Essay #2
Full rough draft of Essay #2 due in triplicate
To prepare your draft you need to to do the following:
Annotation Lab
1). Read and annotate your two articles for key elements presented by author; what do they say was notable about your event that you can use as evidence for your claim?
2). As you read: Write E, L, or P in the margin when you come across appeals to Ethos, Logos, or Pathos
3). Double Entry Journal Method:
Left: Choose two direct quotes from each article & practice writing a sentence where you create signal phrase, proper integration, and metacommentary afterwards.
Right: Summarize the quote & provide metacommentary about why/how it’s important.
Remember Claims, Reasons, Evidence page from Building Arguments
Writing Lab
1). When you’re finished reading both articles, return to your working thesis and revise.
2). Outlining: Using the Classical Argument Essay Template, create an outline for your essay.
3). Drafting: When your outline is complete, begin drafting the essay!
Reading Homework
Print, read, and annotate Prologue to Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man (handout), Clint Smith’s “Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” As A Parable Of Our Time”
–For both: What type of writing is this? Who is speaker?
–For Ellison:
1). What sort of reaction to invisibility is E. speaking of at bottom of paragraph 2?
2). What does he mean about sleepwalkers?
3). Why does narrator need the light, love the light?
4). What is paradox narrator has about invisibility, i.e. what does he infer at end of prologue about his aliveness?
–For Smith: What do you make of how Smith relates the Ellison text to today’s existence?
