5-page issue paper on reproductive rights. Key things to discuss in the paper are:
the massive change (roe vs wade and dobbs vs jackson women’s health)
the reasoning behind the change
political consequences
Those are the key things that need to be talked about in the 5 page issue paper
Review the Supreme Court case “San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez”. Write in reaction to the “majority opinion” and argue against the opinion. Don’t re-litigate the case nor just reviewing the summary of the case.
Read Ch. 16.1 of Stand Up Speak Out
In 250-500 words respond to the prompt by Fri, 4/14 at 11:59pm
In 100-250 words respond to 2 peers’ posts by Sun, 4/16 @ 11:59pm
Intro:
We all have experienced many different kinds of informative speaking. While watching the news, listening to a teachers’ lecture, or watching some form of instructional video on YouTube. An informative speech is intended to inform your audience about a given topic. This is in contrast to a persuasive speech which is meant to convince your audience to take a particular position on an issue.
In an informative speech, you should not assume that the audience knows as much as you. You have to present information in a very clear and easily understandable way which is ideally free of jargon (specialized or professionalized terms). Furthermore, an informative speech should be balanced in terms of its content and the position taken. Informative speeches cover all sides of an issue and try to avoid expressing an opinion in order to allow the audience to make their own conclusions. This does not meant act your own feelings and opinions are irrelevant in an informative speech. Nor does it mean that you have to discuss non-controversial topics. The primary thing to consider is that the goal of an informative speech is TO INFORM. Your goal is not to persuade, convince, or change the audience’s mind. You are primarily focused on sharing information that is helpful, useful, or interesting.
This does not mean that informative and persuasive speeches are completely exclusive. Sometimes, information is persuasive. Simply by presenting the facts about something, you might convince your audience that they were wrong about a particular issue. And on the flip side, in order to be persuasive, you need to present solid, convincing information. Again, the primary thing in an informative speech is to inform. But what does this look like? What does a good informative speech look like? Well, that is what we are exploring in the discussion question forum for this week!
The Prompt:
For this week’s discussion question, you are going to watch an informative speech in its entirety. This speech was delivered in 2017 by a student, Jordyn Allen, competing at the national level in a speech and debate competition who ended up winning the whole competition. I am not showing this speech to insist that you be as good as Allen, to be this good takes years of practice! Rather, I want you to watch this informative speech to consider what makes it good and what makes it specifically an informative speech. An added bonus to watching this video is that it is a VERY good speech that covers an important topic.Below I have pasted the video:
Nationals 2017 – Jordyn Allen “The Birds and the Weaves” – Informative SpeakingLinks to an external site.Nationals 2017 – Jordyn Allen “The Birds and the Weaves” – Informative SpeakingLinks to an external site.
Nationals 2017 – Jordyn Allen “The Birds and the Weaves” – Informative Speaking
After watching the speech, please respond to these questions by applying content from chapter 16.1 of SUSO:
1. What makes this a good speech? What does Allen do well? Consider the content, delivery, and organization of the speech. What about her style and performance stands out? What about her performance do you want to emulate in your own speeches that you will deliver in this class and in the future?
2. What makes this speech specifically a good informative speech? For example, how does Allen make the information “clear and interesting for the audience” (p. 450)? How does Allen create “concrete images” (p. 451)? How is this speech “memorable” (p. 453)? You do not have to limit your response to these specific questions but I put them forward so that you can consider how you can connect the content of the chapter to this speech.
I want you to use at least 2 concepts/quotations/ideas from the text in your response.
Helpful Thoughts:
Allen is a great example for what ou might want to aspire to be as a public speaker. She makes it seem easy but the skill s she is demonstrating (strong organization, connecting with he audience, use of humor, clear presentation of information, strong research and citations of sources etc.) take a long time to develop and the only way to truly develop them is through practice. You will get a chance to work on these skills in the very near future!
I will also say that this speech is quite a long one at around 12 minutes. I really encourage you to sit through the whole thing to capture the full experience of this speech. Watching great public speakers is a good way to visualize what you can do to become a great public speaker yourself!
Final Synthesis Assignment
This assignment is intended to help review key terms/concepts/theories. It is highly recommended that you read the chapter relating to your topic BEFORE you commit to completing this assignment.
For this assignment, you will Create An Original Visual Representation that will help others in class understand key terms/concepts and important theories.
Please read instructions carefully.
