9.30 Getting ready for persuasion - finishing up response

On Thursday 10.2 ENG 1031 meets in CAS 352, and ENG 1032 meets in CAS 245.

Essay choices for persuasive writing
We started class by discussing which essays you wanted to read for the work on persuasive writing. You identified the following topics as  associated with this unit, "Is Higher Education Worth the Price?"

(requiring) a college degree is wrong (stupid) - it shouldn't be expected or assumed that going to college is the only choice
what good is a college education
why does it cost so much?
what is a "liberal arts" education and why should college education focus on it?

After some discussion, you decided as a class that the last two issues were what you wanted to focus on and we chose the following essays to provide a basis for exploring those issues.

Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus:  Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission? (179)
Sanford J Ungar: The New Liberal Arts (190)
Robin Wilson:  A Lifetime of Student Debt?  Not Likely (256)

The Hacker & Dreifus, and the Wilson address costs, and the Ungar essay describes what students get for their money.

Finishing up your response essays
You spent the rest of class working on your response essays and the reflective writing to assess your writing process & your response essay.  From the one-on-one conferences I had with you, the main issues I noticed in our talk connected to making sure you are writing a response (making They Say and I Say moves in the right place, with transitions).   Overall though - looks good and like we are ready to move to the next genre!

For next class:
Read: Chapter 12 in They Say/I Say, and Ungar, The New Liberal Arts (p. 179)
Write: Post your revised response essay and the reflective writing to your  Response page.*

In our next class we will get started on writing persuasive essays.

* Over the weekend (after you turn in your work on 10.2) I will grade your response writing and give you a feedback sheet like the one you got for the summary unit.  I will be looking for the following homework/assignments posted to the response page.

brainstorming for your response essay (in class 9.18)
draft response (the one you workshopped in class 9.25)
plan to revise your response essay (homework for 9.30)
revised response (in-class 9.30)
reflective writing on response essays (in-class 9.30)

See you Thursday in CAS 352.