MWP 3 . . . First Steps!

Your first steps for writing your Major Writing Project #3 are:

1. Find a scholarly article about a popular topic. The article should be super current -- no older than 2010.

2. Write a rhetorical precis about your article. Post to your blog.

3. Read your article again and take image mapping notes of your article.

4. Use your image mapping notes to write your summary. Post to your blog.

Alternative Assignment 10/29/12

Watch this video from The Daily Show. After the video, do a 5-minute freewrite about the video and post to your blog.



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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Mark Twain Controversy
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook

After this, use image mapping to take notes of the article "Who Can Say "Nigger"? And Other Considerations," by Randall L. Kennedy, in your book Analyzing Rhetorical Strategies.

Bring these notes to class on Wednesday.

Writing Process Final Schedule

We will continue to work on your papers in class this week. The following dates are important:

Monday, October 22: In-Class Peer Review

Wednesday, October 24: In-Class Peer Review

Friday, October 26: Major Writing Project #2 DUE

You can find the assignment sheet on Blackboard. Here is a summary of the assignment:

WRITING TASK: Compose a rhetorical analysis of a New York Times editorial article found at the link below. This analysis will contain an argument about how the author of the article uses rhetoric to attempt to gain cooperation from his or her intended audience.


REQUIREMENTS: Minimum three pages, typed, double-spaced & following the MLA format

Next Steps!

Once you have completed the "First Steps" listed below, you can begin these following steps:

5. Using your ethos, logos and pathos chart begin to analyze the rhetorical strategies used in the column. Note the ways that the author uses (or not) each of these rhetorical appeals and note the effectiveness of each appeal. This is how you will build your argument. Write this up and post it to your blog. (This could/should be several paragraphs.)

6. Write an introduction to your paper, remembering to be more specific. Post this to your blog.

7. Write a paragraph that defines any words, terms, or ideas that the reader may need to understand your paper. Post to your blog.

You should have most of this done by Monday. On Monday, we will create an outline and plug in all the writing you have done so far.

Extra Credit!

You can gain extra credit for attending tonights Pace/Tipton debate. The debate starts at 7 pm, but I think it is important to go early.

It is at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center. Here is information on how to get there:

http://sdc-arts.org/locationandparking.html

Also, here is an article that you might find interesting:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-salzman/tisha-casida-pueblo-chieftain_b_1901659.html

First Steps!

Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist
and Nobel Prize winning economist.

Here are your first steps for writing your Major Writing Project #2:

1. Find a NY Times column written in September or October of 2012.

2. Post a link to this article on your blog.

3. Create an ethos-logos-pathos chart for your selected column. Post to your blog.

4. Write an opinion-free summary of the column you have selected. Post to your blog.

"Why Men Fail" by David Brooks

Read this opinion column from David Brooks, a New York Times columnist:

This article refers to the article we read earlier this semester by Hanna Rosin. Since the article was first published in The Atlantic Monthly, she has written a book on the same subject.

Please write a 250-word blog entry that examines the argument Brooks is making, remembering to note how he uses ethos, logos and pathos.