Assignments – Week #7

Posted on October 5, 2020 by JSylvor
  1.  Review Personal Narratives:  You can access your personal narratives with my comments and your grades by logging on to turnitin.com and clicking on your paper.  If you wait a minute or two, you will see my comments load.  Scroll to the bottom of the essay, and you will find my final comment plus your grade.  Please read all my comments carefully, then reach out to me with any questions or concerns.  I would be happy to discuss these essays with you during office hours or to make an appointment to talk outside of office hours.
  2. Personal Narrative – Corrections:  Please select 5 sentences in your essay which I have marked as having some kind of issue.  This could be something as specific as a punctuation error or something as vague as “awkward.”  Please revise these five sentences and for each sentence, provide an explanation for the correction you’ve made.  Include the original sentence in your document and submit it to me, either by email or Google Docs by Friday, October 9th.
  3. Rhetorical Analysis Essay – As I told you last week, we are beginning work on our next formal essay, a Rhetorical Analysis of a Political Speech.  Before we meet on Wednesday, please select the speech you’d like to work on for this project.  It can be one of the speeches on the list I posted last week, or it can be a speech of your choosing – provided you have it approved by me first!  Stick to contemporary speeches, please.  Once you have chosen your speech, you will begin the process of annotating the text of the speech, sentence by sentence.  Please send me a sample of your annotation by Sunday, October 11th.  Your sample should include one full paragraph from the speech together with your notes.  Annotation could include thoughts, questions, observations about word choice, style, rhetorical strategies, argument, use of figurative language, repetition, manner of delivery, and more.
  4. Blog Post – As the presidential campaign heats up and more and more “unprecedented” events seem to be happening every day, many of us are either participating in or following commentary about these events on various social media platforms.  In a short blog post, please share a post that caught your attention this week as you were scrolling through your feeds and explain why it caught your eye.  Was it funny, insightful, infuriating, clever???   Please share by Sunday, October 11th.
  5. Wednesday’s Class – Please have both the speech you’ve selected and George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” available to you for Wednesday’s Zoom call.
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