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Essay Assignment Essay #4 – Persuasive Writing – Rogerian Model
Essay #4 is a take home essay that looks at Science and Technology. This section trains students how to persuade audiences to adhere to a given position through consensus building. Students need to write an essay that follows a Rogerian Model, which emphasizes the need to find a common ground.
More specifically, it trains students to identify specific biases and action statements to convince an audience to follow a specific position. You will need to identify an issue that focuses on science and technology and develop an argument that presents a mediated solution. In addition, you need to use one of the following articles as a source. *These articles are available online or print.
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“The Ways We Lie“
“Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs”
“Our Vanishing Night”
“The Obligation to Endure”
David Quammen’s “Was Darwin Wrong?”*
Levitt and Dubner’s “Freakonomics: The Hidden Side of Everything”*
Pierre Haski’s “Electronic Corpses”*
Paul Davies’ “How to Build a Time Machine”*

Essentially, you need to write a MLA formatted essay with a minimum of three full pages that looks at science and technology as a whole. You may also use additional sources to help you develop your essay; however, for each source that you use in the essay, you will need to write a short half page argument analysis and a copy of the article.
Here are some additional sources to help you with your essay.
Rogerian Model: http://writingcommons.org/genres/academic‐writing/rogerian‐argument http://utminers.utep.edu/kmooy/rogerian.htm
General Science/Technology Topics:
Connections or The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke (available through YouTube) http://www.scientificamerican.com Nova at PBS.org
Master List of Science and Techonlogy Journals: http://ip‐science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/