The First Analysis
Calling this the "First Analysis" is a bit of a misnomer because you have already attempted six forms of evaluative analysis of textual artifacts.
However, while your practice attempts were short and low risk, the first full analysis will comprise 35% of your grade for the semester. Consequently, your effort should reflect substantial and thoughtful engagement with the method or methods you wish to work with, that is, you should not merely add to a previous mini-analysis. The first task is to select an artifact that is rhetorically rich in its possibilities for you to evaluate it in one or more of the ways that you have already practiced:
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You can select a text you have used for your mini-analyses/ presentations, or you can select an entirely new artifact.
A full analysis will be at least seven full pages double-spaced, but no more than nine (not including works cited). Select MLA or APA for your citation format and be consistent. In your paper you will need to accomplish the following items (you are not required to follow these items to "order" your argument--in fact, you will need to braid all these elements together):
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What is dueYou will provide your final version within a portfolio that will include the following items:
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We will create workshop groups, and you will need to send your draft to your group a day prior to any scheduled workshop.
You will also need to email your revised draft to your group and me the night before your group/individual conference. |
Here is the rubric we will use:
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