Building Block Essay 2

Building Block Essay 2 Assignment Sequence Reading Assignments: Envision (Text and Companion Website): Chapters 4-6 Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (WRAC): Chapter 7 and parts of Chapter 11 (see below) Writing Assignments: JE4: Read Envision Chapter 5 (Text and Website). Read pp. 217-237 in WRAC. Based on the WRAC readings, do the Argument Synthesis on pp. 213-14, consulting the rest of the section (pp. 211-17) and earlier excerpts in WRAC (pp. 41-47 and pp. 176-82) as directed. RP4: Respond to two of your groupmates’ JEs by amplifying or rebutting at least one observation they have made about the sources in WRAC Chapter 7, or by adding an observation of your own that they may have missed. Comment on the manner in which they followed the template recommended in the Argument Synthesis. JE5: Read pp. 521-36 in WRAC. Read Envision Chapter 4 (Text and Website), then do Writing Project 2 on p. 134 on the topic you have tentatively chosen for your researched argument. Note: Classwide readings for the rest of the term from WRAC will focus on consumerism (for example, advertising and mall culture), education (for example, legacy admissions and sleep deprivation), and gender roles (for example, marriage, family and Cinderella retellings). Your researched argument topic should intersect with one of these broad areas. You may, as a result, want to read ahead in WRAC to Chapters 8, 10, and/or 12, assigned later in the term. RP5: Respond to two of your groupmates’ JEs using the guidelines in Writing Project 3 on p. 134. JE6: Read pp. 551-67 in WRAC. Read Envision Chapter 6 (Text and Website), then do Writing Project 2 on p. 217, building on and refining the research proposal you developed in JE5 and RP5. RP6: Respond to two of your groupmates’ JEs by reviewing at least one primary or secondary source they have cited in their detailed written outline. Amplify or rebut at least one observation they make about this source, or add an observation of your own about this source that they may have missed. Also comment on the placement of this source in the larger outline of their researched argument.

Building Block Essay Draft 2: Refine the detailed written outline into a draft of a researched and documented argument on a topic relating to consumerism, education, or and/or gender roles. Writer’s Memo 3: Discuss which of the course goals and objectives you believe you have developed through your essay and explain how and where your essay demonstrates that development. Include this memo with the building block essay draft. Two Peer Evaluations (3-4): After reading two groupmates’ essays and memos, point out aspects of their essays that provide further evidence that they have developed course goals and objectives and indicate your suggestions on how they might enhance that development through further revisions of their essay. Send each peer evaluation by email to the groupmate and to me. Note: You will be reading drafts from two groupmates whose drafts you did not read during the first cycle or peer evaluations. Writer’s Memo 4: Having now read two new groupmates’ building block essay drafts and having received two peer evaluations and my comments, plot a strategy for how you will develop this essay further by the end of the term so that you will be able to use it to demonstrate more fully your development as a writer and reader of texts. Specifically, predict whether you will use the third building block essay assignment sequence to develop the topic you have chosen or whether you will apply the techniques you have developed to a new or only loosely related topic.