MODULE 4

Assignment 4.2 -50 Points.

Introduction and Alignment

In Week 4, you will write and submit a complete rough draft of your Rhetorical Analysis Essay with a reference page. Be sure to review the directions for your final, sourced 5.3 | Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Final Draft so that you know what is expected of the full and final draft.

Receiving instructor feedback on an essay is a positive way to learn how to process constructive criticism, so that you can see specific areas to improve your writing. As you go through this process, it is helpful to view your instructor as a coach. As a coach, your instructor is:

1. on the same team as you are: It’s not an “us-vs-them” situation. Your instructor takes the time to give constructive feedback so that you can improve your work. Within which, they identify areas that need improvement, which will in turn hopefully result in higher grades.
2. expected to provide instructions for improvement: Remember, the end goal for giving feedback is your improvement. In order to improve, you must be given honest feedback and corrections. This may not always feel good, but will benefit your writing, both now and forevermore. Some of the best athletic coaches are known for being tough on their players so that they can all achieve the best results. Likewise, instructors show they care by taking the time to provide honest critical feedback. It is always helpful if you, as the student writer, can be open in your response to instructor feedback by having a growth mindset. This involves not taking feedback as a personal attack and, instead, using that feedback to help you create a stronger final product.
3. expected to encourage: It can be hard to imagine your instructors as part of your cheering section, but it’s true! Your teachers are rooting for you to succeed, but success takes work from both the professor and from you. It’s a dual relationship that relies on an open mind and a willingness to change. Remember, the goal of feedback is improved writing (and higher grades) on every subsequent assignment.  

This week, you will write a rough draft of your final essay assignment and you will receive feedback from your instructor. Your task does not end with simply turning in the rough draft; be sure to take time to read the instructor’s feedback, to process the feedback, and to execute that feedback by making the suggested changes to your draft.  

Upon completion of this assignment, you should be able to:

• Compose, edit, and revise a rough draft of a rhetorical analysis essay.

Resources

• Read: Chapter 12, Rhetorical Analyses in Ruszkiewicz & Dolmage.
• Read: Chapter 24: “Shaping a Thesis” in Ruszkiewicz & Dolmage.
• Read: Chapter 52, “APA In-Text Citation” section in Ruszkiewicz & Dolmage (found at the beginning of Chapter 52).
• Watch: APA 7th Edition: Formatting the APA Reference Page (3:39).
• Read, Review, and Watch: Rhetorical Triangle: Aristotle & Three Appeals

Assignment Instructions

• Read 5.3 | Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Final Draft.
• Compose and type a completed rough draft:
• The rough draft must have resources integrated and be at least 5 typed paragraphs (11-13 lines, not sentences, in each paragraph) with a correctly formatted reference page In APA format, using size 12 Times New Roman font. If your rough draft is 5 paragraphs, be aware that at least 7 full paragraphs are required for the final version due in Week 5.
• Submit your rough draft by the end of Day 4 this week so that you can receive instructor feedback in a timely manner.
• By the end of this week, post your initial post related to this assignment in 5.1 | Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Discussion. Replies will be due by Day 4 of Week 5.

ASSIGNMENT 4.3 due by October 22nd. 50 Points.

Introduction and Alignment

In many of your upper-level college courses, you will be required to not only do research on a project, but also then present your work to either the class or to the professor. In many careers, you will be expected to manage a large task over a period of time, perhaps even managing a group through this same task. Your employer will expect to see reliable results in either a presentation, a report, or at an event. In this class, we will practice this skill by creating a PowerPoint presentation of 5.4 | Rhetorical Analysis Presentation: Final Draft.

Upon completion of this assignment, you should be able to:

• Develop a rough draft of a presentation with slides for a rhetorical analysis essay.

Resources

• Read: Chapter 20, “Oral Reports” section in Ruszkiewicz & Dolmage.
• Read: “Organizing Your Argument Presentation” on Purdue OWL (outside link).
• Read, Review, and Watch: Rhetorical Triangle: Aristotle & Three Appeals
• Review: Presentation Design Tips (hover over the images to watch the animation)

Assignment Instructions

Step 1: After you have completed and submitted the rough draft of your essay, preview the directions for 5.4 | Rhetorical Analysis Presentation: Final Draft so that you know what is expected of you.

Step 2: Begin to create a slide presentation based on your written rough draft. You can use PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, or any other slide creation platform. Ideally, making a plan early in the process will help you save time when finalizing the presentation. This is a work in progress; with a rough draft of your slides due this week and your final slides and presentation due next week, it is expected that the final product will be slightly different from the rough draft.

Step 3: For each slide, start to draft the design and use the notes section of your chosen program (found beneath each slide) to outline the following information for each slide:

• Title Slide: What information are you going to include? Be sure to fill in the specific information on your outline; for example, don’t write “name,” instead, put your actual name (fill in the information on your outline):
• Course number
• Instructor
• Southern Nazarene University
• What theme/background colors? (You might go ahead and choose a background now).
• What color and font will you use for your text?
• Will you include graphics? Select them now.
• Create a citation for any graphics and cited information.

• Slides 2, 3, 4:

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• What information goes on each slide? Write out bullet points now to remind you what content you are going to write later when fully creating the slide. You can also use the notes section under each slide as needed to keep your speaker notes. (NOTE: The second slide should include a video of the commercial or a picture of the print advertisement that you analyzed in the Rhetorical Analysis essay. This is a crucial part of your presentation because without the commercial or advertisement, the rest of the presentation will not make sense to your audience!).
• What headings/titles will you use?
• Background colors/themes?
• Font style and color?
• What graphics do you want to include (choose them now, and save them to your computer, so you can easily and quickly insert them into your presentation).

• Conclusion Slide.
• What are the important points to reiterate?
• Will you restate the thesis?
• Is there a call to action or thought for the audience?
• What images can evoke a response?

Step 4: Submit the rough draft of your slides to Canvas for instructor feedback.