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Writing and Rhetoric: Academic Essays Assignment - Short Writing Tasks and Final Essay

In WRIT1001 you submit four short writing tasks corresponding to different aspects of the writing process. These tasks will be submitted throughout the semester as you build toward the completion of an argumentative academic essay. The final essay will conduct a rhetorical analysis of a topic that is relevant to you and where methods of analysis from the field of rhetoric and writing studies can help build an original argument about communication on the topic. In a sense, all essays in WRIT1001 answer the same question: how has rhetoric been used in arguments about the topic you have chosen? To produce a high quality response to this topic, the short writing tasks guide you through the writing process so that, in total, you:

• identify various scholarly and/or non-scholarly viewpoints on your topic and analyse those opinions using rhetorical concepts and terms
• refer to (and accurately cite) academic sources related to your topic AND related to rhetoric
• create your own argument that is supported by a rhetorical analysis of the topic
• use academic sources (both related to your topic AND to rhetoric) to support your claims and define key terms
• write and present your argument in a style (formality, tone, complexity, layout, etc) that is suitable for an academic reader with general knowledge about your topic and a special interest in the study of rhetoric

Because the Short Writing Tasks build to the Final Essay, within WRIT1001 you can re-use research and writing submitted for the Short Writing Tasks. You cannot re-use writing you have completed for any other course in WRIT1001. Equally, you cannot re-use writing completed in WRIT1001 for any other course.

Assessment Instructions -

Short Writing Task 1: Proposal Task

LENGTH: 500 words, reference list not included.

INSTRUCTIONS: The goal of this task is to introduce and propose how you will investigate the topic of your final essay. HINT - you will use rhetorical concepts to investigate opinions or arguments on the topic. In order to pass this task, your proposal must:

• describe the topic and identify at least two views on the issue. These views should be attributed to a person or text.
• define a rhetorical concept that you could use to evaluate viewpoints and stances on the topic.

Note - You might use concepts such as the rhetorical situation, rhetorical appeals, rhetorical fallacies, canons of rhetoric, branches of rhetoric. Or you might use single components of these concepts (eg, ethos, pathos, logos, slippery slope fallacies, scare tactics, invention, arrangement, Rogerian argumentation, deliberative / epideictic / forensic rhetoric, etc).

• explain why your analysis will be of interest to an academic reader with general knowledge about your topic and a special interest in the study of rhetoric.
• cite three or more sources including at least one academic source relating to the study of rhetoric. On a separate page at the end of your SWT1 you must include a Reference list or Works Cited list for all sources mentioned in the submission. You should follow APA or MLA style requirements.

RELEVANCE - This task develops skills that are important to your future studies and work. For example, before you can develop a response to an academic question, you must first consider different opinions on the topic. This task also highlights how different kinds of research are suited to different disciplines or subject areas. In professional settings you may be called upon to propose a response to a problem. Your proposal will need to acknowledge what others think of the issue and the method you propose to address the problem.

Short Writing Task 2: Research Task

LENGTH: 500 words, excerpts and reference list not included

The goal of this task is to engage with research relevant to your topic AND to the study of rhetoric. You will find two scholarly sources: one academic source on your topic and one academic source about rhetoric. For each of your academic sources you must:

• under the subheading 'Excerpt', include and reference an excerpt that is 4-5 sentences long
• under the subheading 'Summary', summarise and cite the excerpt
• under the subheading 'Paraphrase', paraphrase and cite the excerpt
• under the heading 'Direct Quotation', use a signal phrase to introduce a short quote from the excerpt, cite the quote, and follow the quote with one or two sentences that describe how the content of the quote might be used in your final essay

On a separate page at the end of your submission for SWT2 you must include a Reference list or Works Cited list. You should follow APA or MLA style requirements. You can use any academic sources you used in SWT1 for SWT2.

Short Writing Task 3: Outline Task

LENGTH: 500 words, quotes and reference list not included

The goal of this task is to build on previous SWTs and create an outline for an essay that will use rhetorical concepts to analyse arguments about your topic. Your outline should:

• include a draft thesis statement that is clear and complex, and that will be supported by an analysis of rhetoric
• use an arrangement strategy discussed in class to plan an essay that analyses rhetoric
• include an essay title that mentions rhetoric and argumentative subheadings that show the stages of your argument, and use different levels/indentations of dot points to distinguish between major points and supporting points/evidence
• include accurately referenced/cited academic sources (at least two on rhetoric and two on your topic) and describe how they will be used in your argument

On a separate page at the end of your submission for SWT3 you must include a Reference list or Works Cited list. You should follow APA or MLA style requirements. You can use the sources you used in previous Short Writing Tasks as well as any paragraphs/sentences written for assessment tasks in WRIT1001.

Short Writing Task 4: Style Task

LENGTH: 500 words, reference list not included

The goal of this task is to practice using and/or adapting academic language and paragraph conventions to best support your argument. You will draft an introduction and a body paragraph from your essay.

The introductory paragraph should:

• contain an interesting hook and opening comments suitable to a rhetorical analysis
• contain a clear and complex thesis statement that can be supported by a rhetorical analysis
• indicate the overall method or outline of the essay

The body paragraph should:

• make a contribution to the essay's rhetorical analysis and use research about rhetoric
• engage with evidence to display advanced critical thinking
• draw a strong connection between the paragraph and the overall argument

Both paragraphs should be written in a style engaging an academic reader with general knowledge about your topic and a special interest in the study of rhetoric while accurately citing and referencing sources mentioned in the paragraphs.

On a separate page at the end of your submission for SWT4 you must include a Reference list or Works Cited list. You should follow APA or MLA style requirements. You can use the sources you used in previous SWTs as well as any sentences written for assessment tasks in WRIT1001.

Final Essay -

LENGTH: 1500 words, reference list not included.

The goal of the final essay is to respond to feedback to deliver a clear and complex argument supported by a rhetorical analysis. The essay should be arranged using a strategy discussed in the course, should display advanced critical thinking, and be written in an inclusive style that engages an academic reader with general knowledge about your topic and a special interest in the study of rhetoric. In a sense, all essays in WRIT1001 answer the same question: how has rhetoric been used in arguments about the topic you have chosen? Standard responses will define rhetorical concepts and describe how arguments on the topic display such rhetorical features. Advanced responses will form an overall evaluation of the use of rhetoric, for example, by defining ethical communication (or inclusive communication, or unethical rhetoric, or manipulative speech, etc) and describing how the features of rhetoric in the arguments you've analysed represent such communication.

On a separate page at the end of your submission for the Final Essay you must include a Reference list or Works Cited list. You should follow APA or MLA style requirements. You can use previous work written for assessment tasks in WRIT1001.

Note - Need Only Short writing task 1: Proposal task - you need to choose a topic and let me know asap. In this task 2 point of views - agree and disagree. 3 Reference articles - Main article, Support article and article from e-Reserve on canvas.

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