Category: English

ESSAY # 1: Analysis of WALLS
Essay # 1 – Bias Versus Empathy from First-Hand Exposure (1,000 words minimum)  20 points.
DUE  May 24, 2024 (Open for Submission starting Week 6)
Texts: Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World. Chapter 3: “Hatred Versus Contact.” 52-73 
Marcello Di Cintio, WALLS: Travels Along the Barricades. “A Nakba of Olives: The West Bank Wall.” 100-129.
Objective: To explain and evaluate contact theory by applying it to Marcello Di Cintio’s experience at The West Bank Wall.
Research: Closely analyze a chapter from WALLS and note of Di Cintio’s developing opinions.
Guiding Questions: In Di Cintio’s example, did exposure reinforce bias or produce empathy? What appeals to pathos were evident, and were they effective? Which supplemental appeals had greater impact–ethos (ethics) or logos (logic)? What factors may have influenced these results? 
Outcome: a well-developed essay of about 1,500 words (approx. 10 paragraphs) of original* writing, incorporating quotes and analysis as needed and a substantial amount of personal reflection. 
Process Description: Choose an encounter that Di Cintio writes about during his time in Palestine, and reflect on how he felt a the beginning, his evolving point of view, and his final position. Did contact end up reinforcing his biases or strengthening his empathy?
Formulate your answer in a thesis statement placed at the end of your introduction. Develop body paragraphs describing the contact and resulting empathy or antipathy. Use these paragraphs to support your thesis. Add body paragraphs about other rhetorical appeals (covered in Week 3) that contribute to the resulting attitude. End with a reflective conclusion. 
[Your Week 3 Module breaks down this process into 10 steps]. 

FINAL TIMED WRITING
All instructions are on files but here is a summary.
Choose one of the ads in the (The final examination ads options) file.
Then In the (Final timed writing instructions) file. Choose one of the writing prompts listed to write about the ad you choose. No less than 500 words. You can choose any of the options i have no specific requirements. 
(Read the files I provided to understand the assignment better)

To state your prompt:
You will do a close textual reading of the novel for essay 3. Please pick one of the prompts below. No outside research is necessary unless you pick the final prompt. Your essay should be 5-7 pages. Please remember that any work that is plagiarized or not properly cited will receive an immediate score of a zero. Please remember that this is not a book report but a critical analysis of the book based around one of the prompts below. You should write a formatted essay with a number of quotes from the text to support your point.
Prompt 1:
Discuss the structure of the novel. In which ways is it unusual? In which ways does it complicate/challenge/provide an interesting approach to how you read the text?
**Please use a fair and appropriate tone and make this an academic paper. This isn’t about a personal narrative or rant pro or anti abortion but rather what the book is saying about gun violence/abortion/women’s rights as applicable to the characters in the novel. While you are all entitled to your own opinions, any paper deemed offensive or “preachy” will receive a non-passing grade.
h literary analysis handouts, in case you are unfamiliar with how to write a literary analysis.
5-7 pages; MLA; a minimum of 4 outside sources. (2 can be the ones I’ve listed, a minimum of 2 should be of your own finding).

