Category: ENGLISH

What sort of posts are made to their Facebook page, for example? Are the social media pages easy to use, useful, and does the writing style reflect the needs of customers who use these platforms?Who is the company’s target audience? How do they appeal to this audience on their sites and app?

Technical Writing

Discussion 1 asks us to do four things at once: It asks us to do some research about technical writing in the school library,

identify the fictional company and product you’ll write your class assignments for this term, identify a real-world competitor to your company and its product, and introduce yourself to us all personally.

Choose the fictional company name, company details, and a web hosting service for the class company you’ll be developing this term. Tell us the name of your company, the name of your product, and the URL of the website (this website can be hosted via a free service like Wix or WordPress and so on) you’ll be building for the company.

Describe the interaction between the company and its customers. How active is each social media page? Does the company respond to complaints? What sort of posts are made to their Facebook page, for example? Are the social media pages easy to use, useful, and does the writing style reflect the needs of customers who use these platforms?

If the company has an app, what are its features? Is it easy to use? What information does the app provide for customers? Do they offer coupons? Sales ads? In what ways can the consumer interact with the app features?

Does the company’s site and / or app fit well on a smartphone or tablet screen? Describe the content, presentation and links, color, graphics, and writing style of the website. Is it easy to navigate?

Who is the company’s target audience? How do they appeal to this audience on their sites and app?

 

Identify with them. Think about how you want your characters to develop. Do they change in response to changed circumstances, or are they the same at the end of the narrative as they were in the beginning?

Think about your characters’ motives, their strengths, and their flaws, and what might make readers able to identify with them. Think about how you want your characters to develop. Do they change in response to changed circumstances, or are they the same at the end of the narrative as they were in the beginning?

How did Frederick Douglass use emotional appeal to persuade his audience of his point of view?”. Can only use direct quote or paraphrasing. which means cite. am using the pathos approach.

This is an analytic essay assignment. It is based off of the book “The Narrative of Frederick Douglass by W.W.Norton 2nd Edition <– This is very important. can not use any other edition of this book. The essay is based around the question

How did Frederick Douglass use emotional appeal to persuade his audience of his point of view?”. Can only use direct quote or paraphrasing. which means cite. am using the pathos approach. Must be 6 paragraphs and 1000 words.

Write a critical thinking and research paper on a contemporary issue involving the current Legal and Illegal Drugs and Pharmaceuticals debate.Discuss how well the sources incorporate observation, word precision, facts, and inferences.

Legal and Illegal Drugs and Pharmaceuticals

Write a critical thinking and research paper on a contemporary issue involving the current Legal and Illegal Drugs and Pharmaceuticals debate. Use course textbook “1984” and “Thinking for Yourself” as well as at least four outside sources from your own research. Use relevant quotes from course book “1984” looking at the similarities and differences between our culture and society of the novel. Also refer back to Chapters 1-4 in “thinking for Yourself” and discuss how well the sources incorporate observation, word precision, facts, and inferences.

Example topics we can use but are not limited to these topics:
Legalization of illegal drugs
Addiction to illegal drugs
Addiction to legal or prescription drugs
Illegal drug trafficking
Crime and drugs (legal and illegal)
Pharmaceutical company monopolies

What evidence does the author use to support the claim?Who do you believe is the audience for this piece?What assumptions does the author make?

Silicon Valley Sharknado
In this paper, discuss the following:

What issue is this piece discussing?
What claim is this piece making?
What evidence does the author use to support the claim?
Who do you believe is the audience for this piece?
What assumptions does the author make?

 

Why Does Hollywood Keep Equating Beauty with Virtue?” by Zachary Pincus-Roth [PDF]

Textual Review

Begin by browsing through each of the following pieces of writing:

“‘Cure’ Me? No, Thanks” by Ben Mattlin [PDF]

“The NBA’s Secret Addiction” by Baxter Holmes [PDF]

“The Age of Rudeness” by Rachel Cusk [PDF]

Why Does Hollywood Keep Equating Beauty with Virtue?” by Zachary Pincus-Roth [PDF]

What is being factually presented? What are the facts that are supposed to sway the audience into watching the film? How many facts are offered and what about them seem important?

What do you see in the images that is designed to get an emotional reaction? What sort of logic or facts are being presented? What sort of ethos is being created?

What sort of feeling(s) is the image supposed to create in the audience? Why would this feeling compel them to see the film?

What is being factually presented? What are the facts that are supposed to sway the audience into watching the film? How many facts are offered and what about them seem important?

What type of person is being shown? How should you react to this person? How much do you trust the image to be representing the material clearly and fairly?

You should write three paragraphs, one for each line of argument, explaining your reasoning for identifying them this way. Each paragraph needs a topic sentence, and you need to include support for your claim point. Stick with the language for the assignment. The topic sentence for each paragraph should be:

______ (line of argument) is strongest in _____ (which poster) because _______.

Then go on and offer evidence and reasoning for your claim.

Other points to remember:

What have you learned about rhetoric? How has examining the memoir through the lens of rhetoric helped you to better understand and make use or rhetorical ideas?

What has this first part of the semester taught you about reading and yourself as a reader?

What has this first part of the semester taught you about writing and yourself as a writer?

What would you want to keep and what would you want to change about yourself as a learner, reader, and writer after this experience?

What have you learned from reading the memoir itself? How has reading this book helped you to “see through someone else’s eyes”?

Discuss a previous experience with an acquaintance, co-worker, friend, or family member and how you might approach the experience differently after reading this memoir and learning what you have learned from it.

What have you learned about rhetoric? How has examining the memoir through the lens of rhetoric helped you to better understand and make use or rhetorical ideas?

\How has reading this memoir helped you better understand the current challenges the country faces with regards to racism, white supremacy, violence, and economic disparity?

Cover Letter Midterm Submission Requirements
Students seeking an A need 750 words; students seeking a B or C need 500 words.