Category Archives: English

Based on your brainstorm/t-chart develop a short essay that explains your side. Is this your “best of times” or your “worst of times”?

  Topic: 1.02 Application (Personal Reflection—Writing) How to Complete Think: Throughout your time as a student you have had many experiences. Some experiences lead us to believe that the time we are living in is “the best of times,” whereas for others, it may feel like “the worst of times.” Do: Develop a brainstorm or […]

What evidence would best convince them-What genre fits the audience/purpose angle?

Generating Ideas with Visuals and Paragraphing Control Generating Ideas with Visuals By Dave Gillespie When you start any piece of writing, keep two rhetorical aspects firmly in mind: audience and purpose. Every writing situation requires inquiry: What do the readers know? What evidence would best convince them? What genre fits the audience/purpose angle? What style? […]

Compare-contrast Are any of the problems, effects, or solutions contrasting ideas? Maybe one solution would be costly, another cheap.

Generating Ideas with Visuals and Paragraphing Control After rechecking the assignment’s directions (for audience, purpose, any content requirements, format needs, etc.), use the five main organizational patterns (for body paragraphs) to generate and plan ideas. Note how the following table could break down ideas from the previous one: Classification What specific problems, effects, and solutions […]

Based on your Values Brainstorm, what do you feel could be the TWO values you explore in your essay?

Confrence After reading the prompt for the essay answer these premliminery questions before the essay which  will order after thanks 1. What are you most nervous about in regard to this paper? 2. What do you feel good about? 3. Based on your Values Brainstorm, what do you feel could be the TWO values you […]

What’s the relation between your imagined experience of college and your daily life in the last couple of weeks?

What did you envision when you were applying to colleges? What kind of university were you hoping to go to? What felt important to you? Academic ranking? Athletics? The Greek System? A particular major? The look of the campus? The ethos of the college? How did you imagine yourself as a college student? Did you […]

Write a summary essay of Mary Meehan’s “The Perfect Name for the Next Generation of Americans

Topic: Summary paper Length: 200 words minimum, 250 maximum (be sure to include the word count). Assignment Write a summary essay of Mary Meehan’s “The Perfect Name for the Next Generation of Americans,” (Links to an external site.) using the appropriate parenthetical (internal or in-text) citations and including a Work Cited page.  

Write a 3-5 page Short Story Literary Analysis Essay-Conduct a literary/rhetorical analysis of a short story.

Write a 3-5 page Short Story Literary Analysis Essay. Conduct a literary/rhetorical analysis of a short story. The principles used here are the same as any analysis of literature, except that the stories are, as the name implies, shorter. Determine a major theme, atmosphere, or rhetorical idea and explore (by looking at at least 3 […]

Discuss how the author uses writing style and development of ideas to develop or support her claim. Give specific examples.

Assignment 1 Directions: Read “Losing Streak” by Kathryn Schultz. Write a 240-260-word rhetorical summary of the article that includes the following: Identify the author, the title of the article, and the author’s topic statement or main claim. Identify the audience and the purpose of the article. Discuss how the author uses rhetorical elements to develop […]