Provide a description of ANY THEORIST or RESEARCHER described in Chapters 1-13 and briefly describe their THEORY or MAJOR RESEARCH FINDINGS. Provide specific page numbers from the course textbook that describe the theorist/theory/researcher/research
USE ANY KEY TERM from the text (Chapters 1-13) and relate the term to your theory or research study. Provide specific page numbers from textbook
Describe how the theory/research and term relate to the EARLY-LATER EXPERIENCE DEBATE OR NATURE-NURTURE DEBATE OR CONTINUITY/DISCONTINUITY POSITION first introduced in Chapter 1 of your textbook (1 point).
Provide a VISUAL REPRESENTATION that summarizes YOUR ORIGINAL KEY POINTS & clearly describes the image for the class. This illustration MUST BE AN ORIGINAL IMAGE, PHOTOGRAPH OR ILLUSTRATION. Please do not post a photo, image or illustration you found online.
Finally, synthesize and critically evaluate the theory by telling the class whether or not you agree/disagree with the perspective/research findings and why/why not
Hands-On Project 9-1 from pg 666 in your Vodnik text (6th ed)
In this assignment, you will start work on a web app that enables users to create a greeting card. To accomplish this, you will create code to parse the value of the variable passed from the first web page to the second web page in a query string. You will then add code to display the value in the second web page.
In your text editor, open the index.htm file from the HandsOnProject9-1 folder in the Chapter09 folder, add your name and today’s date where indicated in the comment section, and then save the file.
Before the closing
Use the links below to explore the epidemiology of Traumatic Brain Injuries:
-CDC – Traumatic Brain Injury
Website: https://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/
-Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries: What We Know We Don’t Know
Website: https://www.insidescience.org/news/concussions-and-traumatic-brain-injuries-football-what-we-know-we-dont-know
Question: Injuries are the leading cause of death among children. Discuss why injury epidemiologic data is important when developing health policy. Use Traumatic Brain Injuries as an example. Make sure to include epidemiologic data to support your ideas your ideas.
Using the life and times of Sam Patch as a starting point, describe what industrialization was doing to the institutions of freedom and equality in America during the Early Republic Period (1800-1837). Construct a 2-3-page paper that describes how industrialization is changing the country during this period and how working-class Americans are responding to it. Be sure to incorporate the general historical narrative in your paper.
This is an argumentative paper. It is essential that you provide a thesis statement (argument). In writing this paper you are required to engage readings from Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper, SFA, as well as lecture materials. It is expected that you will prove proficiency in the course materials and demonstrate the ability to synthesize and analyze these materials in support of your thesisUsing the life and times of Sam Patch as a starting point, describe what industrialization was doing to the institutions of freedom and equality in America during the Early Republic Period (1800-1837). Construct a 2-3-page paper that describes how industrialization is changing the country during this period and how working-class Americans are responding to it. Be sure to incorporate the general historical narrative in your paper.
GUIDELINES:
DO NOT PLAGIARIZEDO
PAPER SHOULD USE MLA formate for citations
TWO FULL pages minimum
Use a 12-point font. Make sure there is a one-inch margin on each side Double space the test and number your pages
Thesis SHOULD APPEAR IN BOLD
All sources come from materials in class-no outside sources
Do not use personal pronouns(I, ME, YOU, ETC.). Do not use contractions (don’t , can’t, won’t, etc.).
WEEK 6: Essay 2: Process Preferences: Knowing Yourself and Others (10 points) – 700-1,000 words
Review the discussion of process preferences on pp. 254-257. Think about a project that you worked on as part of a team within your work setting. Describe the process preference(s) that best describe(s) you (clarifier, ideator, developer, implementer). Give examples to support your assessment. Identify the process preferences of other group members, and discuss the contributions and/or perceived obstacles that were an outcome of their involvement. How can you use this information to work productively as a team in the future?
The details:
1,500 -2,500 words, excluding Works Cited page
the final draft must include at least six (6) secondary sources, four (4) of which must be
scholarly.
Collectively worth 400 points (40% of total grade)
-50 points for the Proposal, 350 points for the final draft of the essay
A missing early draft will result in a 5% deduction from your final grade
Failure to meet with a Research librarian will result in a 5% deduction from your final
grade.
This assignment addresses all the Course Outcomes for the First Year Writing sequence:
Analyze the audience, occasion, and purpose of a rhetorical situation in order to
formulate a response to an idea or problem.
Generate ideas through both discovery and consultation of a variety of sources.
Develop ideas fully, offering compelling support and evidence for assertions or
conclusions.
Organize ideas coherently, integrating sources effectively and documenting them
appropriately.
Edit writing for clarity, precision, and stylistic effectiveness.
