Final Report First Draft Review
Lesson Materials: For the student-facing pedagogical materials needed to teach today’s class, please open the following page: Final Report First Draft Review Lesson Materials.
Lesson Objectives: Students begin to plan and prepare their final professional report; students draw connections between a reading and the final major writing assignment; students understand how the rhetorical situation shapes a professional report.
Connection to Paper/Project Goals: This lesson is dedicated to the organizational and content aspects of student writing for the final research-based report.
Connection to Course Goals: Students continue their understanding of the various ways a rhetorical situation can influence the objectives in argument. Students continue their understanding of writing as a process of drafting.
Sequence of Activities: 1. Adapted Lecture on Rhetorical Purpose and Convincing an audience; 2. Peer Review; 3. Implementing Changes
Description of Activities:
1. Adapted lecture on rhetorical purpose: students view this PPT and review how rhetorical purpose could be used for business purposes. Students view a series of commercials and product pitches from the show Shark Tank that make use of basic rhetorical principles (ethos, pathos, and logos). Students watch these commercials after reviewing what ethos, pathos, and logos are. They view the segments taking notes on their observations. They share their thoughts with a partner and then discuss each example with their instructor and the rest of the class.
2. Peer review: using this handout, students conduct a peer review on the first draft of the final report.
3. Implementing changes: students use the time remaining to implement changes to the first draft of their professional reports.