For this order you will be focusing on writing a very well written paragraph for my final. This paragraph does NOT need to be and shouldn’t be an introduction paragraph. INSTRUCTIONS: You are asked to compose one well-constructed paragraph, with a topic sentence that crystallizes your point of view and with one or more specific supporting details or examples to illustrate that point of view. Here’s the prompt: “For this paragraph, you are asked to imagine that, as a graduate student or new instructor, you have been hired to teach a high school or college class, focused on literary analysis, research, and writing.  After thinking through the entirety of the semester in our class, what component(s) of our class would you most like to incorporate into the class that you would design for your students?  Possible topics include, but are not limited to those below.  
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU FILL THE WHOLE PAGE AS AN MLA HEADING USUALLY TAKES SPACE AWAY FROM THE WRITING. PLEASE WRITE AS IF THERE IS NO HEADING BECAUSE NEEDS TO BE A FULL PAGE AND THE HEADING MAKES IT LESS. THANK YOU.
* a particular writer or literary text (novel or poem) that you enjoyed reading and analyzing    (in our class we talked about terry eagleton’s Literary Theory, zadie smith’s White Teeth and  Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations
* the grammar component
* a particular theoretical perspective that you found interesting or useful                
* the brief written assignments
* the emphasis on the writing process                                                                   
* the final essay
* the experience with doing research                                                                    
* the MLA guidelines for citation                                                                         
* the accessibility provided by pre-recorded lectures with embedded quizzes, available to watch according to your own schedule
* the virtual presentations on the mechanics of English         
* the encouragement to “speak your truth”                               
* the optional Casual Course Cafe sessions on Zoom
* the flexibility provided by an asynchronous, online course                  
* the organization of the Canvas course site
* the general structure and variety of the class                                                       
* the various opportunities for extra credit
* the multimedia, including clips from newsreels, music videos & documentaries    
* the consideration of “linguistic justice”
* anything else that you wish”
I will list materials below in case you want to use as a supporting examplen or detail. I have also attached materials in the attachments below and those are materials that we went over throughout the course. Feel free to use anything below as a supporting example to support your Point of View. Those are NOT activities for You to do, it is activities that we previously did in class but you can use/ reference any of them for this paragraph. 
MATERIALS: 
– Online PDF version of Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton (copy and paste into browser):  
https://staffnew.uny.ac.id/upload/132299491/pendidikan/literary-theory-terry-eagleton.pdf
– Zadie Smith’s White Teeth: 
https://courses.upwego.ru/encyclopedia/books/White_Teeth.pdf
– Great Excpectations by charles Dickens: 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS

The assignment is an Ebook for children that needs 
To be completed by June 9th . It has to have pictures I will provide the YouTube page where the professor explains how he wants the ebook done. There’s two worksheets due this week with a couple of questions I will provide those in the attach files .The ebook  will 
Be on responsibilities of owning a pet . This is a 
Children’s book so the writing won’t be 20 pages it
Will a lot less since it will include pictures. 

Firstly, you’ll need to think about a topic for the argument (it is an argument/persuasive paper). We have covered three models of argument (Ethos, Logos, and Pathos). You must think carefully about those arguments and what will work best for the argument you choose. Then, compose an essay persuading the audience/reader of the aesthetic value/taste of something. This is, in other words, a rhetorical exercise in which you will argue that not only is your taste/opinion correct but also that your audience should share your taste/opinion, which is, in essence, a subjective claim. The item you choose to argue can be anything that is assessed in terms of aesthetic value or taste—for example, an item of fashion, a painting, a musical artist, a visual artist, a literary artist, a type of food, a recipe, a type of music, a place to visit, a place to eat, a form of entertainment, a hobby, a book’s setting or theme or characters, a film’s cinematography or score. The list goes on and on… The proofs of your argument can be either severe or lighthearted, or they could be both, and they should include the appeals. Please remember that the topics listed above are the only types you are to choose for this essay. So, if you select music, narrow it to a genre or narrow it further to an artist. If you choose food, narrow it down to a type or narrow it further to a dish. Do not write a paper about hot-button issues or other things like ethics, religion, sports, etc. (No controversial topics, please!). Do not Google ‘topics for an argument paper’ as things like this will not fit the specifics of this essay. Also, please note that this is not a comparison/contrast piece, i.e., cats vs. dogs, Five Guys vs. McDonald’s, and so on. Remember that you should be persuasive. Therefore, logic and evidence will be of great importance here. Be extra careful to avoid the fallacies in your reasoning. You may support your argument with any evidence you see fit, but make sure it supports it as effectively as possible. In addition, please explore style and tone with some rhetorical devices. And, as any good rhetorician must do, you should have a specific purpose and audience in mind, aiming your tone and proofs toward that audience.

i will send you all the of the given instructions provided by the professor. I will also provide 
the draft that is needed for this assignment. I will also send the “fill in the grid” and just 
answer the questions. IF you have any further questions please feel free to message me.  
Using one of my body paragraphs from paper #2 draft fill in the right side of the chart. 

