English 1010 Summer 2017

Your Return Address Your City, CO zip Date [write out either like June 4, 2013 or 4 June 2013] First and Last Name of the Person to whom you are writing                                                             (if appropriate, the person’s title) (if their title was included, this next line should be the organization or company name) Address City , ST zip Dear Mr./Ms. Person: [note the colon] Times have changed, and indentations for paragraphs are usually not used because it is easier not to use them. The body paragraphs should be single spaced in a business letter.  Can you tell that business letters are in ELEVEN POINT font? They are. You should double space between paragraphs when your letter contains more than one paragraph.  Most business letters have a direct structure: your claim should appear early in the letter (right here at the end of the first paragraph is a good place). In the second paragraph in a standard business letter, you will want to give sp

Guide to a writing proposal Finding a Topic Your everyday experience calls on you to make proposals all the time; for example, to spend the weekend snowboarding or doing some other much-loved sport, to change your academic major for some very important reason, or to add to the family income by starting a small, home-based business.  In addition, your community group work or your job may require you to make proposals—to the boss, a board of directors, the local school board, someone you want to impress—the list could go on and on.  Of course, you also have many opportunities to make proposals to online groups—with email one click away, the whole world could be an audience for your proposal.  In all these cases, you will be aiming to call for action: so why not make an informal list of proposals you’d like to explore in a number of different areas?  Or do some freewriting on a subject of great interest to you and see if it leads to a proposal? Either method of exploration is like

English 1010 Summer 2017 Major Essay Assignment 4: Proposal Argument Word Requirement: approx. 1,000 Assignment Take a position on a specific topic related to you.  Be sure to include the key features of proposal arguments from the readings; you must meet these objectives in order to satisfy the goals of this assignment. For this paper, you will use business letter format and address your essay to a specific person, business or organization in order to effect change .  Make certain you are addressing an appropriate audience for your paper.  This audience must have the power to enact the change you are proposing!  Choose wisely.  Your final draft in the portfolio must include a stamped, addressed envelope for mailing (or it will not meet this rubric and be returned to you).  Sources Your paper may include a citation that supports your argument.    Because you are writing a letter, you will simply include the source within the sentence.  For example: Crai

Every good proposal is a solution to a problem. What problem will your proposal solve? Freewrite on the problem here.  Describe in using showing language. Consider the worse-case scenario.

Revise the following groups of sentences to form one sentence with a list of appositives. A typical Swiss army knife includes a variety of tools. The tools include a watch. The tools include a tiny pen. The tools include a nail file The tools include a screwdriver. The tools include a metal saw. The tools include pliers. And the tools even include a fish scaler. In Rwanda , Dian Fossey lived among and studied gorillas.  Gorillas are shy, beguiling animals whose numbers have been decimated by poachers. Revise each of the following sentences by adding at least one fact or detail in the form of an appositive.  For one sentence, add a series of appositives . 1. College life is a series of shocks. 2. Sean rushed outside with his new double-barreled water gun. 3. Kylie remembered how thoughts of the dark cellar had filled her with numb excitement. 4. These are the characteristics of a successful student. 5. Teenagers often wear clothes

English 1010 Summer 2017 Short Essay #3 Audience Analysis How do you write an effective proposal?  Recognizing what will appeal to your audience is the first step.  The key to a proposal argument is knowing the motivations of your audience .  In about 200 words identify who the audience of your proposal is and what their motivations are.  Guidelines: For this one-page essay, pick apart your audience (this is an analysis!).  This audience should be an individual, not a vague group.  Think about what motivates this person, what will convince him or her to put your change into effect .  You could do a little research to find out some background information on them. Decide what parts of your argument will be most effective at making this audience take your side. Think about these questions as you start to compose this one-page essay.     Who are they? (Really try to imagine this person—their daily routine, the people they are around all day, the types of req

Any good proposal solves a problem.  This assignment started with this problem (one of the 20 gripes). In this discussion, I'd like you to develop a picture of the problem-- this could be the worse-case scenario.  How bad could it be?  Show the audience.  Use descriptive language to show a vignette or scene. Consider things that irritate you-- problems in your life that could be solved by an action

From your reading of the chapter on proposals, name some of the examples of proposal arguments that were suggested.

Discuss the contemporary and historical contexts surrounding the topic of the piece of rhetoric you are analyzing in the major essay.

