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Submission Reminders

• Include all drafts!

Purpose

To 1) foster an understanding of the rhetorical mechanisms of argument, 2) think critically about arguments, 3) evaluate and catalog sources, integrating research into an analysis, 4) compare and contrast writing techniques of different authors, and 5) create a complex thesis that synthesizes both analysis and comparison.

Audience

Educated peers. Remember that your audience has not necessarily read the two essays you are critiquing. Your readers may not have an opinion regarding the content of the essays. They are more interested in your rhetorical analysis.

Style

Academic, informed, analytical voice. Avoid colloquialisms, contractions and excessive numbers of personal pronouns.

Length

1,000-1,500 words + Annotated Bibliography

Project Summary: Select an argument from Part One of Inventing Arguments and select a second article on the same topic published elswhere and analyze how they function rhetorically.

Suggested Steps

1. Review the Argument Handbook in Inventing Arguments.
2. Blog on several arguments from Inventing Arguments
3. Read other students' blogs that critique arguments
4. Select two arguments to evaluate. They can be any two arguments; however, the following stipulations apply: You cannot select a piece that you have already written about in your blog, and one of your selections must be a written argument. For example, it would not be appropriate to choose to analyze the political cartoon on page 187 and the advertisement for drug control on page 87. It would, however, be appropriate to choose one of these visual arguments and an article-length argument from somewhere else in the book. Discuss how the author of the article structures his or her argument and the types of rhetorical devices he or she uses to persuade the reader. Then, locate an article outside the textbook that deals with the same topic and compare how that author's argument strategies are different. Finally, having observed how two different authors handled their arguments, conclude with how you might rewrite the arguments to make them more persuasive.
5. Write a blog that explores how you plan to approach this project, discuss some of your initial reactions to what you read, and explain what types of outside sources you will seek to enhance your analysis. Be sure to leave a few comments on some of your classmates' blogs with any kind of useful information, criticism or guidance you can give them.
6. Seek tough criticism from your classmates.
7. After you have had your paper peer-reviewed, and you have made your final changes, you will submit it for grading.

Additional Resources

• University of Texas
• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
• Annotated Bibliography
• Annotated Bibiography Links
• MLA Links
Review below the guidelines for Blogging in 1102
8/22/2006 11:14:35 AM - -131.247.202.122
Review Project 1 Guidelines.
8/22/2006 11:42:12 AM - -131.247.202.44
Review the guidelines below for completing Project 2.
7/21/2006 3:22:52 PM - Joe Moxley-131.247.116.47
Review guidelines for Project 3. Write a paper or website about social injustice
6/28/2006 10:22:14 AM - Joe Moxley-71.251.125.55
We will follow the portfolio guidelines published at the FYC site: "Portfolio Guidelines":http://collegewriting.us/Shared%20Documents/Portfolio%20Info.aspx with one exception: You only need to revise two of your projects, the first two. We just don't have time to revise the Social Action Project in a six week semester.
6/28/2006 10:30:42 AM - Joe Moxley-71.251.125.55
The +Style+ presentations are a group effort. I ask that you meet in and out of class to prepare for your presentation. You may have up to 30 minutes for the lesson your group is offering. Below list date and time for your style presentations and links to style presentations below. Please take a moment, also, to add the link to your presentation at the DetailedSchedule. For specific guidelines on this assignments, see "Effective Language and Style Group Presentation":http://www.collegewriting.us/Shared%20Documents/Style.aspx Thanks.
8/8/2006 1:24:56 PM - -131.247.202.253
At the DetailedSchedule I will provide specific blog topics that I want you to address. Otherwise, you are free to choose your own topics. Remember: your blog will be more persuasive if you are very specific, use paraphrases or quotation, and provide hyperlinks. Throughout the semester, I will read your blog three times and assign a grade. At a minimum, you must have three blogs each week for five weeks--approximately 2500 words.
8/16/2006 7:20:35 AM - Joe Moxley-72.64.250.172
For ENC 1102, you are to required to publish your major projects online at Writing Wiki. After the course is over, you may delete your site or leave it on the server. If you wish, you may use a pseudonym. Remember not to put anything on the Web that you do not want readers to peruse, now or in the years ahead (see "Public Writing":http://writingwiki.org/default.aspx/WritingWiki/PublicWriting.html for details). At a minimum, link to your major course projects, presentation, +Style+ exercises and blog at your wiki homepage. It's perfectly fine to place the +Style+ exercises on your homepage.
8/10/2006 6:43:47 PM - -70.126.45.107