Conclusions, Clarifications, & RWS 100 – Friday - 9/22/17 Conclusions, Clarifications, & Titles

I accidentally poked fun at the campus architecture the other class (more like the concrete library) and so these slides were for making amends.

I showed them my undergraduate campus and how it looked rather bland compared to SDSU’s campus.

Rough Draft Your rough draft is due on Monday, 9/25. You MUST attend Monday so we can do a peer workshop. Bring TWO copies of your draft.

Conferencing Bring a draft of your essay. Think of 3 questions/things you want me to look at. Think of 1 representative body paragraph you want me to look closely at.

STORM HALL 116

Essay 1 Questions about Essay 1? About the class? Life? ? ?????????????????????????????????????

Essay 1 Interpret and explain KEY claims. Evaluate evidence and state the type of evidence. Quote claims/evidence when explaining/evaluating it. Address strengths/weaknesses. Address an assumption. Introduction: hook, rhetorical situation, and thesis. Conclusion: we’ll talk about it today. You are not agreeing/disagreeing but analyzing.

Essay 1 Claims paragraphs.

Essay 1 Evidence doc.

Work Cited It goes on last page (NOT a part of the page requirement). I will post the citation on Blackboard. Don’t need it for rough draft.

Conclusions

Conclusions Don’t need to restate too much. You can “wrap up” in just a few sentences max. Spend the bulk meditating deeply on the topic. Or going “back to the beginning” with your question, fact, personal story, etc. And then “go further” with the topic.

Conclusions a) how some element of the text relates to your own experience b) how the author has impacted your thinking/views on this topic c) the significance of the argument. Pick ONE or 1.5.

Conclusions Mic drop example

Making Cool Titles Master Hack – how to make a badass title (“Farewell to Charm”) Use this format: “<something witty>”: <what your essay is about>

Making Cool Titles Bad Title – Public Thinking Essay Good title – “A Diatribe on Clive”: An Evaluation of Thompson’s Argument on Public Writing

Making Cool Titles Bad Title – Clinton’s Twitter Rhetoric Good title – “A Tweet is Worth a Million Votes”: A Rhetorical Analysis of Clinton’s Twitter Rhetoric.

Making Cool Titles Bad Title – Smoking Kills Good title – “High on Hookah”: An Evaluation of the Rhetorical Appeals in Two Student Articles

Making Cool Titles Bad Title – Fake News Essay Good title – “Bigfoot, Aliens, Kardashians, oh my!”: An Analysis of Two Fake News Sites

Making Cool Titles Bad Title – Thompson Essay Good title – “99 problems and evidence is one”: An Analysis of Thompson’s Claims and Evidence

Making Cool Titles Bad Title – Social Justice Warrior Good title – “Warriorlicious”: Beyoncé the Social Justice Warrior

Making Cool Titles Create a cool title using the format I just discussed. “<something witty>”: <what your essay is about>

Clarification A semi-colon is used to connect two complete sentences. In academic writing, a transition is almost always required after the semi-colon. MASTER HACK – clarification semicolon template. “<first sentence>; that is, <clarification>.”

Clarification “San Diego State University is not a party school; that is, the professors require a lot of work from their students.”

Clarification “Thompson claims that public writing makes us smarter; that is, the connections we make when writing online improve our cognition, our memory, and our minds.”

Clarification “Jimi Hendrix is far superior to Kurt Cobain; that is to say, even though they both died at 27 and are immortalized on tumblr, Hendrix changed what the electric guitar was capable of doing.”

Clarification Examples in own writing.

Clarification Write a sentence using the template. “<first sentence>; that is, <clarification>.” (For example: “San Diego State University is not a party school; that is, the professors require a lot of work from their students.”)

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Homework The rough draft is due on Monday. You must come. Sign up and come to conferencing. HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!