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For this essay, you will write an essay that uses the same topic and mostly the same sources as Essay 3, but with a very different rhetorical situation. You may want to do more research, especially if you want more current, popular, or web sources, but it is not required.
Document should have the following:
- Header on every page with last name and page number
- Heading information (MLA format)
- Center align Rhetorical Situation
- Description of situation
- Center align title of your article
- Article
- Center align Works Cited
- The works cited for the article
Part 1: Rhetorical Situation
Before your article, you will need to describe the rhetorical situation for your writing. This should be about a paragraph or two that answers the following questions in depth:
- Who is the primary audience? (current composition students, future composition students, teachers not related to composition, or another equally specific audience?)
- What is your primary purpose and argument?
- What is the importance of persuading this particular audience of this particular claim?
- Where would this be published? (a website like The Conversation? a magazine sent to teachers? be descriptive if you do not have an existing publication)
- Why would this type of publication be effective?
Requirements:
- Description of rhetorical situation should be at least 100 words
Part 2: Article
For this part, you will write an essay that makes an argument using textual sources that would be published in a periodical (online or print). This means you will need to follow guidelines for popular and web writing such as using shorter paragraphs, using section headings, using images with captions, and providing hyperlinks to your sources and additional info (web only). Where this is intended to be published will play a large factor in the kind of language used, so spend a bit of time looking at similar pieces to get a sense of what the audience expects. In addition, there should be some counterargument and rebuttal. Perhaps there are conflicting findings, objections to the argument, alternative answers, or reasons against taking action.
Requirements:
- At least one scholarly source
- At least two other sources (scholarly or popular)
- At least five functional and properly formatted hyperlinks (online situation only)
- At least one photograph with a caption and proper credit
- At least one section heading
- Counterargument and rebuttal
- Article should be 800-1000 words (not including caption or headings)
