I need you to create a chapter with three articles

  

Layout of Everything’s an Argument Issue Project

The final draft needs to be bound in a folder or binder with items in the following order:

1. Introduction

2. First written text

3. One paragraph that explains the source and why it is included

4. Second written text

5. One paragraph that explains the source and why it is included

6. Third written text

7. One paragraph that explains the source and why it is included

8. Personal argument (formatted as a normal essay)

9. One paragraph that explains why you are a credible and trustworthy author

10. First visual argument

11. One paragraph that explains the source and why it is included

12. Second visual argument

13. One paragraph that explains the source and why it is included

14. A Works Cited page that contains correct MLA citations for ALL sources used and contained in the project

15. All prewriting related to this project

For this project, as a way to build your analytical, interpretive, evaluative, persuasive, and argumentative skills, you will be creating a focused portfolio that essentially functions as a chapter to be added to the end of our textbook, Everything’s an Argument. Your portfolio should be printed and bound in some way for submission. 

You may choose any topic that is NOT presented in Everything’s an Argument. However, considering the topics in the book might help you think of your own (see Chs. 23-27, table of contents pages xxxii-xxxvii). Think about what you see on the news and your social media and what you hear others discussing: What issues are affecting the country or the world in 2018? 

Your portfolio will consist of the following: 

• A written introduction to your “chapter,” which discusses your issue in general and briefly introduces all of the components of the chapter (1 page minimum) [40 pts. possible]; 

• Three credible written texts you find that examine your issue from multiple perspectives. Further, you should justify each text’s inclusion in your portfolio by writing a solid paragraph for each text that discusses why it is credible and important for your chapter. Finally, you need to provide the correct MLA Works Cited citation for all three texts. [30 pts. possible]; 

• A “personal argument,” similar to arguments found in the chapters of Everything’s an Argument, which you will write. You need to take a clear stance on some aspect of your topic. Be careful to not repeat an argument held by an author of one of the outside texts you include in your chapter. Include a biographical blurb about yourself that tells readers why you should be considered credible concerning your topic. Do not use research for your student essay. Make sure to consider your use of rhetorical appeals and devices. (3 full pages minimum) [100 pts. possible]; 

• A visual component. You should either find or make at least two differing visual expressions of opinion (photograph, infographic, cartoon, or advertisement) to include in your chapter. Include a solid paragraph for each that discusses why you’ve chosen this visual and why it is important for your chapter. If color is important for your visual, there is a color printer on the second floor of the library. Finally, you need to provide the correct MLA Works Cited citation for each visual expression. [30 pts. possible]. 

Use Everything’s an Argument as a model for what your chapter should be and do.