Essay 3 Final Draft: Argumentation Over the course of the semester, we have been thinking about language, power, and identity. In the coming weeks, we will expand our discussion to include technology and gender. For Essay 3, you will write an argument inspired by one of the three issues outlined below. You are free to…
Final Essay Workshop Essay 3 Rough Draft: Argumentation Over the course of the semester, we have been thinking about language, power, and identity. In the coming weeks, we will expand our discussion to include technology and gender. For Essay 3, you will write an argument inspired by one of the three issues outlined below. You…
Module 6 Assignment: Annotated Bibliography To aid in the research process as you write Essay 3, you will complete an Annotated Bibliography. Your Annotated Bibliography should include the 2-3 credible sources that you are planning to use in Essay 3 that you have found from your own research. At least one of the sources included in your Annotated Bibliography…
Module 5 Group Discussion 1: Technology, Authenticity, & Language In the essays and videos we’ve covered in this unit, there are clearly strong opinions in society today about technology, lying, authenticity, and language. From Adam Alter’s argument that screens are destroying our happiness to how AI has made cheating normal on college campuses to how…
Module 4: Academic Writing Essay 2: Analysis Rough Draft To analyze is to take something apart and examine it closely. In an analysis essay, you break down a text/issue/topic to show exactly how and why an author appeals to a particular audience. This essay asks you to not merely summarize a text (what it says)…
Module 3: Analysis Module 3 Group Discussion 1: Sell It The readings in this module focus on the various ways that advertisers or authors persuade readers with certain rhetorical tactics (such as using slanting and charged language or the tactics used by fake news versus real news journalists). Choose something you own that you really…
Module 2: The Writing Process Essay 1: Literacy Narrative Rough Draft For Essay 1, you will be describing a meaningful language experience from your own life in the form of a literacy narrative. A literacy narrative is essentially a personal narrative that describes an event related to the writer’s experience with literacy. As our class…
MODULE 1: Critical Reading It should come as no big surprise that Writing Studies I is a class that focuses on the act of writing. What is interesting about writing, though, is its strong connection to reading and reading well. One of the ways you will be developing your skills as a writer in this class…
ENGL 1013 Writing Studies I is an introductory college writing course that develops students’ ability to read critically, write effectively, analyze rhetoric, conduct academic research, and construct persuasive arguments. The course progresses from personal narrative writing to rhetorical analysis and finally to research-based academic argumentation. Throughout the semester, students strengthen their writing through drafting, peer…
