Last Post

It was great having you all in class. Good luck on the rest of your academic en devours.

• And in some last house cleaning information related to class, please make sure you completed all major assignments, otherwise you will receive an incomplete.  

Here are some words of wisdom to motivate you along the way:

Incomplete / Late Assignments

Tomorrow is the last date for revised essay submissions

• Late essays will incur penalty
• Incomplete essays need to be submitted for grading
• After tomorrow I will not accept anymore essays (unless at my discretion) 
• Thursday we will take a quiz and I will issue final grades

Final Week

8/5 Mon.   Final essay Due
8/6 Tues.  Workshop/Revise any final essays
8/7 Wed.  Workshop/Revise any final essays
8/8 Thu.   Final (Quiz will replace lowest score)

• Final grades will be distributed 

8/1

BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK: WE WILL DISCUSS TOULMIN & ROGERIAN OUTLINES

• APA LABS DUE (1&2)
• FIND 1 SOURCE FROM JSTOR/EBSCO RELATED TO YOUR TOPIC
• WE WILL BE CREATING A REFERENCE PAGE WITH IT

I WILL BE MEETING WITH EACH OF YOU ABOUT YOUR GRADES

FINAL ESSAY PROMPT

Final Essay

Your last essay will be an argumentative paper focused on one of the following subjects. Using either the Toulmin or Rogerian model of argumentation, you will use rhetorical strategies discussed in class to provide research-based evidence, documentation, and argumentative structure to provide discourse your subject.  You will be graded on the following criteria: (1.) quality of writing (2.) clarity, organization of paper, good intro, good closing, well developed paragraphs (3.) meaningful integration of reading/s.

·         2 academic sources

·         JSTOR or EBSCOhost. 

·         Make sure that you are trying your best to find reliable information, especially from certain “newsworthy” sources

·         APA format

·         5 pages

·         Reference page 

DUE: 8/5

Gun Reform

·         Any issues related to gun laws and or reform

·         Gun violence

·         Statistical information related to guns, firearms, and or reform

·         Race and guns

Women’s Rights /LGBTQIA

·         Issues related to abortion rights

·         Issues related to the #metoo movement

·         Inequalities related to gender

Environment

·         Issues related to environmental reform

·         Issues related to emission standards and pollution

·         Issues related to climate change

Immigration

·         Issues related to reform

·         Issues related to border security

·         Issues related to border culture

Attach This To The Essay at The End:

“This work is my own, complete, without consulting or discussing questions and answers with others. All published and internet sources have been cited and not plagiarized.”

Lab 2 APA

Question 1:

JSTOR

Key Word: film studies

Find: Introducing Film Studies

p. 94

Cite the following APA:

“They get an introduction to film history from a point of view reflective of and grounded in my published research”

Question 2:

EBSCOhost

Key Word: film studies an introduction

Find: Irish Film and Media Studies Publication. Introduction

Cite the following in APA:

“Irish cinema has tended to be read this way too – as reflecting and reflecting on national and social concerns”

Question 3:
Publication: 2007

Book, pg. 81

Borderland / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

Cite the following in APA:

“Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself. Until I can accept as legitimate Chicano Texas Spanish, Tex-Mex and all the other languages I speak, I cannot accept the legitimacy of myself”

In the above passage, Anzaldúa questions her legitimacy as a person through her language and culture.

In the above passage, the author questions her legitimacy as a person through her language and culture.

Lab 1 APA

Quote borrowed from:

Article: “Dangerous Families” and “Intimate Harm” in Hemingway ”Indian Camp”

Author: Lisa Tyler

Source: Texas Studies in Literature & Language, Spring2006, Vol. 48

Issue 1, p37-53.

“The story thus presents Nick with two alternatives for responding to women’s suffering—and the suffering in this story is once again clearly gendered suffering”

Citing More Than Three Authors:

 Authors: Kalay, Johnston , Emerson , Allison , Diaz

Year of Publication: 2013

Pg. 120

“The name given to her is another stimulating situation reflected by Cisneros. While it means ‘complication’ or ‘chaos’ in Spanish, it means ‘faith’ and ‘desire’ in English language”

Kalay et al.  mentions that Cisneros uses code switching to give us double meanings in Spanish and in

English.

The author mentions that Cisneros uses code switching to give us double meanings in Spanish and in English