Category: Literature

Consider how much they know about your topic and what they need to know to understand your purpose. Will you need to explain complex terminology? Will graphs help your audience?

CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) with American football player

The purpose of this assignment is to try to help you to see writing as it is—an important means of communication. To accomplish this,  analyze your research topic more fully by identifying your research questions and  statement and then carefully considering your rhetorical situation. Remember: your challenge in the research paper is to communicate your purpose clearly to your reader.

Place your research questions and statement at the top of the page, below the required heading, and answer the questions shown below. Be sure that the questions are copied to your assignment; each question should be followed by a one to two paragraph answer.

The purpose of this assignment is to help direct your research and organize your thinking on the topic. Remember that your thesis statement should be a single, complete sentence that is NOT a question.

Write three of your research questions here (remember that, if the question can be answered by YES or NO, it is a closed-ended question that does not invite discussion and so should be revised):

Question 1.

Question 2.

Question 3.

Write your thesis statement here (one complete sentence that is not a question):

Write paragraphs that respond to the questions below:

What is my purpose in writing this paper?

What do already know about my topic? What are my feelings toward this topic?

What do my readers already know? What are my readers’ feelings toward the topic?

What do my readers need to know to understand my point?

What information do  need to research and add to my paper?

Begin by looking at the research question(s) which triggered this thesis statement. Then explain your purpose (passing the course is not the purpose here). Your statement is a good place to start, but you need to go a bit further. Are you trying to inform, entertain, persuade, or do something else?

Consider the “audience take-away.” What do you want your readers to know, feel, or believe when they finish reading your research paper? A clear understanding of your purpose will help you decide what information to include in your paper and how to organize your paper.

Next, consider your audience; in this case, your audience is your classmates. Consider how much they know about your topic and what they need to know to understand your purpose. Will you need to explain complex terminology? Will graphs help your audience? If your topic is a controversial one, think about the best way to present it to your audience. For example, think about your tone and word choice here.

Once you have an understanding of your purpose and audience, consider your subject.

How much information do you already know about the topic? What information do you need to research and present to your audience in order to fulfill your purpose? Careful consideration here will help direct your research.

Here is a FAQ and answer from the APUS Library that may help you:

What is the difference between a thesis statement and a research question?

provide critical evaluation of the impacts of aviation on society from the sustainability perspective and the need for associated legislation and regulation at national and international level.

Aviation Sustainability

For the first part of this individual assignment, you are required provide critical evaluation of the impacts of aviation on society from the sustainability perspective and the need for associated legislation and regulation at national and international level.

In the second part of the assignment, you are required to assess critically the current operational, legislative, market based and technological measures in sustainable aviation, using relevant industry examples

Demonstrate your knowledge of the Modernist theme that you selected in the Research Proposal by using two literary texts and scholarly research to convince readers how and why your chosen theme is representative of Modernism.

Benchmark – Modernist Themes in Literature Research Essay

In 1,500-2,000 words, demonstrate your knowledge of the Modernist theme that you selected in the Research Proposal by using two literary texts and scholarly research to convince readers how and why your chosen theme is representative of Modernism.

Your essay must be an argument with significant literary analysis and well-integrated scholarly sources.

Your essays will include:

An effective introduction about the period and the theme, which ends in a clear thesis that is fully supported by the rest of your paper

A brief biographical sketch of the writers and some discussion of how they and their work are Modern

Textual evidence from the selected works to explain your analysis

Secondary sources to support your analysis

A conclusion that neither repeats nor summarizes your essay but, rather, provides commentary on the larger issues you’ve raised and perhaps responds to the postmodern period that reacted against what the Moderns were doing

Essay Question: ​All men, to my mind, conform to one type or the other; one to that of Hamlet, another to that of Don Quixote?’ (Turgenev, ‘Hamlet and Don Quixote’). Consider Turgenev’s argument in relation to your chosen character(s) in Fathers and Sons

Russian Novels: Dysfunctional Families

Essay Question: ​All men, to my mind, conform to one type or the other; one to that of Hamlet, another to that of Don Quixote?’ (Turgenev, ‘Hamlet and Don Quixote’). Consider Turgenev’s argument in relation to your chosen character(s) in Fathers and Sons

The essay is based on the book ‘Fathers and Sons ‘by Turgenev, and the focus is on analysing characters within the book in relation to the quote above.

Do the characters in the book conform to characteristics like

Hamlet and/or Don Quixote.

This is the e-book version of Father and Sons which should be cited using Harvard style formatting

Point, Evidence, Explanation style with loads of quotes from the texts cited in the arguments

Each paragraph should have 3 references,use a lot of quotes and secondary source quotes as well.

Being critical, comparing the characters to Don Quixote and Hamlet

 

Discuss and evaluate debates about the development and nature of the novel from its beginnings to the present day

Personality is what living beings have. “Character” on the other hand is what people in novels have. The biggest ideological presupposition that novel readers are encouraged to make is to think that characters in novels have personalities.’ Consider the means by which any two novels encourage such a presupposition.

