewer talk about as the “important” theme in your paper. But you do have to include some of what Hwang says to support the point you make in your paper. 
Be sure that, whatever theme you identify, in your thesis the theme is very specifically narrowed down. In other words, don’t just say something like the theme is role-playing or stereotyping or something general like that. State precisely what the play is saying about role-playing (or whatever theme you identify).
You should not be overly dependent on any source(s). Your main goal is to put forth your own thesis and to support your thesis from the evidence found in the play. You should use these secondary sources where they fit into the framework of your own argument. Do not try to make your argument fit into the framework of the sources.
And remember that you must have a Works Cited at the end of your paper. You’ll  see a link on the handouts page to “Modified Guidelines for MLA Citations in Research Papers.” You’ll need to follow this when you work the borrowed material into your paper.

Select a possible subject for your review—“a performance, a book, a website, a c

Select a possible subject for your review—“a performance, a book, a website, a consumer product, a film, whatever” (p. 241)—and use your writing journal assignment this week to uncover what you really feel and want to say about the subject of your review. Take seriously what our text says on page 243: “The best inquiry-based pojects begin when you’re not quite sure what you think and want to explore a topic to find out.” To help you with that, respond to each of the questions in the “Talking it Through” activity on pages 250-251.
Be sure to write for a few minutes in response to each question. Your journal should be at least 400 words in your journal this week.
Do NOT answer the last question by saying something like, “Everyone’s entitled to his or her own opinion. People are free to like or not like what I’m reviewing.” This is where the aggressiveness must come in. Explain why those who disagree with you are wrong. What are they missing? If you don’t yet know what to say in response to those who disagree, acknowledge that honestly. Before you write your first draft, you’ll need to figure out what to say in response to those who see things differently. If you can’t, then maybe you need to change your mind about your review subject.

Step 1: Reflect and Brainstorm
Consider your past writing experiences. Look back

Step 1: Reflect and Brainstorm
Consider your past writing experiences. Look back and think critically (carefully, deliberately, and methodically) about your past experiences composing and writing, and how you feel about writing as a result. 
Brainstorm ideas for your reflection, keeping in mind that roughly half of your reflection should be spent both “Looking Back” and “Looking Forward.” Use the following questions to help you generate (invent) ideas. Choose the questions that resonate with you; you do not need to cover all of the questions but you should have a fairly equal balance between the two categories. 
Looking Back
Looking Forward
How would you describe your writing process? What parts of the process are strengths? Where would you like to improve? 
What kinds of writing do you have experience with? Describe those experiences. 
What kinds of technology have you used for writing and research including generative AI such as ChatGPT and Grammarly? What technologies are most helpful, and what impede your writing? What works well for you, and what are you challenged by?
What kinds of writing are part of your workplace? Your social life? Your academic life?
How confident do you feel about those types of writing? Why do you feel that way?
What kinds of writing habits have you developed? Which habits help you? Which habits hold you back?
How have the perceptions of others (such as teachers or peers) about your writing impacted your identity as a writer?
How do you feel about yourself as a writer? What is your current identity as a writer/composer?
enre: Reflective essay
Audience: External readers in this course (your classmates, instructor, and Writing Mentor)
Length: At least 500 words (around 250 each for “Looking Back” and “Looking Forward”) 
Format: Either PDF or Microsoft Word-compatible
Multimodality: 1-2 visual examples
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you will present a policy claim where you argue for or against a change of some

you will present a policy claim where you argue for or against a change of some kind. at least 750 words.
Topic to avoid:
The death penalty
Euthanasia or self-assisted death
Abortion 
The (il)legalization of drugs (e.g. marijuana) 
Religion or religious readings (e.g. existence of a higher order/being, or life after death)
Gun rights/rules
Global warming 

