Category: English

it’s is rhetorical essay
now that you have read about, watched the PowerPoint on and taken the quiz on rhetorical analysis, let’s discuss how to structure your essay. Here is your prompt:
Paper 1 – Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Everyone uses rhetoric to achieve his/her goals and desires. Some goals and desires seem unimportant; others are obviously a bit more important.
Having read the transcript of the TED Talk by Shawn Achor: “The Happy Secret to Better Work.” and having watched it, analyze its rhetoric.
Decide on the speaker’s purpose and argument, then, analyze which rhetorical strategies he uses to develop said purpose and argument. Why are these effective or why are they not effective?
You must also include a Works Cited page with your paper.
Be sure your paper is well-organized with a clear thesis. Each paragraph should have a clear topic sentence and concluding sentence. It must be typed. Staple your outline and rough draft underneath your final draft and the rubric should be last.
Your paper should be 3 – 4 double-spaced typed pages and MLA formatted – one-inch margins and 12-point font. Use a MLA heading and a header. If a draft is not turned in, your final paper grade will be lowered by one letter grade.
Remember – I do not take late papers.
Here are the steps to take to organize your essay:
1. Prewrite and Outline
A. Do the rhetorical square. Decide on Achor’s purpose, argument, audience and persona.
Keep in mind purpose and argument are very similar, but they are not the same. Purpose
is the “what” – what the writer or speaker wants us to do or believe. Argument is the “how”
he/she persuades us – does he use ethos, pathos, logos, humor, anecdotes (stories),
diction, syntax, parallelism, etc? There are so many language elements you can use for
your paper. You may use one element; you may use four. You may use as many as you
like. It’s your call. You’re the writer; you’re the boss. Audience is important, and you are
analyzing a TED Talk: What do you know about them? Who watches/listens to them?
Persona is oftentimes the hardest. Who is Achor in this TED Talk? Is he advocating,
informing, educating, selling? Is he sad, excited, angry, happy?
B. After you have your prewriting, you will share it on our Discussion Board.
C. After you have shared your prewriting and read your classmates’, do your outline.
Remember, outlines are 50 points, and format counts. Use the format I gave you in the
Writing Process PowerPoint.
2. Structure
A. Your thesis should have Achor’s purpose in it, as well as the rhetorical strategies you will
discuss in your paper.
Each topic sentence should tell the rhetorical strategy you will analyze in that paragraph,
for example, pathos or diction. Next, choose an example, and only choose one. For
example, if you are analyzing pathos, perhaps you will talk about Achor’s story of his
sister and how it made the audience feel. Then, analyze it. This is the most important
part: Why did Achor choose that story? Who cares? So what? Connect it to his
purpose. If you have more than one example per paragraph, you will not analyze each
one fully, so choose only one per paragraph.
B. If you choose to write about different rhetorical strategies, each paragraph should be a
different one. For example, one paragraph discussing pathos, one on anecdotes, one on
logos. If you choose to do your whole paper on pathos, each paragraph will be a different
example of pathos.
3. Do your outline and optional rough draft.
Note: Because our course is accelerated, I am not requiring a rough draft; however, the outline is still required. That being said, I highly recommend you submit a rough draft because I will still expect the final draft to be revised and polished.

Please no outside sources
Essay prompt
• First, review “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin; be sure you know what circumstance really caused Louise’s heart to fail upon seeing her husband alive after all: be aware of details like how she reacts to news of her husband’s death, how she perceives her relationship to him, and her resentment to his imposition of his will upon her.
• Second, as we see from the story “Once Aboard the Lugger,” Nance accepts the pattern imposed upon her of being a wife, and perhaps, a mother; how she becomes a wife is another matter. First, she reverses the usual gender roles of courtship in which the man makes the first touch, initiates the affection, offers the first kiss, and states the proposal of marriage; second, she steps out of her social status as a citizen of Ruan to do so. At what point in the story does she make a decision to do all the above, and what motivates her to do it? After all, after seeing Samuel preach his sermon and wondering what he would be like as a husband, she remembers she is a Ruan girl, not one of Troy, and she is prepared to forget all about him and take the ferry back home to dinner.
What changes her mind?
For Essay One, consider the following: D. H. Lawrence proposes, in his essay “Give Her a Pattern,” that men impose upon women patterns of behavior and customs, and men expect women to adhere to these patterns, the most general and persistent pattern being the expectation that every woman will become a wife and mother. This has been, and certainly was during the last two centuries, the role expected of every woman. You have read “The Story of an Hour” and “Once Aboard the Lugger.” Ask yourself, what patterns are Louise and Nance following? Are the patterns only the roles they are expected to follow, or does society place additional expectations upon them in regard to class?
Discuss how these women characters handle the patterns they follow in an essay due as a first draft for Tuesday, January 8. Introduce the essay by introducing the two short stories, “The Story of an Hour” and “Once Aboard the Lugger,” and how the stories present two women characters who follow the pattern of marriage, but explain in the essay how they handle the pattern, and for Nance, what additional patterns she is expected to follow in regard to class and courtship.
Please note: when writing about literature, whether fiction or non-fiction, we use present tense verbs when referring to the actions or speech of characters and authors. Thus, we use say, remark, comment, reply, utter and other present tense forms in place of said, remarked, commented, replied, uttered, and other past tense forms.
The reasoning is this: whenever you read the text, the author’s words are being read in the present, not in the past; you are reading the text now, and the author’s words are relevant to your experience of reading now. This practice of using present tense verbs in this way is called “the literary present.”
This idea also applies to song lyrics and poetry, which become relevant later in the course.
• When referring to the song’s lyrics or a performer’s performance of it, use the present tense verbs. You see, whenever you listen to the song, the performer is singing it now. We know objectively that the performer sang it, but for us the performer is singing it now.
• When we read the poem, we are reading it in the present; the action of the poem’s narrator speaking is present, not past.
Citing Sources in the essay
For citing your sources in the essay, the first time you provide a quote from Chopin, for example, use (Chopin 1) if it’s from page one, or (Chopin 2) if it’s from page two. As long as you’re still citing Chopin, only the page number in parentheses is necessary, like this: (2). If you’re citing Quiller-Couch, since he calls himself “Q,” you may do it this way, using “Q” and then the page number: (Q 5). As long as you’re still citing Q, only the page number in parentheses is necessary, like this: (5). This pattern will persist for each essay you write: as long as you’re quoting the same source, once you have provided the author and page number, successive citations need only be the page number in parentheses. As soon as you cite a different author, the author’s last name and the page number must be placed in the citation.

