Format Requirements: Paper must be 3-5 pages, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font, with one-inch margins in standard MLA format.
Texts:
Choose either Project #1, Project #2, OR Project #3. You will analyze one of your essays and reflect on the choices you made in creating that essay.
Essay:
Identify the rhetorical decisions you made, and analyze and defend why those decisions are effective, given your rhetorical situation (who you are writing to, what your purpose was, what was going on contextually). You are defending your writing. You may also use this opportunity to indicate what you would have done to make the essay more effective (not required).
You should give a brief overview of the argument made in the essay of your choosing, but focus your analysis on the decisions you made in the essay, and why you thought they were a good idea. How did they help make the essay successful?
This paper is not a summary of one of your essays; it is an argument that analyzes (answers how and why) your argument may be effective for its given situation. Your goal is to reflect upon one essay and share what decisions you made as a writer, and why you thought they were effective, or what changes you could make to make it more effective.
Here are some questions that might help you think about the essay:
• What is the argument?
• Who is the audience?
• What contextual elements surround the topic?
• What appeal(s) did you use to make the essay effective?
• What rhetorical strategies did you use to make the essay effective?
• In what way(s) are these appeals/strategies significant?
Key RWS 305W Learning Objectives Met with This Assignment
• Understand the concept of rhetorical situations: the relationship among writer-audience-subject-context
• Apply critical reading strategies to a variety of publicly and individually produced texts
• Work with demanding readings and learn to interpret, incorporate, and evaluate these readings
• Use writing as a way to learn—to think about, question, and communicate ideas
• Develop successful, flexible strategies for generating, revising, and editing texts
• Understand the collaborative and social aspects of the writing process
• Critique your own and others’ texts
• Show initiative in problem solving situations
in the files section is my project essay for project number number 1 which you actually write and please write me a paragraph how the other file looks like in the file section of the girl replying on canvas to this question (Look over the essay you will be analyzing for Project #4. Choose 3-5 rhetorical decisions you consciously made. List them and for each one, describe why you made that choice, and how making that particular writing choice helped create a more successful essay.
As you respond to your peers, consider the choices they are describing and offer input into the ways such a choice could have impact on an essay.)