This assignment works off of my previous one, that paper is attached below. The second half of your research project, the AP, asks that you do the following:
Introduce and evaluate one or more significant efforts to address the problem you described in your CP
Develop an argument about which of the efforts to address the problem work best, explain why, and offer possible next steps
Unlike the CP, an expository essay that asks you to use your research to describe the problem, the AP requires you to stake out a clear position in a thesis statement that you must defend through deeply engaged research.
An advocate takes a position in a debate or conflict and works to solve problems. Social justice advocates, for example, aim to give voice to the marginalized and defend the vulnerable from harm by forging resolutions among stakeholders where intractable problems persists. To advance their aims, advocates must be strategic: they must consider whether or not various modes of redress will effectively mitigate or resolve the problem at hand. And to be strategic, they must also be informed. You, too, must be deeply informed about the advocacy landscape and ongoing conversations concerning your topic and the problems associated with it.
Your initial research for the AP should be explore the various efforts to shape public opinion though the media; to change policies; to institute new laws or amend existing ones; or to pursue litigation. As you examine these efforts, you should assess their short- and long-term outcomes; their costs (in a variety of senses: cultural, economic, moral, personal, institutional, to name a few) and benefits; their relative fitness in comparison to one another; their ability to produce equitable outcomes; and the obstacles that stand in their way. 
Thinking about obstacles necessitates thinking about rhetorical context. The role of public opinion, for example, has always been instrumental (for better and worse) in shaping advocacy efforts. Advocates must consider the values expressed through social affiliations–political, institutional, religious, cultural, and regional. Sometimes these considerations involve compromise (advocates have terms for these compromises: “respectability politics” is one; “matters of expediency,” another). Where there is compromise that bends to corporate interests or public opinion, there may exist other kinds of compromise, such as short term solutions that satisfy demands in the present but fail to address damaging consequences in the long term. You should account for similar dynamics in the representation of advocacy efforts you examine.
Indeed, you will learn that few advocacy efforts enjoy universal support, and accounting for the range of attitudes toward the characterization of your chosen efforts–some you may agree with, others you may strongly contest–will strengthen your advocacy analysis. 
By the time you complete the AP, you should be able to:
Write a developed thesis statement that clearly and concisely articulates the central claims of your argument
Develop your argument by analyzing the positions of academics and other experts, including those who offer perspectives that are not in agreement with your own.
You should continue to practice the major skills from the CP in terms of:
Practicing information literacy by assessing how and why you are giving authority to certain
sources and crafting effective annotations that will help you to compose a developed essay
Integrating sources of generic variety and purpose with attention to their argumentative
purpose and rhetorical effect 
Developing your command of integrating a variety of quotation, summary, and paraphrase
Employing organization and style appropriate for addressing a general academic audience
Collaborating to give and receive constructive feedback
Incorporating multimodal evidence for specific rhetorical purposes
Using a standard citation system, and avoiding plagiarism 
Assignment Requirements
At a minimum, the argument in your AP should integrate evidence from 6-8 new sources, at least two of which should involve complex, comprehensive arguments that substantively consider the obstacles at work in solving the problem you addressed in your CP. You may continue to use relevant sources that you found while researching for the CP. 
Your final submission should be an approximately 2500-word multimodal composition (not including the Works Cited). It should be formatted in MLA style, with parenthetical citations, a Works Cited page, and a descriptive academic title. 

