Tuesday, 11/29/2011 - REVISIONS & EDITING WORKSHOP

REVISIONS 

A. Look through the hard copy of your draft of the Policy/Proposal Paper and mark the following on the margins:

•                description of the problem proving its importance (ideally, in the introduction)

•                thesis statement outlining the proposal as a solution to the problem and its justification

•                topic sentences in the paragraphs elaborating the justifications for the proposed solution

B. Hand in the hard copy with your notes to the instructor.

C. On your blog write your concerns about the paper and what you would like your peer reviewer to focus on.

D. E-mail the electronic version of the paper to your peer reviewer. Include the questions/concerns from your blog post into the message to your peer. 

EDITING WORKSHOP

1. Revisions Supplement folder on Blackboard. 
2. Editing Workshop handout

Tuesday, 11/22/11 - revisions and preparing the portfolio

I. CAMPUS ISSUE:

Formulate a change/introduction of policy you feel the USC campus needs. Make clear if there is a policy in place that needs change or if there needs to be a policy that is currently lacking.

Play Devil's Advocate: argue for the existing state of things. What is the motivation for the existing policy? Why have not the authorities introduced the policy for which you argued above?

II. THE ISSUE FROM YOUR EXPLORATORY PAPER:

Formulate the four perspectives you outlined in your Exploratory Paper. Which of the perspectives is dominant based on the current state of things? Why? What is the motivation/explanation for it? Which perspective do you think needs to be dominant? Why? How can the perspective of your choice be enforced as a policy?


III. Discussion of responsible ways of documenting sources.

IV. Feedback on conferences:

• Rhetorical Analysis of  Visual Text 
• Annotated Bibliography
• Exploratory Paper

V. Guidelines for the Portfolio.

Tuesday, 11/15/2011- from exploratory to policy/proposal

1. REVISIONS:

• (How) did you change the draft of essay 3 between last Thursday and today? Did the analysis of sample student essay help you refine your paper? Did the peer comments help?
• What do you find is the strongest element of your paper? Why?
• What, if anything, are you concerned about? Why?

2. PLANNING ESSAY 4:

• Look back at your draft and list the 4 perspectives, copying the topic sentences from the draft. 
• Now that you can start planning your essay 4, are you going to write a policy or proposal paper? What are you planning to propose?
• Are you content with the research you have done (will you have enough useful sources for essay 4) or are you planning to do more research? Why?

Tuesday, 11/08/2011 - Working on Exploratory Essays

1. Review different types of arguments.


2. Study the grading rubric for the exploratory essay.


3. Read the sample exploratory essay and work in pairs to grade it using the rubric.


4. Suggest how to improve the paper.

Tuesday, 11/01/11 - research and annotations

1. Citations and sources

•  evaluating your sources
• author, title, year, source

2. Annotations 

• points to remember (Handout and sample on Blackboard)
• work in pairs to make annotations of (A) CR p 300 and (B) CR p 15, and (C) CR p. 23. You are welcome to use your blog posts as a source/refresher

3. Research

• Use Google Scholar and Gamecock Power Search to look for Scully's "Fear Factories"

Tuesday (10/18/2011) 10/25/2011 - Factory Farming Exploratory Argument

Review:

What are the overlapping issues related to both factory farming and food industry?

What are the exigent or potential problems, as discussed in the sources we have read/watched?

Who are the stakeholders? What are their values? Whose voice have we not heard in the materials we have read or watched?

What are the proposed alternatives or solutions to the problems? What has not been discussed yet?

What could you research to have a more informed stand on the issue? What key words could you use?

In-class writing assignment

Look up  Caw Caw Creek Farm and City-Roots Farm. What information on their websites could help you in your research of the issue? How?

Homework for Thursday, October 13th

(1) Use the SafeAssign link on Blackboard to upload your first draft of Essay 1 (by class time on October 13th). Bring TWO hard copies to class!

(2) Watch the whole episode of Jamie Oliver's show and prepare to discuss in class:

Tuesday 10/11/2011 - Food Revolution

Check out the show's website

Jamie Oliver fills school bus with sugar on ‘Food Revolution’

FACTORY FARMING

Why Factory Farms Threaten Your Health, by John Robbins

Factory food artificially cheap, bad for your health

Tuesday, 10/04/2011

1. Chapters 3-4:  Review questions

• What is the difference between an issue question and an information question?
• What is the difference between a real argument and a pseudo-argument?
• What is the difference between formal logic and real world logic?
• What is does enthymeme consist of and why is it an incomplete logical structure? What is missing?

2. CLAIMS AND REASONS. PPT

3. RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL ARGUMENTS. 

• Essay 2 guidelines DOC
• Remember that there are 2 CLAIMS in any rhetorical analysis:
• THEIR CLAIM: the claim of the argument you are analyzing
• YOUR CLAIM: the claim you are making about that argument

4. What exactly is culture?

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