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Two novels MUST be the main source of material when answering the question. Daniel Defoe’s ‘Moll Flanders’ and Muriel Spark’s ‘The Prime of Jean Brodie’.

This is a must have. All other sources have been used in the essay as well to make rewriting easier, but more can be used if wanted.

The essay gained only 20 marks out of the needed 40, so an extra 20 is needed for a pass. Here are the learning outcomes for this module:

By the end of the module, you should be able to:

Discuss and evaluate debates about the development and nature of the novel from its beginnings to the present day

Recognise the complexity of the relationship between the formal and thematic concerns of particular novels and their historical contexts

Show understanding of how individual novelists employ specific techniques in order to serve their particular narrative strategies

Compare how different novelists have used the novel to address recurrent thematic concerns and exploited the possibilities of the form in different ways.

Any other information then please do not hesitate to contact and ask.

What is the future of online learning? This is the topic for this research paper.

What is the future of online learning? This is the topic for this research paper.

The primary goal is to explore your research question with depth and sophistication rather than persuade an audience of a particular viewpoint.

While you will need to propose some sort of answer to your question in this research paper, that answer may be tentative. It may, for example, point in the direction of further questions and further research.

It may identify contradictions in your research that are, at this time, irresolvable. Again, in writing this paper, focus on exploring, interpreting, and synthesizing ideas rather than on “defending” a.

Elaborate on Attridge’s critique of an instrumental approach to literature, and his claim that the literary domain can be seen as valuable for its cultivation of an openness to Otherness and a willingness to change.

Elaborate on Attridge’s critique of an instrumental approach to literature, and his claim that the literary domain can be seen as valuable for its cultivation of an openness to Otherness and a willingness to change.

For your discussion, then, pick one quotation from those above and replace “rhetoric” with “social media.” Considering these quotations, how does Lanier’s book hold up when viewed through contemporary scholarship?

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Throughout these nine lessons, you have read and responded to Lanier’s ten arguments for deleting your social media. You’ve moved through 2000+ years of rhetorical theory, and you have produced and analyzed different argumentation methods.

At this point, we’ve come to the 20th and 21st centuries. Contemporary research about argumentation often focuses on argument as much broader than public, political, and judicial texts. Instead, scholars today often focus on how we are persuaded by popular and mass media.

This would include social media. Scholars today argue that social media is as relevant as a form of communication like any other.

Just like we’ve studied speeches, essays, letters, and literature, they would also argue that we can also study Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Slack, Tik Tok, Snapchat, Tumblr, and Reddit. Social media is communication.

Consider, then, these definitions of rhetoric (remember, rhetoric = persuasion/argumentation) from 20th and 21st-century scholars and substitute “rhetoric” for “social media”.

“Rhetoric is that which creates an informed appetite for the good.” (Richard Weaver, 1948)

“Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in being that by nature respond to symbols” (Kenneth Burke, 1950).

“Rhetoric is the art of discovering warran table beliefs and improving those beliefs in shared discourse… the art of probing what we believe we ought to believe, rather than proving what is true according to abstract methods” (Wayne Booth, 1964).

“Rhetoric is a mode of altering reality, not by the direct application of energy to objects, but by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action” (Lloyd Bitzer, 1968).

“We should not neglect rhetoric’s importance, as if it were simply a formal superstructure or technique exterior to the essential activity. Rhetoric is something decisive in society… [T]here are no politics, there is no society without rhetoric, without the force of rhetoric” (Jacques Derrida, 1990).

“Rhetoric is the art, practice, and study of [all] human communication” (Andrea Lunsford, 1995).

“Rhetoric appears as the connective tissue peculiar to civil society and to its proper fatalities, happiness and political peace hie et nunc” (Marc Fumaroli, 1999).

For your discussion, then, pick one quotation from those above and replace “rhetoric” with “social media.” Considering these quotations, how does Lanier’s book hold up when viewed through contemporary scholarship?

For your discussion below, you’ll want to develop your response using 1 outside source in a response of approximately 250 – 500 words.

If you’re struggling to develop your discussion, you may find guidance on this page useful: Writing Toolkit: Developing Your Discussions.

Discuss the act of leaving home. How do the authors in any of the four selections this week describe this? What struggles and victories are revealed? Give examples from the text.

Leaving Home, Starting Anew

READ: Ahmad, D. (Ed.) (2019). The Penguin Book of Migration literature. New York: Penguin/Random House

“An Honest Exit” by Dinaw Mengestu p. 69

“AmeRican” by Tato Laviera p. 237

“Green” by Sefi Atta p. 240

“A Conversation” by Pauline Kaldas p. 251

After reading the four stories,:

1-Discuss the act of leaving home. How do the authors in any of the four selections this week describe this? What struggles and victories are revealed? Give examples from the text.

2-Read both Tato Laviera’s bio and his poem “AmeRican.” How does the poet reveal both pride and “our own way of life” (p. 238, line 49)? Give examples from the text. TATO’s BIO:

3-Lastly, choose any of the readings to answer the following: What were they seeking? Give examples from the text.