Friday, April 16, 2010

Week 5 - Considering Audience

ASSIGNMENTS

Minor Writing Assignment: Eliminating Clichés and Trite Expressions:

Complete Exercise 7, pages 104-105 in your textbook.  Read the paragraph as a whole and make sure you followed the Standard Rules of English. It is also recommended that you use spell check.  Submit your assignment to your instructor

Project Reminder:

For Part C1 of your project, you are asked to state and support three claims for your side of the topic.

See project description document for the complete project and the details.

FOR NEXT WEEK

Read in text, Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader, Chapter 5, “Researching Arguments: Thinking Like an Investigator,” pp. 106-135.

Project Part C1

You will now carefully present evidence to support the claim you are making for your side of the topic.
Tasks:

1. Determine three claims to make for you side of your topic.
2. Develop one to three paragraphs of evidential support for each of your three claims.