...Communication Writing Assignment 2 – Persuasive Message Below you will find four documents: 1. The assignment itself – pages 2-3 2. A template to follow in writing the message called for in the assignment – page 4 3. A sample message that you can use as a model – page 5 4. The criteria that will be used in grading the message – page 6 Please read all of these carefully and let me know if you have questions about any of them. Please also see the model persuasive message on page 139 (Chapter 8) of the textbook, as well as the Week 2 discussion of two possible versions of a persuasive message. In Week 3, please save your assignment draft, as a Word document, using the file name “2yourlastname1,” and post it in the Week 3 Writing Assignment 2 Draft Dropbox by midnight Sunday. In Week 4, please re-save your assignment revision using the file name “2yourlastname2,” and post it in the Week 4 Writing Assignment 2 Revision Dropbox by midnight Sunday. Please use the following basic formatting: • Memo heading (see page 87 of the textbook) • One-inch margins all around • Left-only justification • 12-point regular Times New Roman font. (Although 11-point Calibri is Word’s default font, serif fonts like Times New Roman are more reader friendly for longer texts because the serifs draw the eye forward, while sans-serif fonts like Calibri are more effective for very brief texts in which you want to hold the eye.) Please let me know if you...
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...everyone. Two articles discussing this topic are Mike Rose’s “My View: Should Everyone Go to College?” and Karen R. Lawrence’s article “What Value Really Means in Higher Education”. The articles similarly talk about how college is the best choice for one’s success in the future; however, the two articles differ in their overall messages they are trying to convey to the reader. Mike Rose’s focus is to make the readers who are potential college students think about college as a strong option. Rose uses his own personal life experiences, along with specific facts about education to paint a picture of how higher education is a viable option. On the other hand, Lawrence uses a more direct and sterile approach to convince her audience, of educational professionals, to focus on teaching specific abilities to their students. Karen Lawrence’s purpose is to persuade the reader that higher education should give one the tools needed to be successful in the real world beyond an immediate earning potential. The basis of her article is to illustrate the specific skills that need to be taught in higher education. She tries to convince the reader that college is about becoming a better version of one’s self. She describes a place where the student’s skills are sharpened, so he or she will succeed in the real world. Both authors use a multitude of persuasive elements in their articles, however, Mike Rose identifies better with the reader on a personal level, appears credible, and uses his sources...
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...Justine Sacco‟s Life.”1 LENGTH: 750-1000 words PURPOSE: The purpose of the assignment is to compose a persuasive response to Ronson‟s piece based on your opinion and with support from facts. It is an exercise in concise and persuasive writing. SUBMISSION: Upload your assignment via Sakai. Go to „Assignment Submission & Feedback‟, click on Assignment 2, and click „Add Attachments‟. You will upload your assignment as a single file. PARAMETERS: ALL files must be uploaded as either a .doc or a .pdf file. Mac users: - you can convert a Pages document into a word .doc by going to the menu bar and choosing: „File‟ – „Export‟– „Word‟ Files that cannot open and/or incorrect files will receive a grade of 0. We will not be tracking down assignments. Check and double check to ensure that the file is attached and the correct file was submitted. After submitting, definitely review your submission so you can see/confirm the file was submitted. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have uploaded your file into Sakai. You have a maximum of 5 re-submission attempts BEFORE the deadline passes. Late assignments will receive a grade of 0. Assignments sent via e-mail will receive a grade of 0. 1 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?smid=fbshare&_r=0 1 A GUIDE TO THE EDITORIAL What is an editorial? Generally speaking, an editorial is a letter or an opinion published in a newspaper. ...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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...an unknown writer is a very informative and persuasive article. The author was successful as informing and persuading me in this article. The unknown author’s purpose seems to be to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks threw a sort of legal and biased point of view. The first sentence in the article starts, “the restrictive agreement between the government and the family of the unknowing HeLa cells donor was welcome and long overdue” (Henrietta Lacks), this tells that the author knew and understood the wrongfulness that was done to Henrietta Lacks. The author uses most of the eight elements in the article, and makes it very informative and persuasive to a person that has no prior knowledge of the story of Henrietta Lacks. Using the element of critical thinking is...
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...10 Steps to Effective Copywriting This tutorial is designed to get you up and running with the basics of writing great copy in ten easy lessons. Afterward, you’ll get recommendations for professional training, plus links to tutorials on SEO copywriting and writing killer headlines. 1. Don’t Read This or the Kitty Gets It! 2. To Be or Not To Be? 3. How to Write Headlines That Work 4. Why Writing Headlines Deserves a Second Installment 5. The Structure of Persuasive Copy 6. Now Featuring Benefits! 7. “Kids Eat Free” and Other Irresistible Offers 8. This Article Rocks. . . I Guarantee It! 9. The Long and Short of Copywriting 10. The #1 Secret to Great Copy Is. . . Don’t Read This or the Kitty Gets It! Poor Fluffy. I asked you not to do this, and you’ve gone and broken the rules. Things don’t look good for this cute little kitten I’ve taken hostage in case my demands were not met. She is awfully sweet, though. We’ll just have to wait until later on in the article to decide the fate of Fluffy. But first, we really do need to discuss the ultimate goal of good copywriting. Stick with me and I’ll go easy on the cat, deal? Let’s get started. What is the primary purpose of any piece of writing that you put out online — whether a blog post, a networking email, a sales letter or a tutorial? For starters, to get what you’ve written read, right? Makes sense. So, what’s the primary purpose of your headline, your graphics, your fonts, and every other...
