Week 7 Blog Post Topic

For your Argumentative Research Paper, you will choose an issue negatively affecting your community that you feel warrants more attention. Your assignment will be to convince your audience 1) your issue greatly affects their community and 2) your proposed solution will address this issue effectively within the community and is based on proven models.
For the proposal, you should first come up with a strong claim, which will argue that a particular issue is negatively affecting your community and should be recognized. Your claim for the proposal might not end up being exactly the same in your research paper, and that is fine. Next, you will decide on a number of supporting reasons to back up your claim. If you haven’t done all of the research, you should still have an idea of what type of research/evidence you will need to support your claim.
Remember, your proposal should use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation and be a minimum of 250 words to receive full credit!

Week 6 Blog Post Topic

Sorry this is a day late. Hope you are all having a great spring break!

For this week's blog post, use the Imagination Prompt Generator at http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/imagination.prompt.html to find a creative writing topic. You may click on the "next prompt" button as many times as you like until you find something that sparks your interest. Remember, it still needs to be at least 150 words and should use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Don't forget that you should be titling your posts "Week 6 ..."

Week 5 Blog Post Topic

For this week's blog assignment, write a reflection on your Narrative Essay. In order to do this, you must actually read through your paper with my comments (which I will hand back on Wednesday) and make mental notes of areas in which you feel you excelled and areas in which you could use some improvement. Then, record these thoughts and any others you may have after fully completing this assignment in a well-developed paragraph (min. 150 words). End the paragraph with a discussion of your goals going into writing the Rhetorical Analysis Essay, including how you plan to address any/all areas of concern.

*This is not an excuse/opportunity for you to vent about your grade. If you have any questions about my comments and/or the grade you received, make an appointment to meet with me outside of class.

Sample Rhetorical Analysis Essays

In addition to the reading from the book, an Analysis of 2 Film Trailers on pg. 240, I have included links to a few sample essays that we will discuss in class on M 3/14. Be prepared to discuss these.

http://www.speakwrite.net/sample_rhetorical_analysis_paper.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/202048/rhetorical_analysis_of_1971_jeep_commando.html

Writing a Rhetorical Analysis

Below I've posted a link that will give you some assistance in preparing to write your next essay, the rhetorical analysis.

http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/2010/how-to/academic/rhetorical-analysis/

We will be discussing this more in-depth next week, but it's never a bad idea to prepare ahead of time!