Order Number |
636738393092 |
Type of Project |
ESSAY |
Writer Level |
PHD VERIFIED |
Format |
APA |
Academic Sources |
10 |
Page Count |
3-12 PAGES |
Assignment
500 words!
Choose a subject appropriate for a narrative essay, using one specific experience from your own life.
Your body paragraphs will take the reader through the story itself; your introduction and conclusion will situate the story.
You will use first person in this essay.
Bring your description skills to your work! I look forward to seeing your richly describe the setting, characters, and actions.
Dialogue is acceptable but not necessary. I’d rather have you write the scenes and events without significant or lengthy dialogue.
Make sure that you follow the narrative arc and have the story grow from a central problem that provides the story’s purpose and exigence.
Grading Overview (also: see our rubric)
Sensory details — do you paint a clear picture of your moment and scene for the reader?
Organization and development – do you use transitions that work to improve the flow of your paper? Does your paper have a chronology to order it?
Focus and perspective – please do not refer to the act of writing the paper or the assignment itself.
Dominant impression – what idea do you want your reader to come away with after reading your story?
Mechanics – see your textbook, or visit the Learning Center (or Net Tutor), for help with this.
Suggesting In Terms of Writing in General
Thinking and Reflecting Paper
There are lots of ways to think and reflect on writing, and what it means in our lives. As everyday writers, the writing in our lives can have many purposes. We might write to organize our thinking, or write to convey our thinking about something (as the 5 Tips suggests). We might write for therapeutic reasons (as the second reading suggests) or for expression. We might write for work, for school, for entertainment, or to get something done or persuade an audience to do something (as the Rhetorical Situation PowerPoint tells us).
In the essay you write later in this project, you will discuss the uses for writing in different ways and in different contexts. Let’s look at what the readings are suggesting in terms of writing in general, and the rhetorical decisions a writer might make.
A rhetorical decision is any writing or communication decision you make that takes into account some aspect of your audience, your purpose, the genre, the context, and more. All these elements make up the rhetorical situation. There is a rhetorical situation every time you write, even in a simple text. There is a rhetorical situation for every meme, for every tweet, for a school essay, for an email to your professor, for an application to be an RA in your dorm, etc. Every utterance, every communication of print, digital, or visual mode, has a rhetorical situation. And every writer can tailor their writing more effectively by considering the rhetorical situation for the occasion in which they are writing.
Purpose is an important element to consider, and is usually tied to audience. When there is a purpose for writing, the audience is usually the next factor to consider: “I know why I’m writing, now who am I writing it for?” And vice versa.
READINGS
“5 Tips: What it means to think critically” Lisa Labarca, TED-Ed (alternate link: Docx)
tool by Arielle Cheroot (alternate link: PDF)
Purpose in Writing, from the Purdue OWL
Infographic on Purpose in Writing, SUNY-New Plat
ASSIGNMENT
In about 250 to 500 words, respond to the following:
Briefly summarize what critical thinking is, and what makes it important in your writing?
Summarize the main ideas of the Well-Being article. What other uses for reflection might there be?
The author of the Well-Being article includes many different kinds of evidence to support their ideas about writing, including quotes from experts and statistical information from research studies. What are three pieces of evidence, besides their own experiences and opinions, that the author uses? How does each piece of evidence support the author’s purpose?
How do you think an understanding of your purpose in a writing situation or rhetorical situation might help you connect to your audience? What about the opposite — if you understand your audience can you determine your purpose? Give a hypothetical example of audience and purpose from your everyday writing.