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...A topic can be very convincing depending on the different point of view someone reads from. In the classic “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli, the overall persuasiveness is heightened using many persuasive techniques. His book has does not refer to a certain specifics so the ideas could reach more people and be more adaptive. He refers to many names and events in order to establish his knowledge and authority. And he states everything with absolute conviction that will take on all of his peers’ works at the time. Niccolò writes in a very convincing manner using a very conclusive style show a new point of view to the people so they can accept this books’ unorthodox ideals. One way Niccolò Machiavelli introduce people to his ideas, is writing in a very open way so that many readers relate or apply them. He does this by not giving using a proper noun to name this prince’s kingdom. The book harshly states, ”it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states.“ (67). The “prince” he speaks of is an allusion for those who rule with with power and he means that the leader of a country will lose his power if he neglects a militaristic mindset. This allusion is effectively used over the entire book and can be applied to most leaders as well like a CEO or even a manager on a team. It is certain that bosses and manager are feared and demanding responsibly, and that teamwork owe much to them being like that. The way the content is sorted by chapters...
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...different languages, the issues of translation are generated. After reading Alberto Rios essay – Translating Translation: Finding the Beginning, I know Rios understands languages and translation in complex and stratified ways, from cultures and manners. He writes “Language is more than what we say – it’s also how we say it, and whether or not we even understand what we are saying. ” in his short essay (508). It can be understood easily why Rios pays so much attention to languages and translation. He grew up on the southwestern borderlands, having a Mexican father and an English mother. (504) The place he grew up is a place where cultures of the United States and Mexico meet and collide. Based on his own experience of dealing with different cultures and different languages, he points out how to say is more significant than what we say. The elements making his essay to be persuasive and compelling is worth to be analyzed, such as his personal background, the examples of his experience he gives, the way he arrange the examples and the his unique writing style. Rios’ personal background not only determine the topics he prefers to write about languages, but also make his writing on these topics become more convincing because he experiences many problems of languages and...
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...An Doan Ms. Valtinson ENGL 1113-08 May 1, 2015 Individuality through Transferability Writing is something that everyone does. Whether one likes it or not, they end up using their words. People tend to write about subjects that interest or relate to them. Everyone has their own way of writing, but their way was influenced by another source whether they know it or not. Individuality in writing is influenced through transferability. Technical writing is something that is learned. In school everyone was taught how to format an essay or different types of writing like poems or stories. Anything that I did in class I was always given a template of how the instructor wanted the paper to be written. This would have word count, the format, and what the paper should be about. All throughout school we learned the fundamentals of writing starting with letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, to structures of writing like essays and poems. The thing that is learned from writing is technical. As my English education grows the technical side is less focused on while the content is the most important thing. Content is the writing that I am doing now. The content portion of writing is not learned but influenced by others. My writing becomes influenced through examples like essays. In this English class, I believe that that’s how these three previous essays worked out. The Scholarly Discourse Unit paper was a paper that had us synthesize how we thought the writers Gee, Swales, and Porter...
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...CHAP TER Rhetorical Modes 1. NARRATION L E A R N I N G O B J E C T I V E S 10 1. Identify the purpose and structure of narrative writing. 2. Recognize how to write a narrative essay. Rhetorical modes simply mean the ways in which we can effectively communicate through language. This chapter covers nine common rhetorical modes. As you read about these nine modes, keep in mind that the rhetorical mode a writer chooses depends on his or her purpose for writing. Sometimes writers incorporate a variety of modes in one essay. In covering the nine rhetorical modes, this chapter also emphasizes these as a set of tools that will allow you greater flexibility and effectiveness in communicating with your audience and expressing your ideas. rhetorical modes The ways in which we effectively communicate through language. 1.1 The Purpose of Narrative Writing Narration means the art of storytelling, and the purpose of narrative writing is to tell stories. Any time you tell a story to a friend or family member about an event or incident in your day, you engage in a form of narration. In addition, a narrative can be factual or fictional. A factual story is one that is based on, and tries to be faithful to, actual events as they unfolded in real life. A fictional story is a made-up, or imagined, story; the writer of a fictional story can create characters and events as he or she sees fit. However, the big distinction between factual and fictional narratives is based on a writer’s purpose...
