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  • Due Sep 16, 2018 by 11:59pm
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Essay 1

Goal:

Students will compose a largely error-free rhetorical analysis of Adichie’s Ted Talk “The Danger of a Single Story.”

Outcomes:

Upon completion of this essay, students will be able to:

  • Identify how authors are using rhetorical moves to persuade us in our everyday lives
  • Critically analyze rhetorical moves to improve critical thinking skills
  • Analyze a student sample essay to help outline and draft rhetorical analysis essay
  • Complete discussions and peer review which aim to polish analytical skills before submitting a final draft
  • Consistently and accurately use MLA citations for Adichie’s text

Instructions:

To successfully complete this assignment, you will:

Have an introduction that—

  • Accurately and effectively introduce and contextualize the topic, article, project, and argument in introduction. Have a clear statement that indicates how the paper will proceed.
  • Indicate a clear focus in a well-written thesis statement and stay focused throughout the essay.
  • Describe Adichie’s project and argument, and what you see as his most important or interesting sub-claims, explaining how these sub-claims relate to the main claim.

Have body paragraphs which—

  • Describe how Adichie organizes her text and how this influences what she has to say.
  • Analyze and evaluate the way she supports his claims, and the moves or strategies she employs to persuade her audience.
  • Describe the strategy/strategies, provide interpretation and analysis of how the strategy works, and explain why Adichie chose to use these strategies (purpose and audience)

Include a conclusion which—

  • Comments on how this text is significant—what difference it might make to readers (this can go in the conclusion).

Overall—

  • Implements proper stylistic conventions to include: sentence variation, college-level vocabulary, target audience, complex sentence structure
  • Smoothly integrate supporting evidence (quotes) into the text.
  • Use an effective structure that carefully guides the reader from one idea to the next, and be thoroughly edited so that sentences are readable and appropriate for an academic audience.
  • Write the paper as if addressing a reader unfamiliar with the text.
  • Include proper MLA documentation, with in-text citations and a Works Cited list at the end.
  • Write 3-5 pages not including the Works Cited page

Submission and Grading:

This assignment will be submitted via a file attachment. Be sure to attach a .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Once you've attached your essay file, click Submit! The essay will be graded using the rubric below. Please review the rubric prior to submitting your final draft.

You must score an 80 or above in order for the Assignment to be counted as "Complete." You will need to revise any score under 80.

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Rubric

Essay 1 Rubric: Adichie Rhetorical Analysis (1)
Essay 1 Rubric: Adichie Rhetorical Analysis (1)
Criteria Ratings
Thesis
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Strong Thesis is a statement about the effectiveness of Adichie's argument/strategies and is easily identifiable.
Meeting Expectations The thesis is not clearly laid out in the introduction. The thesis may not be a clear, argumentative thesis that clearly and directly answers the prompt. It may be an announcement instead of a solid, clear, opinionated statement. It may be vague and more of an observation rather than an opinionated statement about the effectiveness of Adichie's strategies.
Not Yet The thesis cannot be identified or is missing. The paper lacks a clear focus because the thesis is unclear and there is no statement regarding the effectiveness of Adichie's rhetorical strategies.
Grammar
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Strong 1-2 Proofreading errors (misspelling, missing commas)
Meeting Expectations Grammar errors are distracting but do not interfere with comprehending the essay.
Not Yet The grammar makes the language hard to understand and therefore impacts the content comprehension.
MLA
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Strong 0 errors in MLA but perhaps citation formatting is inconsistent
Meeting Expectations 1-2 errors in MLA
Not Yet 3 or more errors in MLA
Organization
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Strong The essay's body paragraphs follow logically. Each paragraph discusses one specific strategy (or 2-3 if the strategies relate to one another) and stays on topic and connects to the topic sentences. There are transitions to guide the reader from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph.
Meeting Expectations The essay's body paragraphs follow logically; however, 1-2 paragraphs may have an unclear focus or topic sentence. At times, the student may try to discuss more than 1 unrelated strategy in the same paragraph or the strategy may not be explicitly identified. There are some transitions to guide the reader from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph, but there may be a couple places where there are missing transitions.
Not Yet The essay does not move smoothly through the body paragraphs. Ideas may be repeated in different paragraphs, and paragraphs may not have clear topic sentences which do not identify the strategy from Adichie's Ted Talk. Transitions are missing. It's hard to see how ideas are logically connected.
Use of evidence
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Strong The student chooses specific quotes from Adichie's speech that directly illustrate the rhetorical strategies stated in the topic sentences for each body paragraph. The student demonstrates an understanding of how to locate the strategies and label them accurately.The evidence is contextualized and introduced before the quote is used.
Meeting Expectations Most of the chosen quotes accurately identify the student's strategies from the topic sentence, but there are 1-2 paragraphs that have evidence which is not clearly related to the rest of the paragraph or that may inaccurately illustrate the strategy in the topic sentence. 1-2 quotes may not match the strategy in the topic sentence. Also, some evidence may not be contextualized and may be dropped into the paragraph abruptly.
Not Yet The evidence used is hard to connect logically in the paragraphs because it is unclear how the quote illustrates the strategy from the topic sentence. There are other pieces of evidence that would have more accurately identified the strategies throughout the paper. It may be that the majority of the quotes are not contextualized and therefore, it is hard to see the relevance of the evidence used.
Style and Mechanics
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Strong No use of second person pronouns, student uses formal, academic voice.
Meeting Expectations Either student uses second person OR student uses informal tone.
Not Yet Use of second person AND informal tone
Analysis
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Strong Throughout the paper, the student thoroughly discusses: 1) how the quote illustrates the strategy from the topic sentence 2) why that strategy specifically persuades Adichie's specific, intended audience 3) why the audience would then be convinced of Adichie's overall argument because of the rhetorical strategy used
Meeting Expectations In the paper, the student consistently discusses 2 of the following (or adequately discusses all 3 but not thoroughly): 1) how the quote illustrates the strategy from the topic sentence 2) why that strategy specifically persuades Adichie's specific, intended audience 3) why the audience would then be convinced of Adichie's overall argument because of the rhetorical strategy used
Not Yet In the paper, the student makes an attempt at analysis but only covers 1 or fewer of the following consistently (or varies discussion of 1 of the following throughout): 1) how the quote illustrates the strategy from the topic sentence 2) why that strategy specifically persuades Adichie's specific, intended audience 3) why the audience would then be convinced of Adichie's overall argument because of the rhetorical strategy used