Argumentative Essay
Becoming a scholar means entering into academic and
scholar

Argumentative Essay
Becoming a scholar means entering into academic and
scholarly conversations.
Now that you have written a rhetorical analysis, it is now
time to take those skills and apply them to a longer essay where you are
combining rhetorical analysis with developing your own thesis and argument.
Part of what you will be doing in this assignment is entering the academic
conversation and responding to what you have read. This includes not only
analyzing the rhetorics of what you have read, but developing your own
rhetorical style and voice to respond in conversation to others. This will
require you to be able to analyze what you are reading critically, formulate
your own thesis, and provide a claim that is supported.
For this essay, I want you to write an essay that is
responding to one of the texts we’ve read this far in the semester. You are
free to choose from the prompts I’ve listed below and to put any of the texts
we’ve read into conversation in your essay. You are required to quote, to use
MLA in-text citations, and to have a properly formatted MLA Works Cited paper.
Pertinent Course Objectives
Analyze rhetorical strategies, content, and contexts in a
variety of non-fiction texts written by authors representing and reflective of
students in the classroom, including those written by Black, Indigenous,
Latinx, and People of Color and the LGBTQ+ community.
Consider uses of tone in relation to audience and purpose.
Find and engage sources in writings, including thesis
writing, summarizing, paraphrases, and integrating quoted materials.
Practice citation conventions systematically.
Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting,
reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing.
Learn to give and to act on productive feedback to works in
progress.
Practice reading and composing in more than one genre to
understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’
practices and purposes.
Practice writing moves like problem-solving, posing
questions, analyzing, interpreting, generalizing, without stereotyping, and
generating examples.
Lectures
Read
For this essay you will be putting two texts from the four
we have read into conversation with each other. I am widening the reading to
include an optional, additional reading, Ibram X. Kendi’s
“Definitions” on pgs. 529-534. It is a short, fast read and gives you
more texts to respond to and more options of prompts to choose from. You do not
have to read Kendi’s “Definitions,” but it is in conversation with
the other texts we are reading and gives you another text to respond to. I highly
encourage you to read it.
In addition, please refer to Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 6 from
your textbook.
Essay Prompts (Pick one)
For your essay you must pick between one of these prompts
regarding the readings we’ve done thus far in the semester:
Prompt #1 (This will require you to read
“Definitions” by Ibram X. Kendi, pgs. 529-534 and put it into
conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones’ “Scholl Segregation, the Continuing
Tragedy of Ferguson,” pgs. 499-517:
Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones might have a lot to say to one
another on the topic of manifestations of racism. Reread both essays,
considering how Kendi’s concepts of “antiracist” work might apply to
the deeply troubling situation in Ferguson that Hannah-Jones describes. How do
Kendi’s concepts help you understand what happened there? What steps toward
greater equity might Kendi offer, given the challenges that Hannah-Jones
describes? What can you conclude, based on your findings?
Prompt #2 (This will require you to compare Ehrenreich and
hooks):
Both Ehrenreich and bell hooks analyze the ways popular
understandings of poverty often blame the poor. Place these authors’ ideas in
conversation in an essay in which you make an argument about the ways policy
making and popular culture often go hand in hand to produce ideas about
inequality. What solutions does each author offer, and what do you make of
those solutions?
Prompt #3 (This will require you to compare Ehrenreich and
Reich)
Just as Ehrenreich critiques writer Michael Harrington for
turning poor people into “others,” Robert B. Reich examines the ways
the “working poor” are often blamed for the very conditions that keep
them in poverty. Write an essay in which you analyze the way each author
presents the origins of these ideas and their current iterations. What
conclusions can you draw about economics and identity in our culture? What
solutions would you propose, if any, and why?
Prompt #4 (This will require you to read
“Definitions” by Ibram X. Kendi, pgs. 529-534 and put it into
conversation with hooks)
hooks, like Ibram X. Kendi is committed to understanding the
many subtle ways we learn who “counts” in our society and who
doesn’t. Write an essay in which you apply Kendi’s analysis of the dynamics of
discrimination to analyze hooks’ examples, and draw your own conclusions about
the ways privilege works to reinforce economic class stereotypes. Given both
authors’ insights, how might we change these assumptions?
Essay Guidelines
4 – 6 pages, not including Works Cited page
No more than 10% TurnItIn.Com matching content
If your matching content is higher than 10% I will not
accept it. Please make sure to check you percentage and ensure that you do not
have too much quoted material or matching material to others. If your essay is
submitted and has a high matching content it will be flagged as plagiarized and
you may be flagged as plagiarizing. I take plagiarism very seriously so do not
attempt to slip it by. It is not worth it.
Of note: If it is flagging quoted material from your texts,
this is a clue that you are not doing enough analysis. Your work in this essay
is to analyze what the author is doing, and that means I should hear YOUR
voice.
Your text should have zero AI generated material. I check
this across multiple platforms, so please do not use AI–I will not accept your
paper and you will receive a zero.
Use the text throughout your essay to support your analysis
This means if you are talking about the author’s claims, for
example, you should include/show an example of what you think is the author’s
claim. This should be quoted material using MLA citations. Please read the book
that illustrates how to quote, follow the links I’ve provided in the Helpful
Resources module, or use one of the suggested texts that support MLA
guidelines.
Use 3rd person, this means do not use “I” at all
in your paper.
Use present tense
Some other helpful guidelines regarding college level
academic writing. These are all things you need to make sure you are doing in
your paper.
Use different sentence lengths and sentence types
Avoid sentence construction errors (fragments, comma
splices, run-ons)
Make sure your essay is thesis driven
Thesis at the end of your Introduction
Topic Sentence for each body paragraph
One topic/issue/idea per body paragraph
Use the quote sandwich: Introduce the quote, provide the
quote, analyze the quote
No announcements: This essay will address, I will explain,
my thesis, my essay will focus on, etc.
No “I” statements. This should be written as a 3rd person
essay that does not rely on personal narratives.
Use transitions throughout
Use “signal phrases” to introduce your quotes
MLA-Signal-Phrases-for-Quotes-and-Paraphrases.pdf Download
MLA-Signal-Phrases-for-Quotes-and-Paraphrases.pdf
MLA Format:
1” margins on all sides
Black, 12 pt. Font
Times New Roman
Works Cited page
Page numbers upper right corner
Heading
Original Title (centered)
Please write an original title that helps to express what
your essay is about. It should be creative and reflective of the paper you are
writing.
Please include all standard college header information:
Name
Professor Jimenez
English
1A
Date
Please note: You must have a proper, MLA Works Cited page
with correctly formatted citations. If you do not have this, your paper will be
marked incomplete and will not be graded until you have properly included a
Works Cited page with correct citations. If you need help, please see the
following:
Purdue OWL MLA Works Cited PageLinks to an external site.
Works Cited Help (Video Link)Links to an external site.
MLA Citation GeneratorLinks to an external site.
Please use this generator responsibly. You MUST check to
make sure you have used the correct format (MLA 9–the most updated version),
and that you do not have any formatting issues as these happen often when using
a citation generator.
I URGE you to create your Works Cited page and citations
yourself. It is not hard to do, learn, or follow and once you do it a couple of
times you will be able to write your own quickly and easily. You will not have
to depend on a generator.
Generate/Write your assignment in Google Docs to protect
yourself from AI. Google Docs has a feature that tracks the changes of your
document, allowing me to see what changes you have done. This is the best way
for you to protect yourself and prove that you generated/created your work
yourself. If you do not use Google Docs to track your changes and your work is
being listed as AI-generated by Turnitin.com you will have no way to protect
yourself against a zero.