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Close reading is an in-depth critical look at a text to better understand it. For this assignment, you will be doing a close reading critique of one of your sources.
Select one of the resources from your annotated bibliography that you are using in your research paper.
Complete a close reading critique of the selected resource.
Write a 500-to-750-word close reading critique of your source. Include or address the following questions in your critique:
What are the main ideas of the text?
What is the author’s viewpoint? Does the author advocate for or against something?
Does the author use evidence to support their claims? For example, do they have any works cited?
Where is the text from? Is it an article, book, or blog? Do you feel as if the text is from a reputable source? Why or why not?
A minimum of one in-text citation and reference page that includes the source you are reviewing.

Answer ALL of the following topics.  You should use your copy of the book. Label your response document appropriately with your name, and topic numbers. Answers should be 3-5 sentences. Giving specific examples (like quotes or other evidence) to support your responses is the only way to get full credit. Include page numbers for your evidence. Each topic will be worth 20 points.  
1.      Mattie says there are two types of books…books that tell entertaining “stories,” and books that tell “the truth” about life and make you think.  In your opinion, which category does this novel (A Northern Light) fall into?  Cite examples from the novel and/or evidence from the time period supporting your classification. 
2.      Mattie says, “I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you” (374).  In the novel, Mattie breaks two (or three) significant promises. What are those promises?  Do you think she did the right thing in each case?  Explain and support your opinion.
3.      Mattie wonders what would happen if characters in books could change their fates (the things that happen to them).  Are there characters in Mattie’s story whose fates you would like to change?  Which ones?  In what ways?  Why? (FYI: Grace Brown was a real person—can’t change her fate).
4.      Do you think it would have been possible for Mattie to pursue her love of books without losing the “love” of Royal Loomis (such as it is)?  Even if she did not marry him, could she still have become a writer (like Emily Baxter) if she continued to stay in the North Woods and care for her family?  Cite examples from the novel and/or evidence from the time period supporting your opinion.
5.      What was it about Grace Brown’s story that inspired Donnelly to write this novel? Why do you think the author chose to interweave Mattie’s story with Grace Brown’s story?  What are the main parallels between the two young women?  What are the differences?

In this discussion, you will write two analysis paragraphs and choose evidence to support the analysis of John as a tragic hero. These paragraphs become part of your analysis paper at the end of the unit where you are demonstrating how John Proctor is a tragic hero. Each paragraph should follow the format below and answer the following questions: How is John Proctor NOBLE? What is John Proctor’s tragic flaw?
All students will share and have the opportunity to learn from each other. You are required to provide a positive comment on one of your classmate’s posts. Everyone is expected to be supportive and respectful, with comments that help all learners write effectively. 1. How is John Proctor NOBLE?
Topic sentence: John proctor is noble because…(finish the sentence)
Context of Quote
Concrete detail:
Analysis:
Analysis:
Concluding sentence:
2. What is John Proctor’s tragic flaw?
Topic sentence: John Proctor’s tragic flaw is…(finish sentence)
Context of Quote
Concrete detail:
Analysis:
Analysis:
Concluding sentence:
Remember to SAVE your discussion paragraphs; these will become part of your analysis paper at the end of the unit. LESSON:John Proctor is one of the main characters in The Crucible. Evaluating the character of John Proctor is the heart of this story. It will be very important to understand the journey he goes through as his story unfolds. In fact, once you finish reading The Crucible, you will be writing a literary analysis about John Proctor. In order to do this, you need to examine the components of a character.
Characterization is the process where the writer reveals the personality of character. Direct characterization tells the audience what the personality of character is. Indirect characterization shows things that reveal personality.
Please watch the following video to review the elements of characterization. The video shows how the STEAL acronym can help you remember the elements. You can read a text version here: STEAL characterization.
This second video is a more detailed explanation of the characters. Make sure to listen for, and take notes on all characters.

my topic is about “should minors be allowed to seek reproductive health care without parental notice or consent.”
needs to be in MLA formate and intext citations
10 credible sources but NO “.com” or “.org”
transition at the beginning of each body paragraph
i uploaded a checklist that you need to check each and every one of them!

