Purpose and technique
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WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
Analyze the purpose and technique of a short article you have read as part of your research for a major research project. The audience for your analysis will be someone who shares your research interest.
In an essay of 500 words, analyze the purpose and technique of a chapter in an elementary textbook on a subject you know well. Consider how effectively the chapter introduces the subject to a beginning student. The reader of your analysis will be a teacher who must decide whether to use the textbook in a course next semester.
In an essay of 500 words, analyze the purpose and technique of one of the following selections. The readers of your analysis will be your classmates. Later compare in discussion with your classmates the different designs of the three selections. a. Yale Kamisar's argument against active euthanasia on page 74. b. Cheryl Smith's argument for active euthanasia on page 74. c. The anonymous essay “It's Over, Debbie” on page 74.
As a college student majoring in political science, you have been invited back to your high school to discuss with a tenth-grade social studies class how politicians appeal to voters. Find in a newspaper a recent speech by a local or national political figure the students would recognize. Prepare a short talk for the class explaining what the politician is hoping to accomplish in the speech and the techniques the politician uses to achieve this effect.
On an issue you feel strongly about, find two written statements in speeches, articles, pamphlets, or the like that forcefully present two opposite positions. One side you approve of and the other you oppose. In order to convince your classmates that yours is the more rational or otherwise preferred position, analyze both statements to show how the statement you oppose uses underhanded techniques to enlist reader support, whereas the statement you agree with gains reader support through honorable, reasonable, or otherwise better means. Download 0.53 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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