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...paper helped me grow as a writer even more than the previous two essays we have done. The reason I feel this way is because as I was beginning to write the paper I caught myself analysing what I was writing from the beginning, and not just waiting to look back at the end. My writing style matured also while writing this paper. I realized what words to avoid and found acceptable words to replace the ones I could not use. These are reasons I believe I grew as a writer from this one paper. Even though I did grow as a writer through this paper it does not mean it was a smooth writing process. Researching was not hard because I already had most of my sources and new exactly what I was looking for in the new articles I had to find. Once I had all of the sources I needed to write this paper is when the challenges appeared. I had troubles finding a good introduction to start my paper, and my thesis was not turning out how I wanted it to. After I finally got an introduction that was decent I focused on writing my body paragraphs. Organization was something I had struggled with in the past, so I spent time deciding what order I should write ideas in each paragraph. This was frustrating at times because it seemed like no matter how I organized the details it did not...
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...English II: Sophomore Writing Catalfano Writing Mode: Persuasive Research Due: Please upload your essay to turnitin.com by the assigned due date. Late papers will incur the typical 10% per day late grade deduction. Length: Between 700 and 850 words for College Prep students; between 850 and 1000 words for Honors students. Format: Typed, double-spaced, 10-point Times New Roman font. Grading: 60 points, graded according to the standard rubric. (Note: this paper will also require two or three “checkpoints,” each of which is worth 10 points.) Topic Selection: What do you care about? This is a persuasive research paper, which means you are taking a position on a contemporary issue that you care about and setting out to prove that your position is correct with strong, convincing sources. How many sources? * at least four sources for College Prep students * at least six sources for Honors students Of course, you need to set out to support an idea that is capable and worthy of being supported—not something completely obvious. Because one of the major course objectives is to write about what you believe in (as you find your writing voice), you will be allowed to choose your own topic for this persuasive research paper, so long as it is not a topic you have written about already for another class (remember: your intellectual and personal integrity should be important to you, so research something new to you, which is most of the “fun” of research)...
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...essays, like all forms of writing, implicitly or explicitly take a stand, make an argument. To grow as critical readers – and thinkers – we must be able to analyze and make our own interpretations of what a given piece of writing is trying to teach us, to persuade us. For this reason, your first essay in WRTG 2010 asks you to develop an interpretation of one of the following essays: * Benjamin Franklin’s “Arriving at Perfection” * Annie Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels” - Zora Neale Hurston’s “Colored Like Me” As DiYanni explains in the Introduction to 50 Great Essays, an interpretation is not a summary; in fact, interpreting what an essay means can only happen once the reader has not only an accurate grasp of the content but has also gone further to observe details, connect those details, and make inferences about the author’s argument based on those details. Your interpretation, then, will not be a summary of your selected essay; instead, it will be your argument as to a primary meaning and persuasive purpose of the essay. As with any piece of writing, an essay can have multiple interpretations; thus, your interpretation should be arguable, debatable, forcing you to support it with enough analysis of the text to reveal to your own readers the validity of your interpretation. You should move beyond simply “what” the author is saying to “how.” Why, for example, does Dillard choose the weasel...
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...Writing to Convince Argumentative and Persuasive Essays Sometimes we write to defend an opinion, to argue against somebody’s point of view, or to convince readers why and how we think a certain problem should be settled. The argument we develop should be a logical, properly thought-out presentation of ideas that makes a claim about an issue and supports that claim with evidence. Within this general frame, our argument consists of four basic components: (1) an issue, (2) a claim, (3) support, and (4) a recognition and refutation of the opposing view. A. The Issue. An argument is concerned with an issue – a case (like war, smoking, cloning, etc.) on which people hold opposite or different opinions. To build a convincing argument about an issue, it is essential that we be aware of the audience we are addressing: • Agreeing audience: When you write to people who already agree with your claim, the focus is usually to urge them to take a specific action and build emotional ties with them. • Neutral audience: In writing to a neutral audience, try to emphasize the importance of the issue and offer explanations that clear up your readers’ questions or misunderstandings about, or lack of interest in it. • Disagreeing audience: The most challenging audience combines people whose viewpoints contrast with yours; they may be hostile to your claim and have strong feelings about the issue. In writing to a disagreeing audience, your goal is to convince readers to consider...
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...The essays on the Declaration of Independence and the Letter from Birmingham jail, are very good persuasive essays, and that if I was alive during those times that I would have agreed with all of the authors. I also believe that these essay still stand today. First let’s start with the Declaration of Independence. In this essay Jefferson uses deductive argument’s that includes the examples on how Great Britain’s doings were wrong. It also gave me a chance to see how exactly why the United Sates broke away from Great Britain. One of the arguments is “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men” (Jefferson, pg. 365). That means any legitimate government is created to protect the peoples’ rights such as, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” (Jefferson, pg. 365). Throughout the essay Jefferson shows how Great Britain is not protecting our rights, but how they are interfering with them. For example, he states how the king keeps sending over soldiers and expect the people to house and to feed them. The soldiers were also allowed to break the laws in the colonies and they were not to be punished. Another strong that he made was “deriving their just power from the consent of the governed” (Jefferson, pg. 365). That means any power or authority that a government has is given to them by the consent of the people, but this right like many was abused to. Jefferson also wrote that they have “petitioned for redress” repeatedly, meaning that...
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