Watch the three videos.
Give a personal response to the three videos in one response paragraph. See annotated example in module.
1. In your response, include any similarities that you see among the three experiences.
2. Your first sentence should state the main point you wish to make in your response; then support that point throughout the rest of the paragraph.
3. Use first and third person voice. No second person (No you or your types of pronouns).
4. Incorporate a minimum of one quote or paraphrase from each video to support your response.
5. Add in-text citation and Works Cited page for the three videos.
6. Write in the present tense.
Format: MLA Formatting with header, double spacing, 1″ margins, 12 Point Times New Roman font, and title. See “Annotated Example” in Module and video.
Length: Minimum of one double spaced page – one paragraph.
Response suggestions.
What do you think is the point or purpose of the videos?
Do you think the videos achieved that purpose?
Describe any similarities that you found in the videos.
What did you find interesting in the videos?
What did you think of the messages in the videos?
Incorporate your personal response to the video. Did any of these stories have an impact on you? If so, how.
Did you think the videos adequately demonstrated any contemporary global events or customs.
Did you find gain a unique global perspective from the videos? If so, in what way.
Other comments that you would like to add.
After you type, revise, edit and proof your response, submit it to discussion forum by due date; then reply to two students per instructions in discussion forum.
Please review the following (3) links:

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A. Assignment Guidelines
DIRECTIONS: Refer to the list below throughout the writing process. Do not submit your Touchstone until it meets these guidelines.
1. Argumentative Thesis Statement
❒ Have you included a thesis in your introduction that takes a clear, specific position on one side of a debatable issue?
2. Argument Development
❒ Are all of the details relevant to the purpose of your essay?
❒ Is the argument supported using rhetorical appeals and source material?
❒ Is your essay 6-8 pages (approximately 1500-2000 words, not including your references or reflection question responses)? If not, which details do you need to add or remove?
3. Research
❒ Have you cited outside sources effectively using quotation, summary, or paraphrase techniques?
❒ Are the sources incorporated smoothly, providing the reader with signal phrases and context for the source information?
❒ Have you referenced a range of at least 7 credible sources?
❒ Have you properly cited your sources according to APA style guidelines?
❒ Have you included an APA style reference page below your essay?
4. Reflection
❒ Have you answered all reflection questions thoughtfully and included insights, observations, and/or examples in all responses?
❒ Are your answers included on a separate page below the main assignment?
B. Reflection
DIRECTIONS: Below your assignment, include answers to all of the following reflection questions.
1. Provide one example of a place where you have used rhetorical appeals or source material to support your argument. How does this enhance your essay? (2-3 sentences)
2.Touchstone 4 is a revision of this draft. What kind of feedback would be helpful for you as you revise? Are there parts of your draft that you’re uncertain of? (3-4 sentences)

Use process analysis to teach your audience how to do one of the step-by-step processes listed below. In addition to choosing a topic that aligns with your pathway/career field, I would strongly urge you to select a process that you feel you are uniquely qualified to teach. In other words, keep the focus on your own expertise and experience. Explain the process one step at a time, and be sure to provide your reader with enough detail to make each step clear. (Note: Although you will be explaining the steps of a process, do not write your essay as a numbered list. You must compose your essay in the traditional paragraph structure.)

