Minor Essays / Critical Response

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Critical Response Essays:

Critical Response #1 – The Power of Civility  

This assignment will require you to reflect on your contributions to the Academic Community. It addresses the following Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

  1. Identify and explain the role rhetorical appeals and the rhetorical triangle can play in non-fiction print and/or multimodal texts.
  2. Create and sustain across one or more pieces of writing a focused research question that responds to an exigent issue, problem, or debate.
  3. Compose cogent, research-based arguments, in print-based and/or multimodal texts, for specialist and/or non-specialist audiences.

Respond the the source. For this particular response paper you will read and respond to the statements about civility on the Student Code and to Howard White’s essay, “The Power of Hello”. Make sure you address both sources, and give the reader cues about which source you are referring to. You may use the following questions as guidelines. Responses should be in paragraph form, not a line of answers for each line of questions. You should begin each response by identifying the source you are responding to, by title and author. The following questions are general and do not necessarily apply to every reading. They are suggestions to get you started. In addition, individual readings may suggest different questions to you. (For example, Howard White’s essay invites you to think about the impact of your decision to greet or not to greet other people. Obviously you will want to address that for this particular response.)

 

 

Critical Response #2 – To Tweet or Not to Tweet?             

This assignment will require you to reflect on your contributions to the Academic Community. It addresses the following Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

  1. Create and sustain across one or more pieces of writing a focused research question that responds to an exigent issue, problem, or debate.
  2. Compose cogent, research-based arguments, in print-based and/or multimodal texts, for specialist and/or non-specialist audiences.

This critical response is a little different. You will write a letter to Professor Mary telling her whether you think she should maintain a professional Twitter Account that her students could read. You will draw on both sources for this week. Your thesis for your letter is your opinion about whether she should tweet. You will support that opinion with reasons from this week’s sources, or other sources, or your own ideas. Since this is a letter, you won’t need to cite sources. However, you should say informally in the letter if you are using ideas from a source. You could do this with signal phrases, for example, “As the Good Enough Professor says, ….” Your letter should be in one of the business letter formats from this page: Basic Business Letters. Make sure you use one format, and not a mix of formats.

 

All the highlighted portions in the revised minor essays are changes made that were done after the original work and weren’t made before. This was part of Dino’s revision process.

After Each Main Essay ( Critical Response #… [Revised]) there will be a description and relfection to what changes were made and why.