English Composition II- Summary and Response Essay
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Essay 1: Summary and Response Essay
One of the more common types of writing assignments you’ll encounter in college is the reading response. This is essentially a variation of a rhetorical analysis essay, which is covered in Chapter 6 of Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments. Using what you’ve learned from your readings so far, choose an essay or article from Part 6 of Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments to summarize and analyze. (You’l l need my approval first, so don’t forget to send your request to me.) Try to find an essay or article that you feel you have an interesting response to or that is about something that genuinely interests you.
Your essay should incorporate a 150-250 word summary of your chosen article, along with a response in which you consider the author’s rhetorical strategies, your own agreement or disagreement with the author’s ideas, and your personal response to the text. Keep in mind that your thesis should clearly relate your ideas to the author's and show what you will be adding to the conversation. We're mixing elements of personal response writing with rhetorical analysis. Think of your response as your analysis of how the text tries to influence its readers rhetorically and how your wrestling with the text has expanded and deepened your thinking about its ideas (and yes, you may use first person freely in this assignment). As you work with ideas from the text, remember to use signal phrases, quotation marks for any quoted passages, and MLA documentation to distinguish your own points about the text from the author’s ideas and language.
Your essay should be two to four pages in length. It should be double spaced and typed in 12-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins on all sides. You are welcome to refer to sources other than the essay you're responding to (though this is optional), but your sources should be properly documented according to MLA standards. See the sample MLA paper on pp. 277-83 in Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments for details.
Sample citation of an article from Good Reasons:
Marks, Paul. "Armchair Warlords and Robot Hordes." New Scientist 28 Oct. 2006. Rpt. in Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments. Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer. 6th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2014. 437-38. Digital File.
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Essay 1 Guidelines
Essay 1: Summary and Response Essay
One of the more common types of writing assignments you’ll encounter in college is the reading response. This is essentially a variation of a rhetorical analysis essay, which is covered in Chapter 6 of Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments. Using what you’ve learned from your readings so far, choose an essay or article from Part 6 of Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments to summarize and analyze. (You’l l need my approval first, so don’t forget to send your request to me.) Try to find an essay or article that you feel you have an interesting response to or that is about something that genuinely interests you. Your essay should incorporate a 150-250 word summary of your chosen article, along with a response in which you consider the author’s rhetorical strategies, your own agreement or disagreement with the author’s ideas, and your personal response to the text. Keep in mind that your thesis should clearly relate your ideas to the author's and show what you will be adding to the conversation. We're mixing elements of personal response writing with rhetorical analysis. Think of your response as your analysis of how the text tries to influence its readers rhetorically and how your wrestling with the text has expanded and deepened your thinking about its ideas (and yes, you may use first person freely in this assignment). As you work with ideas from the text, remember to use signal phrases, quotation marks for any quoted passages, and MLA documentation to distinguish your own points about the text from the author’s ideas and language. Your essay should be two to four pages in length. It should be double spaced and typed in 12-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins on all sides. You are welcome to refer to sources other than the essay you're responding to (though this is optional), but your sources should be properly documented according to MLA standards. See the sample MLA paper on pp. 277-83 in Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments for details. Sample citation of an article from Good Reasons: Marks, Paul. "Armchair Warlords and Robot Hordes." New Scientist 28 Oct. 2006. Rpt. in Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments. Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer. 6th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2014. 437-38. Digital File.
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