This assignment, the final draft of the Professional Writing Analysis Essay, differs from the draft of this essay only in that your final essay should be 750 words, minimum. Essays will be penalized for being under word count. Review the rubric for details about essay length and grading.
Every career requires writing of some kind. You may not yet be aware of what those kinds of writings are, so learning more about that topic will be one aspect of this assignment. Once you have discovered what kind of writing is required in your field (I’m using profession, career, and field somewhat interchangeably here…you can substitute job as well), choose a piece -or kind of- writing that is long and meaningful enough to be analyzed for the rhetorical characteristics of audience, purpose, and tone. If you are unsure about what kind of writing qualifies, be sure to ask me!
Examples of professional writing that you might work with based on your field include: a patient evaluation, criminal report, technical manual, lesson plan, artists’ statement, event summary, or public relations statement. Do you get the idea?
Once you have a kind of document in mind, you will analyze it using audience, purpose, and tone, providing evidence for your claims from the writing.
Additionally, you will be required to use the grading rubric for the essay to peer review one another, including comments about what is working well with this essay (based on these instructions and the rubric), as well as what needs improvement (again, based clearly on the instructions and rubric).
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with the opportunity to learn more about writing in your field through research and rhetorical analysis. Another purpose is to provide you with an opportunity to support your ideas with evidence. Finally, another purpose is to provide you with the opportunity to work with one another on the process of writing, and the understand writing as a process.
Skills:
Learn and practice: editing and peer revision, research techniques, the application or rhetorical concepts, composing clear, focused claims, providing appropriate evidence for claims, contextualizing a meaningful analytical essay with an overview, summary, and conclusion
By completing this assignment you will have worked toward the following module level learning objective:
Rhetorical Analysis Essay (1)
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome1st Paragraph: Field, types of writing, chosen writing, and focused claim with analytical topics included |
5.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeBody Paragraphs include clear, focused topic sentences and at least 2 pieces of supporting evidence analysis of purpose, audience, and tone (per paragraph) |
10.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConcluding paragraph includes summary of evidence as well as a reflective conclusion about what was learned |
5.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEssay is generally mechanically clean, with few spelling and grammar errors |
5.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeLength of final draft minimum of 750 words; penalized by 5 points per 150 words short. Less than 250 words earns 0 points. |
25.0 pts |
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Total Points: 50.0 |
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