Proofread writing to ensure grammatical and mechanical correctness.
Assume your reader, like you, is willing to grow and change. Also assume that they know less
about the issue in question. That means you need to
provide sufficient context for them—they need to understand why the question requires
resolution in the first place.
provide a clear explanation of your proposed solution and the reasons and evidence that
have led you to it.
o present not only the strongest rationale and evidence for your stance, but that you
provide your reader with the strongest rationale and evidence from different
viewpoints and respond to them. Leaving out opposing views will make your
argument a straw man, so you must include and respond to them.
Purposes: To trace a characters’ heroic journey and make observations about how she is a
typical or non-typical hero; to analyze through reading, viewing and research; to use source
material correctly; to apply secondary sources to analyze a primary source and integrate other
people’s ideas into our own writing.
Goals: Analyze and describe a main characters’ “hero’s journey” from the work of your choice.
It could be from a movie, comic, computer or console game, tv series, Anime, novel, short story,
a work we’ve read about in class such as Sir Gawain, Hunger Games or Walking Dead (aside
from a Mr. Roger’s film), or someone’s real life biography. What is her call, threshold,
revelation, abyss, and other main parts of the journey? If you wrote about an anti-hero or villain,
you’d show how they didn’t meet the steps in the journey and why, such as for Anakin
Skywalker in Star Wars or Joel in Last of Us.
Requirements:
1. Five-Eight full pages (1250-2000+ words). Put word count on final—can’t include title
page info of author/date/class etc or works cited info. Max is 2250 words, including
works cited.
2. Need a total of least five secondary sources:
Required: Harris and Thompson’s The Hero’s Journey.
Required: Pearson’s The Hero Within.
Find three more sources, one of which must be specifically about your book,
movie, tv show, et al (the primary source).
Another source(s) could be additional hero’s journey material (could be Murdock
for female heroes from packet)—you want to search Hay Library and other
databases for more information about hero’s, hero’s journey, heroine’s journey,
and your specific hero or literary work.
Your primary source, the movie or book, is also counted, which brings the total to
6—and it too should be listed on the works cited page.
3. Need at least six uses of sources from secondary sources: quotes mostly, but at least one
summary or paraphrase. It is assumed that you’ll be summarizing many times as well
from your primary work. Summaries or paraphrases should be documented correctly, just
like a quotation. Include a Works Cited page.
4. You must organize around the hero’s or heroine’s journey—each topic sentence should
state what part of the journey that paragraph will be about, and you must use Harris and
Thompson or another source to define it, much like in the Mr. Rogers’ film paper.
Guidelines
1. If your primary source is a movie or tv show, take notes on your viewing—those notes
are the details you’ll use in your paper. It’s recommended that you begin viewing, re-
viewing, and taking those notes as soon as possible. Also, don’t choose a long series and
attempt to summarize it. Even summarizing a year of a series (usually around 13
episodes) would be difficult. If you choose such a longer work, perhaps choose 3 episode
from beginning, middle, or end of series. Also, you could just focus in on 1-3 episodes,
since each episode usually has its own call, threshold, and so forth, even while the
beginning of a whole series will present a lot of “separation” material, or the end of a
series year might present many “return” elements. If you choose episodes in that manner,
you can focus on the parts of the journey most evident.
2. Read your secondary material sources interactively to find material that you’ll use in your
paper. You can use much of the same material you used in your Mr. Rogers’ film paper
to define steps in the journey.
3. The second stage is to check out potential sources in the library or from the libraries web-
based databases. See if there’s a good amount of information on Ebsco, Films on
Demand, Opposing Viewpoints, Academic Search Premier, or Wyldcat. Gather this
information together—check it out, print it off, and annotate it. Please note: There are
many “hero” related books in the Hay library.
4. Create a formal proposal of your topic, including a scratch outline, what you already
know about it, reasons why you’re choosing it, and a list of several possible sources.
5. Create an annotated bibliography for several sources as another way to interact with
source material. See handbook.
6. Use research but allow your own ideas, experiences, and explanations to be the most
important part of the essay. Be a good “Talk Show Host”. Remember to have an opinion
about the character as a thesis and/or to make it either in the argumentative or a report
mode.
7. After you have a skeleton draft (a really rough draft), that’s the time to begin using your
notes and to begin responding to and reacting to your sources. Find some supporting
facts or opinions to help support the points you make in your paragraphs. Use Harris or
another hero’s journey source to define each of the steps in the journey early in each
body paragraph. Use some quotes and some summaries, but be sure to document all and
introduce them. See your handbook about synthesizing ideas/about integrating sources–
be sure you have your own ideas, then give a quotation or use of source, then your
interpretation or comment on that source.
