This assignment is worth 14% of your course grade. The weighting of each question is indicated in the left-hand margin of the table below.
Remember to include a cover page with your assignment, including your name, student ID, the name of the course, the name of the assignment, and the date. Please also remember to number the pages of your assignment. Be certain to use a proper method for referencing, preferably MLA. Include a title page or header with your name, ID, course and assignment number, and date of submission.
Choose one of the following three essays from Reader’s Choice, and complete questions 1 – 5 in the table below.
“John Lennon, Michael Jackson: Do Celebrities Die Anymore?” by Katrina Onstad, Chapter 3
“The Culture of Overwork” by Judy Rebick, Chapter 9
“Status Anxiety? Consider Socrates and the Sewer Saviour” by Irshad Manji, Chapter 6
Be sure to carefully edit the paragraphs you compose for questions 2, 3, and 4.
(20) 1. Map or outline the essay you are reviewing. If you choose mapping, use Word’s Insert function with text. Be sure to provide references for all specifically paraphrased and quoted material that you use directly from the essay.
(20) 2. Note the topic, purpose, and main idea for the essay you have chosen. Using these notes and the map or outline you produced for Question 1, write a summary of the essay. The paragraph should be no more than 200 words, and any paraphrased material or direct quotations must be properly referenced (refer to essay documentation in the MLA Documentation Skills Module). Be sure to use MLA documentation throughout.
(20) 3. Identify the primary rhetorical mode the writer uses to develop the essay. Using the appropriate course outline log entries for guidance, discuss in paragraph form how you determined this mode to be dominant, and use examples from the essay to illustrate the mode. Briefly discuss how the mode is appropriate to the topic at hand.
(20) 4. Find examples in the essay of two other rhetorical modes used in conjunction with the central one. For each, identify which mode it demonstrates, and quote the relevant example. Explain how you determined which mode is demonstrated by each example. Explain how the use of this mode helps to develop and support the ideas presented in the essay and how it helps to further the author’s purpose.
(20) 5. Demonstrate your understanding of the strategies used to generate ideas by doing the following:
a. Write a reaction you had to the essay you read.
b. Beginning with the reaction statement or question you wrote for part “a”, use one of the strategies for generating ideas (refer to Log Entry 16) as a pre-writing step. Let this beginning idea lead you in as many directions as possible. Follow tangents and make associations. Raise questions. Write out memories. Whichever of the five methods you use, you should strive here to generate a lot of material without worrying about where it is taking you.
c. Reread your answer to “b”, and look for something that is of interest to you. Formulate a main idea statement that could serve as the focus of an essay.
d. Now, pretend that you are indeed going to write an essay on the main idea you stated in “c”. Use an idea generating method but, this time, stay with this main idea, and come up with as many developmental points, examples, and details as you can that might be used in writing an essay with this main idea. You do not have to actually write the essay nor organize the material you generate at this time. Just pursue this idea, and come up with as much material as you can.
(100)
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