Concept essay.
Concept is adults going back to school.
Has to be at least 1300 words. I only have 600!
Final Draft Word Count and Setup Requirement:
 1300-1500 words (plus a correctly formatted APA cover page)
 12-point Times New Roman font
 Double-spaced lines
 3rd person point of view
**** What I have ****
Introduction
Going back and trying to finish school when long past their twenties can be a frightening experience for adult students. When students start college fresh from High school, they have few responsibilities and fresh memory of the tools they’ve learned that will prepare them through the years. Students starting college years in their fifties will not only find it challenging but even downright impossible at times. While heading back to further education can be very exciting, challenges such as memory, responsibility, and financial hardship can prove to be even more intimidating,
1, Memory is a much-needed tool when continuing your education. Students fresh from high school have the benefits of young minds that are used to soaking up all that new information. Most of those students can adapt to change and new technology. Senior students need to not only be able to utilize information they learned back in high school, but they also must memorize even more education and of course do all this in the ever-changing twists technology has thrown into education. As the brain ages along with the student, it becomes harder and harder to call upon those lessons that were taken back in High School. So, a student beginning classes in their 50’s is challenged to pull forth memories of lessons that have barely been used since High school, while processing and memorizing even more education.
2, Most senior students have families and are faced with trying to balance their family household with their decision to go back to school. Juggling their homework along with their children’s homework and or their spouses work responsibilities is not just challenging, it’s a superhero fantasy at times. Running errands, the dishes, the cooking, the cleaning, the family bonding can sometimes push the senior students’ studies to the long past bedtime hours. Unless a lucky lottery ticket falls from the sky, most senior students are also working a 30-to-40-hour job. They must be able to go to work, keep focused on the job at hand all the while knowing there are chapters that need to be read, essays that need to be written, and tests that need to be studied for. All of this can lead to the potential of burning out from all angles, not just the student side of thing. Attempting to find a balance that is needed to keep juggling all those responsibilities, could make it very tempting to just give up.
3, Financial hardship is also a huge challenge when adults make the jump from thinking and wishing about going back to finish school, to taking the plunge. College tuition, even with the help of student loans can be overwhelming. Adult students have car payments, mortgages, grocery bills, utility bills and or childcare that they are already trying to manage without the monstrous college debt added to it. So many adults are parents that have spent year’s saving for their children’s college education so it can almost feel like spending any money on their own education is a possibility that is no longer a possibility. Thankfully there are many programs out there that will help with the tuition extras that are not covered by financial aid.
Conclusion
Adult students no doubt have a lot of challenges ahead of them. They need to prioritize their schedules so that they can balance the household chores, family obligations, and their school lessons as they are due. They need to constantly be aware and prepare for the inevitable hardships of the memory not being as sharp as it once was. While those challenges may make them feel like the degree is a very distant dream, with persistence and determination they will find their way to that graduation stage that alluded them for so long.

Use these writing notes as a way to gather your thoughts and determine your strategy for writing your persuasive essay. This process will allow you to develop a potential structure for effectively persuading readers to agree with your argument. Additionally, these notes will help keep your thought processes on track when you begin writing and revising your essay.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Describe the argument to be addressed in your persuasive essay. Explain how the argument relates to your major, the major you are considering pursuing, or your field of work.
Make certain your topic is debatable. Are you able to see at least two perspectives to this argument?
Identify the potential challenges you may encounter in supporting your argument with a specific audience.
First, state the audience you will be writing to.
Then address the challenges of supporting your argument with this audience.
Establish a goal that you hope to accomplish with this essay. What will this essay need to successfully meet your goal?
Determine three key points that will help support your argument.
Provide a brief description of at least two resources that support the key points of your argument.
First, list the authors and titles of each resource. These resources may be books or articles you identified in a previous assignment.
Then provide a brief description of how each resource may reinforce your argument.
Explain how you plan to effectively integrate evidence in the essay.

answer one of each question under each roman numeral (in italics) followthe same format as given. when reached roman numeral 2 “Engaging with theoretical perspectives” i have uploaded the discussion questions to amswer.

I will upload all the instructions and remember that you can choose one of the topics for the essay.

Using APA formatting, in a 1- to 2-page paper, write an essay comparing two contrasting attitudes on a controversial subject. You may want to contrast your views with those of someone else, or contrast the way you felt about the subject in the past with the way you feel right now.
Make sure you proofread and revise your essay before submitting.
Assignment Submission:
The use of outside resources is strongly recommended, and all papers must be cited and written in APA format.
Once you have completed the assignment, click the Submit Assignment option in the menu to the right and select a format for submitting your assignment.
Click the Submit Assignment button when you are ready.
Detailed Directions:
Choose any controversial topic that you want. The important part is that it has at least two points of view. I highly suggest that you check out procon.orgLinks to an external site. (Link will open in new tab.)
Find about three or four reasons to support each side of the argument. Again procon.org Links to an external site. (Link will open in new tab.)is awesome for this.
Organize your paper into four paragraphs
Paragraph 1: Introduction
Paragraph 2: Pro or con
Paragraph 3: Pro or con
Paragraph 4: Conclusion
If you want to write an unbiased comparison, it doesn’t matter whether you start with pro or con. However, if you have an opinion on the topic, you want to put the side you agree with in the third paragraph.
Don’t forget to include a reference!