Final Exam-Due 12/5 at 11:59PM
1. Each response should make a claim in response to the prompt and then support your claim with evidence from the texts we have read this semester.
2. Avoid details that do not help support your thesis.
3. Use quotation marks and MLA format citations in your answers. You do not need to create a works cited page.
4. Each answer should be half a page double spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font.
5. You may use your books, notes, or any content I have provided for you. Collaborating with your classmates or anyone else on this assignment is cheating. Using internet sources that I did not assign as part of your reading is cheating. Using language that is not your own without using quotation marks and citing your source is cheating.
6. I will grade you based on the quality of your claim and support and the clarity of your writing. I want to see a good understanding of the key ideas we’ve talked about this semester, so reference key ideas we discussed with each reading/text/lesson.
7. Use the prompt numbers to help make it clear which prompt you are addressing.
Respond to all
four prompts below:
1. Throughout the course, you have had an opportunity to engage in the writing process. Discussing each part, compare your writing process prior to the course to now. In which areas have you grown? If applicable, in which areas do you struggle? Provide an example of one of the major assignments to support your answer.
0. Compare the rhetorical strategies of logos, ethos, and pathos used in Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism” or David Zinczenko’s “Don’t Blame the Eater” to one of the designated Essay 1
or Essay 2 readings. Which article or reading is most effective at addressing naysayers in its argument (implicitly or explictly)? How so? To support your answer, incorporate quotes/paraphrases/summaries as you use applicable templates from
TS/IS.
0. Identify a reading for
either Essay 1 or Essay 2 that incorporates an interesting perspective compared to your own. Discuss your values, current role(s), and/or interests in relation to those expressed in the selection. Select a quote from the reading that reflects the author’s perspective. Smoothly incorporate the quote from the readings as you explain it and respond using one of the following responses: yes, no or ok, but.
Note: This reading may be the same or a different one you used for your essay.
0. You’ve had an opportunity to select and develop arguments on controversial topics. An image is included here that focuses on a controversial topic–the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overrule Roe v. Wade. The 1973 case ruling declared “that unduly restrictive state regulation of
abortion is unconstitutional”’ (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Using your knowledge from the course, make a claim about the image with consideration of rhetorical elements of audience, persona, purpose, and context (occasion). Then, discuss the rhetorical appeals to support the claim. I am not asking about your opinion on the decision; rather, I am interested in your ability to apply your analytical skills to visual texts.
“SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Shannon Brewer, the clinic
director at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, gestures to an anti-abortion activist during
a protest outside the Supreme Court building, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion
rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in Washington, U.S., December 1,
2021.REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein” (“With Roe v. Wade”)
Works Cited
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica . “Roe v. Wade.”
Britannica, 2022,
“With Roe v. Wade in Peril, State Legislatures Stand Ready to Enact New Abortion Laws.”
PBS News Hour,
stand-ready-to-enact-abortion-laws
.
