Week 11 Overview (Finals Week)
Almost there! The final draft of the research essay will be due by Monday at midnight, and the Cover Letter assignment will be due Wednesday at midnight. That cover letter is just describing your writing experience, so it won't ask you anything challenging...hopefully it will be the easiest thing you do this week. It's our version of a final exam.
I know I've pushed you hard all quarter long, but you've successfully met every challenge I've thrown at you, and then some. You'll be asked to write a lot of essays in future classes, and won't always be given such detailed prewriting tasks to make sure they get done. From here on out, it's up to you to determine what the best steps are for you to take, in order to get a complete, comprehensive, well-written final essay turned in. I hope you've found a few of the methods in this class particularly useful, that you can continue to draw on throughout your college career (and beyond!).
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this week, you should be able to:
- Detect and evaluate non-argumentative persuasive techniques – rhetorical devices such as irony, satire, anecdotal evidence, flattery and analogies, and logical fallacies – used to sway readers' emotions.
- Use library research skills in electronic, print, and other sources to gather support for arguments.
- Recognize that different academic disciplines may rely on different kinds of arguments and assess what types of argument and evidence are appropriate for different fields of knowledge.
- Write arguments appropriate to audience, occasion and discipline.
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