Week 6.

Reading

  1. Carefully read the assignment parameters for Project 1.

Formal Writing
Research Plan/Abstract for Project 1
Your research plan should include MLA-style citations of the two indisputably academic sources you plan on drawing from to write your paper. Your abstract should be no more than 150 words, and it should summarize your argument. Tag this post “englsh abstract 1”.
Due Friday.

(Note: Please consult The OWL at Purdue for assistance with formatting in MLA Style.)


Informal Writing
Public Writing Assignment #1
I am now going to ask you to apply what you have learned these past few weeks about rhetoric and argument by responding to a work online of your choosing. Here are the guidelines:

  1. The work that you choose should concern an issue that you personally care about.
  2. There must be a mechanism for public response attached to the work. For example, you may feel compelled to respond to a picture like this one, but because there is no way you can comment publicly on it, it doesn’t qualify. Most social news sites, newspaper web sites, video sites (like YouTube) etc, provide commenting systems that can be readily used (though you may have to sign up.)
  3. The content, style and length of the comment should be dictated by the expectations of the community in which you are submitting the comment. In other words, keep “kairos” in mind.
  4. After you’ve made your comment, submit a permalink to the specific comment (if possible) or a link to the page where it resides and tag the blog post “public writing 1”.
  5. Add the entry as a “Link” post in Tumblr, and in the “Description” field, briefly (150 words or less) describe the approach you took the argument you made in your comment, discussing specifically the factors that led you to sculpt the comment the way you did.

Note: This assignment is why I had you sign up for an account at nytimes.com, but I ultimately decided to make it less prescriptive. The New York Times does allow readers to comment, but the comments are moderated, which means it may take a few hours for your comment to be approved and “go live.”
Due Thursday

Tasks

Collect your links. Click here.
Due Wednesday.

This was posted 2 years ago. Notes.