Please separate out by headings of Part One, Part Two, and Part
Three: 
Remember: You are writing a persuasive paper to
the CCC English Department on whether or not A.I. programs should be
allowed and integrated into the department’s assignments and curriculum. 
Imagine that the paragraphs below represent
some of what the professors are currently saying: 
Some members of the department argue that the technology already
exists, some students already use A.I. (without explicit instructor
permission), that A.I. could potentially help
certain student populations, and, if implemented strategically, A.I. might
allow students more freedom to work on higher-level, more meaningful
assignments. 
Other professors believe the purpose of college is to teach
students how to think–to read critically, ask questions, collect and analyze
data, develop cogent arguments with persuasive lines of reasoning, which are
supported by facts, research, and evidence from high quality sources.  If
A.I. programs produce assignments, summaries, and essays without students doing
any of the research or thinking or writing for themselves, then they will not
truly learn the critical skills necessary for future education and
employment.  
For your longer essay, you may have MULTIPLE
ideas or paragraphs in the counterargument and multiple ideas and paragraphs
and of rebuttal/refutation. 
But for this assignment here, you are
providing just a few sentences of key ideas.
Part One:  Provide a 1-2 sentence recap of
your thesis.
Part Two: Provide a COUNTERARGUMENT to that
original argument.  The counterargument is the OPPOSITE side of the
argument originally stated. 
The counterargument should begin  with an appropriate transitional phrase that signals to readers
you are moving into counterargument. Follow that with 2-3 sentences of
explanation and support of that opposite side (in your actual paper, you might
have full paragraphs in support of these ideas) 
Part Three: Using another appropriate transitional phrase,
address the counterargument and explain why that position is faulty.
Point out flaws, contradict it, undermine it, weaken it in some way. It is
adding ANOTHER supporting reason why your original point is correct.
See example below (on a different topic):
Original argument:
Social media apps have negative impacts on younger
users and the
government needs to regulate social media sites.
Counterargument beginning with transitional phrase:
On the other hand, some might
argue that social media apps
have many positive impacts, such as allowing people to
connect with one another from all over the world.  They might argue
that the government doesn’t need to regulate  these mediums because social
media accounts already have age minimums in order to create accounts. 
Phones also have parental controls and the ability to set screen time
limits for younger people.
Rebuttal beginning with
transition word:
Although social
media apps do have age minimums and parental controls, young people can easily
get around those barriers.  The posts that appear on many social media
apps are not well monitored and social media use has been linked to higher
rates of depression, disordered eating, and other harms in our
youth.  Furthermore, the
algorithms most social media companies use to entice viewers are incredibly
addicting and most younger viewers do not have the ability to monitor and set
limits on their own.   As such, the government must
step in and regulate social media sites to help mitigate the negative impact on
our youth.
(Please note that
the last line of the rebuttal paragraphs should essentially restate the main
argument presented in Part One.)
Counterargument
AND Rebuttal for A.I. Use in College
Counterargument AND Rebuttal for A.I. Use in College
Criteria
Ratings
Pts
Clear Argument
At the beginning of
the paragraph, 1-2 sentence thesis statement that clearly explains whether or
not A.I. use should be allowed in college English classes.
2 pts
Yes! Looks great! 👍
Part One begins with a clear
statement about A.I. use in college English classes.
1 pts
Not Quite
Clear argument and reasoning
missing; thesis contains grammar or sentence-level challenges.
0.5 pts
Whoops!
Please go over assignment
directions and information on counter-argument.
2 pts
Transitional
word/phrase
A transitional
word/phrase is present and clearly indicates where the counterargument
begins.
1 pts
Yes! Looks great! 👍
Yes! Transitional phrase is
present and it clearly marks where the counter-argument begins.
0 pts
No Marks
Transitional words/phrase indicating
the opposite stance is missing.
1 pts
Counterargument
Argues the OPPOSITE
stance/position of the original argument AND offers 2-3 sentences of logical
support for that position.
2 pts
Yes! Looks great! 👍
Directly OPPOSITE stance is identified
and 2-3 sentences offer reasons and reasons.
1 pts
Getting There!
May not include the OPPOSITE
stance, but gives reasons that oppose the original stance. OR, may give the
opposite stance, but doesn’t include 2-3 sentences of logical reasons in support
of stance.
0.5 pts
Missed the Mark
Please review lessons on how to
develop counter-argument presented in this module.
2 pts
Rebuttal
Provides a
transition signaling rebuttal. Offers 2-3 sentences of reasoning that
responds directly to the ideas in counterargument. Concluding statement goes
back to the original argument.
5 pts
Yes! 🙌 Looks Great!
Clear transition; offers 2-3
sentences in response to counterargument; concludes with the original
argument.
2.5 pts
Getting There!
Transition may be missing;
reasoning might not directly address the counterargument; reasoning might
be underdeveloped (not 2-3 sentences; might not conclude with the original
argument (from Point One).
1 pts
Whoops!
Several elements of rebuttal
need review. Please rewatch videos in prior page.
5 pts
Total
Points: 10

Write a disscusion essay.
A text that may be published in a paper as a discussion paper.
Use the second file (branson) for the sources and the first as an example of what the text could look   like.