10.23 Workshop + choosing essays for Analysis

Below is a list of the assignments we used to build your essay for project 1.  These assignments will count toward the homework/writing-your-essa- through-a-series-of-drafts credit associated with Project 1: Persuasive Essay.

Persuasive writing assignments for portfolio

Each assignment should be named with your last name and the name of the assignment.

Practice argument 1 (10.9):

Feedback for peers(in-class, 10.9):

Practice argument 2 (10.14):

Brainstorming/rhetorical analysis for Project1 (10.16):

Rough draft Project 1 (10.21):

Plan for revision Project 1(10.23):

Revised Draft Project 1(10.23):

Final draft Project 1(10.30):
Reflective writing on Project (10.30):

If you have re-posted work for earlier assignments and you want me too re-evaluate, write a note on the landing page naming the assignments you want me to consider. ***As discussed in class, the latest point in the semester to revise/re-post/re-write material for re-assessment (raising your grade) for the summary response uint, is November 9 - two weeks from today.

Choosing essays for the Analysis unit.
We spent the first part of class reviewing the focus and "themes" of the essays in the Fast Food section of TS/IS. (Thank you Jessica for the photo of our work). I think you can enlarge this to see the categories- but just in case they are hard to read, the categories, or "topics" that connected to one or more essays, were:

1. The politics of fast fooe/or how fast food impacts particular groups of people
2. Cultural identities and eating as a "cultural construction" (something you do because of "the way you were raised" or who you hang out with)
3. Health = fast food as a cause (or not) for being overweight/unhealthy
4. Individual rights to decide how/what you eat
5. Science can tell us (or not) how to eat/be healthy
6. Regulating the way we eat
7 Analysis of who the piece was written for and how or whether it might be written differently for a different audience.

This work to identify and classify essays in the unit was in itself an example of how analysis works and what it is good for  Analysis identifies features of a set of "things", classifies (categorizes) those features, and describes relationships among categories, and among features within categories.  Don't worry if that doesn't make sense, we will be working on it all term.

The readings you chose include writing by : Haygood, Zinczenko, Warner, Freeman, and Pollan.  We also noted that we may, in addition, read Orbach & Obama.

During the second part of class you worked on your essays, and signed up for (optional) conferences.

Conference schedule:
Monday: 1:20 Sabrina; 1:40 Doreen
Tuesday  1:20 Khizer, 2:00 Terrell

For next class:
Read: nothing
Write:  final draft Persuasive essay.\

You will spend the first part of class making sure you have the correct assignments posted to the correct page of your portfolio, and writing your reflective analysis of (and grading)  the persuasive essay.