by appointment) Required Text: Inventing Arguments: Brief Second Edition by John Mauk and John Metz. Recommended Text: A Writer’s Resource 2009 edition. Course Description: This course will provide instruction in critical reading and writing of expository and argumentative prose‚ including summaries‚ analysis‚ and research. Focus will be on critical reading‚ research methods‚ gathering‚ evaluating analyzing‚ and synthesizing ideas and evidence and documentation. The course is designed to
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The Rhetorical Analysis Project gave us a good chance to learn and apply many skills. We did this project as a group me and my colleague Fahad. At the beginning point‚ we studied the concept of this project then we selected our two sources‚ it was an article and a chosen video. Fahad summarized the first source and I did the second one. After that we discussed and analyzed deeply both sources. Our analysis covers all aspects of these sources: rhetorical situation‚ strategies of arguments‚ rhetorical
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The analysis I made was based on Douglas McGray’s article “Lost in America”. You did a great job mentioning where the article can be found and giving a brief summary of the article at the beginning. It helps the reader understand the main points of the article. However‚ you started your introduction with “Douglas McGray‚ in Lost in America”‚ which is a very common attention-grabber. Unfortunately‚ because of its frequent usage‚ it becomes boring or less interesting to readers. You should try to start
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Paper Rubric Topical Analysis Paper 2: Application/Implications Student: NAME Instructor: NAME Course Number/Cohort Number and Course Name: CJS # Course Name Course Location: Location Assessment Parameter Assigned Value Percent Assessed Conceptual Development and Application of the Theories: The student should demonstrate the following competencies in the development of the Research Paper: (1) Knowledge‚ (2) Comprehension‚ (3) Application‚ (4) Analysis‚ (5) Synthesis‚ (6) Evaluation
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September 7th‚ 2012 Rhetorical Analysis of The Grapes of Wrath The dust bowl was a tragic time in America for so many families and John Steinbeck does a great job at getting up-close and personal with one family to show these tragedies. In the novel‚ “The Grapes of Wrath”‚ John Steinbeck employed a variety of rhetorical devices‚ such as asyndeton‚ personification and simile‚ in order to persuade his readers to enact positive change from the turmoil of the Great Depression. Throughout the novel
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Jorden House-Hay Rhetorical Analysis- Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor I chose Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor‚ by Garret Hardin‚ to analyze because‚ out of all the readings I have ever done for English‚ this particular one is by far the most memorable. It is also perfectly suited for my argument‚ because it is appropriately as offensive as it is logical. The essay‚ in short‚ is a rhetorical argument that claims that helping the poor or unfortunate people of
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Rhetorical Analysis of “On the Want of Money” by William Hazlitt In this current day and age‚ the ideology that money creates stress and unhappiness is commonly preached. Despite what is said today‚ in the 19th century‚ William Hazlitt writes the complete and utter opposite in his essay “On the Want of Money” where he writes money is not the root of all evil but an imperative aspect to a content life. To substantiate his beliefs‚ he uses several rhetorical strategies and examples to develop his
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A rhetorical analysis of Prince Daniel’s wedding speech After many years of waiting for her father’s approval‚ Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden finally got her Prince Daniel. They officially became a couple in May 2002. In the years prior to the wedding‚ Daniel has appeared more and more in the royal context and their engagement was announced on 24 February in 2009. The wedding date was set to the 19th of July in 2010. At the wedding reception‚ after the ceremony‚ Prince Daniel gave his first official
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Arthur Golden wrote this novel for a purpose and this was to inform the reader about this incredible secret culture he himself had discovered whilst interviewing a famous geisha Mineko Iwasaki and it was through the effectiveness of all the elements of his style that he achieved this purpose quite sufficiently. The language used in the novel is very clear and elegant. By using original Japanese words and detailed descriptions the author draws the most incredible pictures in the readers’ mind.
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Plastic pollution is something that is drastically changing our ecosystems. With more trash thrown into bodies of water every day‚ it’s said that “plastics in the ocean will outweigh fish pound for pound in 2050” (“How”). Microplastics are changing the way plastic pollution may travel‚ and not in a good way. Microplastics are pieces of plastic less than 1mm in size and because of that‚ they can’t be removed from the ocean. In recent studies‚ researchers discovered that Zooplankton are able to digest
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