A good goal is to have at least 1 quotation/use of source in every body paragraph to help
develop support. In any given paragraph, you may have up to 2-3 quotations for a good
density of evidence/support, followed by interpretations/comments. Do use some quotes
from the movie as well (documenting them with the movie title. However, don’t get
source happy. Having interpretations, your own ideas, comments and conclusions about
sources keeps the paper from just being a “source dump”—you want to get beyond the
kind of research paper you might have written in 6th grade when you just pulled
information from the encyclopedia, a webpage, and a book on the life of Thomas Edison
and just dumped quotations and borrowed information together into one big stinky pile.
8. Work on this skeleton draft. Edit it for grammar and content—see your handbook page
to edit sentences for punctuation/mechanics. Double check how you’ve used your
sources. Make sure that it’s as interesting as you can make it. Think about your
audience—would a reader find your information and opinions entertaining and fresh? Is
it well organized, or do you have little paragraphs just floating around with no purpose?
After you’ve done this, you’ll have a good rough draft.
9. Revise your essay, especially after peer or teacher editing, and Net Tutor comments.
Rubric for Researched Essay ENGL 1020 Spring 2023
Basics
Formatting in MLA style, double spaced, paginated ____/15 points
Paper is at least 5 pages or 1250 words (include word count) _____/25 points (Maximum is
2250 word pages—if it goes over -5 pts per 100)
Paper has a title, interesting first line and lead-in/background in introduction, with a clear thesis
at the end of first paragraph ____/30 points
Paper is clearly organized around hero’s or heroine’s journey steps____ 40 points
Topic is interesting and well developed with specific detail and examples from primary and
secondary sources _____100 points
Basic subtotal: _____/210
Grammar/mechanics _____/40 points
Use of Source MLA style
Paper has 6 sources (5 secondary and at least 1 primary). +2 for each over that #, with +6
maximum for bonus _____/ 25 points (0 points if under the required #).
Sources are used to illustrate or for examples, offering support for points/claims _____/15 points
Each step in hero’s or heroine’s journey is defined with a use of source ____/ 25 points
Paper has good balance between writer’s own ideas and that of source material
______/15 points
Sources are well used, using quotation marks for direct quotes, integrated or introduced with no
floating quotes, and are well documented ______/ 55 points
Works cited page is alphabetized, reverse indented, and in proper format ____/15 points
Use of source subtotal ___ 150
Total _____/400Purposes: To trace a characters’ heroic journey and make observations about how she is a
typical or non-typical hero; to analyze through reading, viewing and research; to use source
material correctly; to apply secondary sources to analyze a primary source and integrate other
people’s ideas into our own writing.
Goals: Analyze and describe a main characters’ “hero’s journey” from the work of your choice.
It could be from a movie, comic, computer or console game, tv series, Anime, novel, short story,
a work we’ve read about in class such as Sir Gawain, Hunger Games or Walking Dead (aside
from a Mr. Roger’s film), or someone’s real life biography. What is her call, threshold,
revelation, abyss, and other main parts of the journey? If you wrote about an anti-hero or villain,
you’d show how they didn’t meet the steps in the journey and why, such as for Anakin
Skywalker in Star Wars or Joel in Last of Us.
Requirements:
1. Five-Eight full pages (1250-2000+ words). Put word count on final—can’t include title
page info of author/date/class etc or works cited info. Max is 2250 words, including
works cited.
2. Need a total of least five secondary sources:
Required: Harris and Thompson’s The Hero’s Journey.
Required: Pearson’s The Hero Within.
Find three more sources, one of which must be specifically about your book,
movie, tv show, et al (the primary source).
Another source(s) could be additional hero’s journey material (could be Murdock
for female heroes from packet)—you want to search Hay Library and other
databases for more information about hero’s, hero’s journey, heroine’s journey,
and your specific hero or literary work.
Your primary source, the movie or book, is also counted, which brings the total to
6—and it too should be listed on the works cited page.
3. Need at least six uses of sources from secondary sources: quotes mostly, but at least one
summary or paraphrase. It is assumed that you’ll be summarizing many times as well
from your primary work. Summaries or paraphrases should be documented correctly, just
like a quotation. Include a Works Cited page.
4. You must organize around the hero’s or heroine’s journey—each topic sentence should
state what part of the journey that paragraph will be about, and you must use Harris and
Thompson or another source to define it, much like in the Mr. Rogers’ film paper.
