Week 7 Assignments
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Professor Rodgers
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This week, we will be preparing for the midterm exam, which you will take during Week 8.
- Week 7 Assignments
- Group Assignments DUE by
- RWA and LJ DUE by
- LEARNING JOURNAL 7
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Please spend 5 to 7 minutes free writing about some issue that you care deeply about and that you feel needs to be addressed by your community, your college, or the city, state, or federal government. Explain the three key reasons why this issue needs to be addressed to persuade your audience that some action needs to be taken regarding this issue immediately.
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GA7.1: Questions About the Midterm Exam
GA7.2: Please read over the excellent posts that your classmates made about Paragraphs and about Thesis Statements
RWA7: Preparing for the Midterm Exam
Our midterm exam will consist of your writing an in-class argumentative response essay to Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” There are two purposes for the midterm exam: 1/ to give you practice writing a thesis-based argumentative essay and 2/to prepare you for the final exam. To start preparing for this exam, which you will complete during Week 8 of our course, I’d like you to first to review the assignment from Week 6, and your course notes and handouts. You have already developed a draft thesis and outline for this essay. What you will be doing next week is writing the essay in class. In class today, I handed out a sample argumentative response essay by Trent Batson. You can access a copy of this essay by clicking here. If you have any comments to share with our class about this essay, its thesis statement, its topic sentences, or its overall argument, please feel free to do so in reply to this post.
Finally, please actively read over the following resources on approaches to and guidelines for argumentative essay writing:
Paradigm Overview of the Thesis/Support Essay
They Say I Say (Read Introduction)
The Norton Field Guide Introduction to Argumentation
LJ
I think NYC need to address to have a regulation for pricing of house rent because the price has continued to rise even though incomes stagnated or declined. Lots of people living in NYC face to find a affordable house.
GW7.1
1.What types of questions would be? Only writing an essay? Or would grammar questions be in the Midterm Exam?
2.We read the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and the response paper by Trent Batson. When we write our own response paper, should we follow the writing style of Trent Batson’s paper?
Thanks for this post, Nami. You do not need to post your LJ assignment. You are the only audience for those. However, since you did post it, I must make a comment, which is, it seems a bit short. Did you write for ten minutes? If not, please do. Regarding your question about the midterm exam, you will be writing an argumentative essay in response to Carr’s article. My hope was that Batson’s essay might be one model you could follow. You can also use evidence from that essay in developing your own argument for your essay.