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English 2367

Textual Response

Argument Analysis

Value: 15% of final grade

Length: At least 1,000 polished words

Format: Typed and appropriate for the rhetorical situation, adhering to MLA format

Deadlines for Process Work and Drafts: See the syllabus course schedule

The first assignment you will compose in our course inquiry of “Everything’s an Argument” is an analysis of a text that makes an argument about a topic you are interested in researching and writing about throughout this course.

The purpose of your essay is to understand how your chosen text achieves its intended effects by identifying the strategies the author uses to persuade their intended audience, thus showing how the argument does (or doesn’t) work. Your stance may reveal your interest in the topic, but your focus will be on your analysis of the text. Questions your essay might explore include the following: What kind of text is this? Who is the intended audience? What is the text’s argument—what does the writer want the audience to believe, feel, or do? How does this text work—what are the various components? Are there any patterns? What strategies does the writer use? How do these components and strategies affect the message of the text? What is the rhetorical effect, the effect on the audience?

Your audience for this assignment includes your classmates and instructor, and depending on the one you choose, we may or may not be familiar with this text. However, we are all interested in learning about strategies and techniques writers use that we might employ in composing our own arguments.

Within the academic genre of argument analysis—including MLA format—you may play with media and design elements to help achieve your purpose for readers, including the use of visuals.

Criteria for Evaluation

As with all major assignments in the course, you will be evaluated using the standard English 2367 Writing Assignments Grading Rubric. The following are
additional major essay requirements specific to this assignment and genre:

· Compose a summary or description of the text.

· Pay attention to the context.

· State your interpretation or judgment about how the argument in the text works (or doesn’t work) clearly in your thesis.

· Provide reasonable support for your conclusions by analyzing specific examples from the text that you quote and/or paraphrase and cite.

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Shiyu Wang

Project Pre-writing

Video link

Q1

I chose the video because it expresses on current issues that affects everyone. Motivation topic is common and everyone has a unique version about it.

Q2

The speaker is a student and has a leadership position under the Youth Council. The information he shared have inspired some people. Based on the comments those who viewed the video appreciated the content. The topic of the speech is motivation and the winning strategy. I consider the speech inspiring and educative.

Q3

The speaker is Brendan Clark who is sharing his philosophy of the winning strategy and motivation. Brendan is the director of Barnstable Youth Council and this itself indicates the kind of dedication, hard work and motivation he has towards his work. The audience would perceive him as young, passionate and hardworking man.

Q4

The video was done in February 29, 2016 and it focused on the issue of motivation and winning strategy. The speech is generally handling day-to-day issues that people encounter and advises everyone to have motivation which contributes to winning the set objectives or goals. What people might think about the topic is how they will use motivation to achieve their desired goals.

Q5

The speech explains the contribution of motivation to a success of a project. Motivation is what people have when focusing on things they are passionate about. It also describes that it looks interesting when an individual finds motivation on something they are not interested about. Motivation involves putting yourself on someone else shoes to solve the issue of doubts and questions reasons to do something that someone would appreciate.

Q6

Motivation is a concept that I need most in my academic life to deal with the obstacles and focus more to achieve my academic dreams and goals.

Q7

Motivation is a concept that every reader or viewer require in daily life and the benefits towards the winning strategy. It is important to feel motivated and put work on your tasks in a way that somebody can notice the effort and appreciate the hard work.

Q8

Motivation is the key to success, Motivation keeps the spirit high and the third title is that motivation drives progress.

Q9

In relation to the video the motivation topic is relevant……

Furthermore, motivation is an additional benefit to an individual’s passion….

Q10

I consider the speaker’s discussion on motivation as an important concept that applies to everyone that has a goal or an objective to attain.

Q11

“It looks interesting when an individual finds motivation on something they are not interested about”. “Filing of papers might not be interesting but at the end you are helping people”.

Q12

In my project I would consider inspire and encourage my audience on the importance of hard work amend also motivation in all their daily activities based on my success of becoming the best literature student.

Q13

The readers would benefits from the speech on matters of motivation and best ways to apply motivation and achieve the winning goal.

Q14

The sources appropriate for my project include importance of personal motivation on the career success. The other topic is the objectives and goals of motivation.

Reference

Clark Brendan (2016). Self Motivation. Retrieved from:

https://youtu.be/rLXcLBfDwvE.

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ENGL 2367

Writing Project 1 Prewriting Sheet

1. Explain what speech/video you chose and why. Include a URL so we can easily go there to watch it and you can get back there easily.

2. Just below every video talk there are categories of material that you should read through, such as “Details” (information about the speaker), “Transcript” (use this to check the accuracy of your quotes when you want to quote from the talk), “Footnotes” or “Reading List” (there are often related resources here) and “Comments” (see what the conversation about the video has been like—what do people agree with, question, have concerns about, etc.). Skim these categories and make notes below about what you see and what could be useful to you as you explain the speaker, the context for the speech, and how other people feel/what they think about the speech.

3. Write out everything you can about who the speaker is—anything relevant to how the audience would likely perceive him/her.

4. Write out everything you can about the context for the speech (date, situation, what current events might be in people’s mind about this topic, etc.)

5. Write out all the points the speaker made in the speech below:

6. Explain your personal connection to the topic of the speech.

7. Write out at least 1-2 possibilities for with your controlling idea: a few sentences that convey how and why this topic could be useful/relevant to your readers in their daily lives. Write in complete sentences and try to write them as you would write them into your project, being specific, clear, and thorough.

8. Write 3-5 titles below that are possibilities for your paper. Don’t worry about making them perfect; just play around and try out different vocabulary and phrasing. Your titles should try to catch readers’ attention and convey not just your topic but also your controlling idea. Try also to write titles in different styles (questions, statements, a topic + colon + explanatory information, etc.) Review The Norton Field Guide to Writing chap. 34, 4th ed. for ideas.

9. Write out a few possible first sentences for your introduction paragraph. Avoid starting with something vague/general/broad. Start with something catchy for readers to pull them in, such as a brief personal anecdote, a startling statistic or fact, etc. (see The Norton Field Guide to Writing chap. 33, 4th ed., for ideas).

10. Each body paragraph will need to start with a topic sentence that explains in your own words how/why one of the points the speaker makes could be useful to your audience to consider. Write below some possibilities for topic sentences. Write in complete sentences and try to write them as you would write them into your project, being specific, clear, and thorough.

11. List at least 3-4 quotes from the speech that you think you might focus on in your project. Quote complete sentences, provide context for each quote, and use signal phrases and quotation marks properly.
12. You’ll need to include personal experience examples in this paper. Think back to your work on Writing Project 1, the narrative essay, if you took English 1100. That project practiced habits of using vivid description and narration to engage readers and show them what you mean rather than just telling them. In general it’s more interesting and helpful to go into depth with personal experience examples (narrating a few minutes of one particular day, for example) rather than generalizing over large amounts of time. Write below at least two small narratives you could tell in your project (actually write them as they would appear in your paper).

13. In your paragraphs, you’ll need to try to always explain not only the speaker’s idea but also other perspectives on that issue that your readers could benefit from hearing about. Write below some questions, concerns, or other ways of seeing the issue that your readers might have that you could raise and respond to.

14. In your paper you’ll need to include a minimum 2-4 credible and substantial sources, at least one of which supports/further explains one or more of the speaker’s points, and at least one of which presents alternate perspectives. Write below some ideas for source material you’d like to find.