Guidelines
1. If your primary source is a movie or tv show, take notes on your viewing—those notes
are the details you’ll use in your paper. It’s recommended that you begin viewing, re-
viewing, and taking those notes as soon as possible. Also, don’t choose a long series and
attempt to summarize it. Even summarizing a year of a series (usually around 13
episodes) would be difficult. If you choose such a longer work, perhaps choose 3 episode
from beginning, middle, or end of series. Also, you could just focus in on 1-3 episodes,
since each episode usually has its own call, threshold, and so forth, even while the
beginning of a whole series will present a lot of “separation” material, or the end of a
series year might present many “return” elements. If you choose episodes in that manner,
you can focus on the parts of the journey most evident.
2. Read your secondary material sources interactively to find material that you’ll use in your
paper. You can use much of the same material you used in your Mr. Rogers’ film paper
to define steps in the journey.
3. The second stage is to check out potential sources in the library or from the libraries web-
based databases. See if there’s a good amount of information on Ebsco, Films on
Demand, Opposing Viewpoints, Academic Search Premier, or Wyldcat. Gather this
information together—check it out, print it off, and annotate it. Please note: There are
many “hero” related books in the Hay library.
4. Create a formal proposal of your topic, including a scratch outline, what you already
know about it, reasons why you’re choosing it, and a list of several possible sources.
5. Create an annotated bibliography for several sources as another way to interact with
source material. See handbook.
6. Use research but allow your own ideas, experiences, and explanations to be the most
important part of the essay. Be a good “Talk Show Host”. Remember to have an opinion
about the character as a thesis and/or to make it either in the argumentative or a report
mode.
7. After you have a skeleton draft (a really rough draft), that’s the time to begin using your
notes and to begin responding to and reacting to your sources. Find some supporting
facts or opinions to help support the points you make in your paragraphs. Use Harris or
another hero’s journey source to define each of the steps in the journey early in each
body paragraph. Use some quotes and some summaries, but be sure to document all and
introduce them. See your handbook about synthesizing ideas/about integrating sources–
be sure you have your own ideas, then give a quotation or use of source, then your
interpretation or comment on that source.
A good goal is to have at least 1 quotation/use of source in every body paragraph to help
develop support. In any given paragraph, you may have up to 2-3 quotations for a good
density of evidence/support, followed by interpretations/comments. Do use some quotes
from the movie as well (documenting them with the movie title. However, don’t get
source happy. Having interpretations, your own ideas, comments and conclusions about
sources keeps the paper from just being a “source dump”—you want to get beyond the
kind of research paper you might have written in 6th grade when you just pulled
information from the encyclopedia, a webpage, and a book on the life of Thomas Edison
and just dumped quotations and borrowed information together into one big stinky pile.
8. Work on this skeleton draft. Edit it for grammar and content—see your handbook page
to edit sentences for punctuation/mechanics. Double check how you’ve used your
sources. Make sure that it’s as interesting as you can make it. Think about your
audience—would a reader find your information and opinions entertaining and fresh? Is
it well organized, or do you have little paragraphs just floating around with no purpose?
After you’ve done this, you’ll have a good rough draft.
9. Revise your essay, especially after peer or teacher editing, and Net Tutor comments.
Rubric for Researched Essay ENGL 1020 Spring 2023
Basics
Formatting in MLA style, double spaced, paginated ____/15 points
Paper is at least 5 pages or 1250 words (include word count) _____/25 points (Maximum is
2250 word pages—if it goes over -5 pts per 100)
Paper has a title, interesting first line and lead-in/background in introduction, with a clear thesis
at the end of first paragraph ____/30 points
Paper is clearly organized around hero’s or heroine’s journey steps____ 40 points
Topic is interesting and well developed with specific detail and examples from primary and
secondary sources _____100 points
Basic subtotal: _____/210
Grammar/mechanics _____/40 points
Use of Source MLA style
Paper has 6 sources (5 secondary and at least 1 primary). +2 for each over that #, with +6
maximum for bonus _____/ 25 points (0 points if under the required #).
Sources are used to illustrate or for examples, offering support for points/claims _____/15 points
Each step in hero’s or heroine’s journey is defined with a use of source ____/ 25 points
Paper has good balance between writer’s own ideas and that of source material
______/15 points
Sources are well used, using quotation marks for direct quotes, integrated or introduced with no
floating quotes, and are well documented ______/ 55 points
Works cited page is alphabetized, reverse indented, and in proper format ____/15 points
Use of source subtotal ___ 150
Total _____/400