Homework for April 3

Please post your genre example, answers to the questions i n SG, and a description of the publication that the example is in.

Homework for March 13

What are the strenghts of the essay that you read in WPL? Be specific and thorough.

Homework for Monday, March 9

See the reading assignment in the syllabus to answer the questions: 

What are the three common mistakes people make in their essay?  

How can you best avoid bias in your own essay?

Homework for Friday, Feb. 20

After completing the assigned reading in the WPL, summarize the situation with the cartoon in the Daily Wildcat, highlighting the most important points from the chapter.

Homework for Monday, Feb. 16

After completing the assigned reading, answer the questions. 

What is the difference between a subject and a topic?  What is a potential topic for your controversy analysis? What is your potential research question? Who would be the stakeholders? 

For Friday, Feb. 6

See the SG, p. 196. Then write a preliminary thesis statement for your first essay assignment.  We will workshop these in class on Friday, so bring your laptops/tablets.

Homework for Wed, Feb 4

Read the New York Times newspaper Op-Ed piece and answer the questions:

Identify the primary and secondary audiences (they are pretty obvious, as he addresses the text to them specifically in a national newspaper). 

What is the author's tone? What effect might this have on the two audiences and why?

Please post links to Superbowl commercials here.

Homework for Monday, Jan. 26

After reading WPL, chapter 7, please write 2 paragraphs about the similarities and differences between the kind of analysis you did in 107/101 and the rhetorical analysis for 108/102.

Homework for Wednesday, Jan. 21.

Read these instructions carefully. After reading 9.1 in the SG, the first person to 'comment' will write 3 sentences about rhetorical analysis. Your job is to ADD three different sentences with more information about rhetorical analysis to their comment. Each person will ADD three different sentences to the information that has already been posted by the students in the class. So, if you are the first one, you can write whatever you want (as long as it is covered in the chapter). The other students must read all the previous posts and ADD to those.

Introduce yourself (Due Wednesday, Jan 14.)

Please introduce yourself and answer the following questions: 1. What is your name/what name do you prefer we call you for class? 2. Where are you from originally? 3. How do you like Tucson and UA? 4. What is your major and/or favorite class subject? 5. Tell us something interesting about yourself. Thank you!