ENGL 147N

Main Post Part 1: Read and Respond After thoroughly reading the Week 8 lesson and the required textbook pages, go back and re-read, specifically, the articles from the assigned Week 8 textbook page s. Ask yourself: In the textbook readings, which statements in these articles inspire me? How and why? Do any statements bother me? How and why?” Take careful notes, jotting down quotations and your reactions to them, based on those questions. After you have given good time and attention to this pro...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Lesson Week 8 Assignment 1 TemplatePreview the document This assignment is an exciting chance for you to address the cou rse outcomes in a new and personalized manner. You will consider the next year in four “chunks” of months. Based on your passions and uses for argument in different areas of your life, you will evaluate possible argument scenarios, considering audience and argument techniques. This assignment will al...

Initial Post Instructions Main Post Part 1: Attach Your Draft and Explain Your Goals After you have thoroughly read and revisited this week’s lesson, you will be ready to perform rich, authent ic, expansive, useful peer reviews for your classmates. This is one tool of several that you will use during the important process of revision. During revision, you will “re-vision” your writing to find ways to improve argument, focus, support, organization, voice, and all other aspects of an argumen...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Lesson One presentation medium such as Prezi, narrated PowerPoint, video, screen capture, or another with which you are familiar and comfortable. Check out the sample presentation for this assignment! Play media comment. Your Week 6 assignment is a brief and fun one. It allows you to think “outside the box” about your issue and stance. The title of the assignment is a bit silly and intriguing, but the idea is that you ...

Initial Post Instructions Main Post: Share “Good to Great” Techniques You Picked up in Your Textbook Readings To begin, look over the readings (sample essays/articles) of the text. Read as m any as you’d like; you do not need to choose just one. You are not evaluating one essay in this discussion (although you may work with just one if you would like). Rather, you are evaluating argument techniques, effective word choice and transitions, the author’s voice, and the development of points ...

ENGL 147N Week 6 Quiz (Logical Fallacies) Question: Match the following Oversimplifying Logical Fallacies to their definitions Hasty Generalization Forced Hypothesis Post Hoc Fallacy Overstatem ent Non Sequitur False Dilemma False Analogy Slippery Slope Question: Match the following Fallacies the Result from Avoiding the Truth to their definitions Red Herring Ad Hominem Ad Populum Begging the Question Bandwagon Straw Man Question: Match the following Fallacies to their examples Post Hoc Fallacy ...

Question: Which of the following would be the most helpful comment on a peer review sheet in the section on “balance” in writing? Question: Which of the following is the best goal for peer review ? Question: Which of the following is not a good phrase to describe the role of a peer reviewer? Question: Which of the following is the least helpful statement about the importance of peer review? Question: After your classmate has posted a full peer review of your draft to the discussion board, wh...

Question: Match the following Fallacies to their examples Overstatement Ad Populum False Dilemma Bandwagon Slippery Slope Red Herring False Analogy Begging the question Ad Hominem Straw Man Show Less

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: pp. 157-173 Lesson Sample Presentation Preview the document Instructions For this assignment, complete the following: Review from the lesson and textbook readings the types of logical fallacies and examples. Locate three advertisements online that were posted no later than one year ago. The advertisements may be any of the following types, and they do not need to all be the same type: Advertisements for products,...

Initial Post Directions You need to write 2 paragraphs for the Initial Post. Main Post Paragraph 1: Share Your Thoughts on Annotated Bibliographies When you started this class, did you fully understand the definition of an “annotated bibliography”? Based on your textbook and lesson readings for this week, what do you now understand an annotated bibliography to be? Have you been guilty of “cherry picking” from the sources you write about? Explain. In what ways do you anticipate your annot...