Title
SLCC, Unit 3 Project Description, English 2010
Creator
SLCC Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
Publisher
SLCC Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
Date
2016
Course Number and Name
English 2010: Intermediate Writing
Assignment Name
The Persuasion Effect
Assignment Description
Unit 3 emphasizes another important threshold concept: the meanings and the effects of writing are contingent on situation, on readers, and on a text’s purposes/uses. Students continue to research their issues, this time by exploring the range of viewpoints, opinions and arguments connected to their topic. They are challenged to imagine how they might once again enter an ongoing public conversation about their issue--this time through the lens of an explicitly persuasive genre--working rhetorically to craft a formal, timely argument and support it with evidence, logic, and storytelling. The essential move in Unit 3 is trying to persuade--sharing one’s point of view and marshalling evidence to support it.
Students work rhetorically to craft their own formal argument and support it with evidence, logic and storytelling. Students should choose both their own specific persuasive genre and an appropriate medium.
Students work rhetorically to craft their own formal argument and support it with evidence, logic and storytelling. Students should choose both their own specific persuasive genre and an appropriate medium.