Avy Estudiante Scott Whitington English 1010 04 April 2017 Too High A Price To Pay Without doubt most people over sixteen years of age drive a car. Our entire population feels the burning sting in their wallet as gas prices continue to rise. Our entire economy is dependent on cheap transportation— all those cheap products from China wouldn’t be cheap if the enormous transport ships starting charging double due to fuel costs.  Why has the price of gas seemed to spike recently? Could it have something to do with the weakening of the U.S. dollar, inflation, or commodities trading? It’s possible, but like most items, oil prices are affected by supply and demand. There is speculation that the current rising prices may be attributed to the turmoil in the Middle East. Kimberly Amadeo, who has 20 years experience in economic analysis, confirms this on her blog. Her blog on About.com states that “high oil prices were caused by investors' fears about unrest in Libya and Egypt.” Bo

Fallacies are lapses in logic that may result from misusing or misrepresenting evidence, from relying on faulty premises, or from distorting the issues.  They may be the result of poor thinking, but they may also be a deliberate attempt to manipulate—as suggested by the origin of the term fallacia which is Latin for “deceit.”  Fallacies are common, especially in persuasive writing.  Here are some of the major forms of fallacies.  Be alert for them in your reading. (1)   Ad hominem:                Attacking the person who presents an issue rather than dealing logically with the issue itself. Faulty                     His arguments might impress us more if he didn’t have false teeth.                                                 [His false teeth have nothing to do with his arguments.] (2)   Bandwagon: An argument saying, in effect, “Everyone’s doing or saying or thinking this, so you should too.”                 Faulty                     Everyone else is cheati

English 1010 |  Progression Two |  Rhetorical Analysis Assignment Guidelines Your assignment is to critically examine an argument of your choice. This argument can be verbal, visual, aural or combination of the three. Write a rhetorical analysis that discusses how the argument works and evaluates its effectiveness. Consider some of the following questions when constructing your analysis, but please do not use these questions as an outline for your essay. These questions should help you generate ideas . It is possible that only a few of them will be applicable to your topic. 1.      What point/claim was the argument making? 2.      How did the argument appeal to ethos, pathos, and/or logos? 3.      What is the context (personal, historical, social, and cultural)of the argument? 4.      What basic elements does the argument incorporate? 5.      What reasons and evidence supports the argument’s claims? 6.      What types of evidence are used (examples, analogies, facts, stati

Punctuation Exploration English 1010 In the readings this week there were a number of examples of dashes and colons.  I’d like you to find examples of these points of punctuation and attempt to decipher the rules for their usage (if there is more than one way in which they are used, try to explain the rules for each different usage). How are these two points similar? Different? What other points of punctuation could take their place in each usage (try to think of as many different punctuation options for each example as you can)? What effect do these points have on the reader?  How would the alternate punctuation options affect a reader differently?

English 1010 Short Essay #2 Analyzing Rhetoric: Logos Analyzing rhetoric has a long tradition, dating back to the ancient Greek philosophers. Aristotle considered how an argument (a piece of rhetoric) could appeal to its audience: logically ( logos ), emotionally ( pathos ), and ethically or based on the authority of the author ( ethos ). You have picked a piece of rhetoric in the form of a bumper sticker. After briefly describing this argument in terms of its claims and its audiences, focus a discussion on its logical appeal. Think about these questions as you consider this argument’s logos appeals: ·          How does it use a logical claim? ·          In what ways does it have logical strengths— on any level does it make sense? ·          How does it fail logically—how does it fail to make sense? ·          How does it commit logical fallacies? Try to remain balanced in your analysis of its logic— you can certainly note if its logical appeal is persuasive

Today we workshopped the major essay for the last time.  Haave a hard copy prepared for next class. Also, please read the chapter on Rhetorical Analysis and be prepared with 3 different examples of pieces of rhetoric. Email me with questions or if you need a copy of the readings.

Sally Student Professor Whitington English 1010 September 7, 2016                                                             Broken Places             It hadn’t been two weeks since we’d lost everything. Our home, our TV, my little sisters’ toys and all of our books, most of our clothes and our swing set.  We lost my father’s business too.  They came early in the morning with a truck. I sat on the sidewalk across the street and watched them haul it all away. Everything. Gone. We lost my mom and my sisters too. They left not long after the bank foreclosed, drove away with my aunt and a suitcase. Gone.             We lost everything except each other. “You’re always stronger at the broken places,” he told me. Daddy and I moved into a single-wide trailer, up on cement blocks. It listed to the left. “It’s like camping on a slope, that’s not so bad,” my dad said— and he was right. We settled in, my dad and I. He did odd jobs. I was a junior in high school and worked at the p