responding to academic texts amp connecting to one s writing

Project #4: Responding to Academic Texts & Connecting to One’s Writing

Context:

One of the main components to RWS 280 is to not only improve your writing abilities, but to also give you an opportunity to reflect on your past writing and potential future with writing. For the previous assignments, you have explored claims, evidence, audience, and rhetorical strategies in both academic texts and a documentary.

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Now, you will read a series of academic articles that deal with writing. After reading each article, your job is to choose three, and respond to the claims each writer makes. Then, you will need to position yourself within their argument and claims. Where do you fit in? How do you relate? How does your experience with writing connect to what they are claiming? Do you identify with any of the evidence they use? How can the writer’s experience help inform you of what you can do with your writing moving forward?

Goals:

  • Read various academic texts, take extensive notes on overall argument, claims, evidence, and rhetorical strategies
  • Draw connections between the texts, noting where they offer similar/different claims, pieces of evidence, and/or rhetorical strategies
  • Put the three “in conversation” and begin to draw connections between the texts and your experiences with writing
  • Develop an essay between 5-6 pages

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Guidelines:

  • Intro:
    • strong hook, background context on your experience with writing, introduce authors & texts, road map of your essay, thesis
  1. Body (within each body paragraph):
    1. provide an account of an author’s central argument and their position in terms of how they view writing and/or the writing process
    2. describe some of the claims the author uses, provide interpretation and analysis of how these claims work, and explain the impact of these decisions in relation to the author’s purpose
    3. draw connections between the claims or evidence used to your own experience with writing
    4. evaluate how effectively or ineffectively the author’s claims/evidence/or rhetorical strategies work based on your past or future writing goals
  2. Conclusion:
    1. offer a conclusion that is not merely repetitive, but instead offers insight into the significance of your writing process; how you will use writing moving forward; what potential writing you may do in your career, etc.
  3. MLA 8 Works Cited

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Evaluation Criteria:

  • Comprehension
  • Development
    • Details/analyzes chosen texts thoroughly and thoughtfully
    • Writer thoroughly address elements of the argument, including author, context, audience, purpose, claims, and evidence.
    • Analysis of rhetorical strategies is thorough
  • Organization
  • Expression/Mechanics/Grammar

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SLOs:

  • Develop an effective process of reading for comprehension
  • Develop an effective writing process—including prewriting, drafting, revision, and self-evaluation

Analyze the elements of academic texts—particularly argument,

 

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