Essay #2 Cover Sheet
Name:
Essay Topic:
1. Describe your exigence:
2. Essay Title:
3. What’s the They Say?
4. What’s the I Say?
5. Who is your intended audience (that probably needs convincing? and so that you have a slightly hostile or dubious audience)
6. What is your purpose for this paper? What do you want to DO TO the reader? (make them change mind? Understand a complexity? Reevaluate a common sense idea? Feel guilty about a behavior? Buy a car? Vote for a candidate?)
7. Who are you dedicating this paper to? (not yourself, not “every student at HC”, but a real person who you are thinking about when you write this paper… and might feel touched by it)
8. Describe how you organized your essay. (ex. Did you model it closely on a specific essay we examined? Did you use a combination of models (which ones?)? Did you organize by specific types of logos?)
9. Which style strategies of professional authors did you imitate in your paper? (see the “article review” section of the Weebly to remind yourself of the names). Make a key here which names and describes the stylistic strategy. Then, on your paper, hi-lite your stylistic imitation moves in YELLOW. Experiment with at least 2 of them.
10. Which structural strategies of professional authors did you imitate in your paper? (see the “article review” section of the Weebly to remind yourself of the names). Make a key here which names and describes the stylistic strategy. Then, on your paper, hi-lite your structural imitation moves in GREEN. Experiment with at least 2 of them.
11. Do you answer the questions: who cares? why does this matter? what would be the problem if this “problem” continues to exist? Please hi-lite these sections in PINK.
12. What’s something that you’re really proud of in this paper? Something you hammered? Something you experimented with and are pleased with? Describe what you’re proud of… and hi-lite the section in BLUE.
Name:
Essay Topic:
1. Describe your exigence:
2. Essay Title:
3. What’s the They Say?
4. What’s the I Say?
5. Who is your intended audience (that probably needs convincing? and so that you have a slightly hostile or dubious audience)
6. What is your purpose for this paper? What do you want to DO TO the reader? (make them change mind? Understand a complexity? Reevaluate a common sense idea? Feel guilty about a behavior? Buy a car? Vote for a candidate?)
7. Who are you dedicating this paper to? (not yourself, not “every student at HC”, but a real person who you are thinking about when you write this paper… and might feel touched by it)
8. Describe how you organized your essay. (ex. Did you model it closely on a specific essay we examined? Did you use a combination of models (which ones?)? Did you organize by specific types of logos?)
9. Which style strategies of professional authors did you imitate in your paper? (see the “article review” section of the Weebly to remind yourself of the names). Make a key here which names and describes the stylistic strategy. Then, on your paper, hi-lite your stylistic imitation moves in YELLOW. Experiment with at least 2 of them.
10. Which structural strategies of professional authors did you imitate in your paper? (see the “article review” section of the Weebly to remind yourself of the names). Make a key here which names and describes the stylistic strategy. Then, on your paper, hi-lite your structural imitation moves in GREEN. Experiment with at least 2 of them.
11. Do you answer the questions: who cares? why does this matter? what would be the problem if this “problem” continues to exist? Please hi-lite these sections in PINK.
12. What’s something that you’re really proud of in this paper? Something you hammered? Something you experimented with and are pleased with? Describe what you’re proud of… and hi-lite the section in BLUE.