Writing Homework Help

Read each source and decide if and HOW it will help you write your final essay 

1. Your sources MUST help you write an effective rhetorical analysis

SUBMIT: A WORKS CITED DOC where you cite each outside source (article, essay) that you will use in your final essay.

1. Your Sources must fill outside knowledge gaps, help you analyze the work of each writer, teach you something about research and rhetoric, etc…

USE: Times New Romans, 12 point font, hanging indent, double space each entry but SINGLE between entries. You will need three entries. 

1. Write a summary on chapter 8.4 and chapter 22, Evaluating Sources. Mention in your summary how/ IF these chapters gave ideas on how to do research, how to interpret your research, and how to apply your research to your final essay: MWP #3 -Rhetorical Analysis of Eve Babitz and Joan Didion. 

SUBMIT ONE MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT

1. Use separate headings (Works Cited, Chapter 8.4 Summary, Chapter 22 Summary) 

1. What is rhetorical analysis:

“Rhetorical criticism analyzes the symbolic artifacts of discourse—the words, phrases, images, gestures, performances, texts, films, etc. that people use to communicate.”

According to Miami University of Ohio:

1. A rhetorical analysis considers all elements of the rhetorical situation–the audience, purpose, medium, and context–within which a communication was generated and delivered in order to make an argument about that communication. A strong rhetorical analysis will not only describe and analyze the text, but will also evaluate it; that evaluation represents your argument.

Description: What does this text look like? Where did you find the text? Who sponsored it? What are the rhetorical appeals? (i.e. calm music in the background of a commercial establishes pathos) When was it written?

1. Analysis: Why does the author incorporate these rhetorical appeals? (For example, why does the author incorporate calm music? What is the point of the pathos?) How would the reception of this text change if it were written today, as opposed to twenty years ago? What is left out of this text and why? Should there be more logos in the ad? Why?

Evaluation: Is the text effective? Is the text ethical? What might you change about this text to make it more persuasive?

1. SAMPLE MLA ANNOTATION FROM PURDUE OWL

NOTE THE HIGHLIGHTED PORTION. 

1. Students often neglect to mention HOW this article will help write their paper. 

Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anchor Books, 1995.

1. Lamott’s book offers honest advice on the nature of a writing life, complete with its insecurities and failures. Taking a humorous approach to the realities of being a writer, the chapters in Lamott’s book are wry and anecdotal and offer advice on everything from plot development to jealousy, from perfectionism to struggling with one’s own internal critic.

In the process, Lamott includes writing exercises designed to be both productive and fun. Lamott offers sane advice for those struggling with the anxieties of writing, but her main project seems to be offering the reader a reality check regarding writing, publishing, and struggling with one’s own imperfect humanity in the process. Rather than a practical handbook to producing and/or publishing, this text is indispensable because of its honest perspective, its down-to-earth humor, and its encouraging approach.

Chapters in this text could easily be included in the curriculum for a writing class. Several of the chapters in Part 1 address the writing process and would serve to generate discussion on students’ own drafting and revising processes. Some of the writing exercises would also be appropriate for generating classroom writing exercises. Students should find Lamott’s style both engaging and enjoyable.

THIS ARE THE 3 ARTICLES THAT I ALREADY SUBMIT

                                                                           Works Cited

“Book World”: A new look at Eve Babitz: Artist, provocateur and unlikely feminist icon.(Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.). Creator : Elizabeth Hand. Publisher: The Washington Post, 2019-01-02. 

“I have been keeping some notes for some time now : narrative critique and gendered allegory in the novels of Joan Didion”. Creator: Megan Peters. Contemporary women’s writing, 2016, Vol. 10 (2), p.236-252.

“Joan Didion Daughter of Old California”. Creator: Robert Lacy. The Sewanee review, 2014-07-01, Vol.122 (3), p.500-505