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tiktok-filter-bubbles. What do you think about filter bubbles? Do you believe you are in any? Do those bubbles reflect your true beliefs or maybe just trends of the moment? Do you believe that filter bubbles are dangerous? Explain specifically why or why not. How do you think folks can break out of said bubbles?
Respond to two or three of your peers in the group. Do you have similar bubbles or different? Explain why you think you have similar or different bubbles. Think about those similarities and differences and talk with your peer about the importance of recognizing bubbles.

Reality Hunger Research Essay
What is [what shapes] your reality?
BACKGROUND:
Writing an essay should be a personal, not an academic, process. I’ll put it another way: academic pursuits that recruit the three skills (reading, thinking, writing) we cultivate in this class are already necessarily personal, but most essays we write in composition classes either ignore or suppress this fact; we subordinate the self and adopt a conventional academic tone. The subordination of the personal voice is a problem. Style gives way to convention. Form becomes format, a formality. And when style and form can’t transcend generic formal conventions, the thoughts on the page are detached from the realities of personhood (or they’re relegated to the portion of our identities labeled “student” or “academic”). Don’t misunderstand me; learning to write an academic argumentative essay in MLA format is an important skill, but it’s not a skill I feel I need to assess over and over again. You’ve already done it in this class and in the prerequisite to this class. My concern now is for your future as a writer and a thinker. Maybe that’s grandiose, but that’s the reality.   
AI Warning: 
Do not use AI for this essay. Any AI that helps you select or “correct” your diction, syntax, punctuation, or grammar will be flagged by the AI-checking software and will result in a ZERO grade. You will probably not have time to rewrite this essay after I grade it, so don’t use ANY programs that might result in AI flags (Grammarly, Quillbot, ChatGPT, etc.). If you think it might be AI, it probably is.
ASSIGNMENT:
Write an essay, ~2,000 words about how you experience reality. The essay should indicate, directly or indirectly, some influence from Reality Hunger.
Need more direction? OK: write 2,000 words about or related to the concepts and ideas in Reality Hunger. 
Incorporate 3-10 sections, preferably from several different lettered chapters, from Shields’ book into your essay. 
Incorporate 3-5 other sources that help you develop your line(s) of thinking. The only real rule is you should write about something you care about (and by “care” I don’t mean write about the most important “issue” or whatever; it could be make-up tutorials, sneaker collabs, stand-up comedy, online gamer culture, the Senate confirmation hearings of Ketanji Brown Jackson, etc.). 
I encourage you to collage, to experiment with structure and form, to use a mix of narrative and critical modes, to incorporate images, screenshots, sounds, handwritten lists. 
SOME SEGMENTS OF RH THAT GOT ME THINKING ABOUT THIS ASSIGNMENT:
409 Why bother conducting an experiment at all if you know what results it will yield? Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental–not an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion but an unmapped quest that has sprung from the word question. […]
355 […] It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
547 […] Experience [in/of contemporary culture] is always secondhand, planned and described for one’s consumption for others in advance. Even the rare, authentically direct experience is spoiled by self-consciousness. We’re doomed to an imitation of life.*
*I’m not sure I agree with the last sentence of segment 547. If I disagree, I’m not sure whether I disagree in total (i.e. I don’t believe we’re doomed to an imitation of life), or whether I take issue with the diction (doomed: such a fateful word, so absolute, and, as such, it undercuts itself; if there’s no way to avoid it, then it’s just life, right? imitation: it’s true that most experience is influenced or mediated in some way; think of our zero-level discussions, or think of how the algorithms determine what we see online, but awareness of influence just adds another layer to experience), or maybe I disagree with the premise, the assumption that there is such a thing as a binary of real/imitation life.  
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Assignment Prompt: Rhetorical Analysis Overview Before you start working on your own research argument essay, you will spend some time studying the arguments of others, to better understand how they successfully structured and presented a persuasive project. The rhetorical analysis is a foundational assignment to introduce you to the “rhetorical situation,” as a concept. The goal is for you to take what you learn about successful argument, and apply it to your own writing in this course. For this rhetorical analysis assignment, you will analyze a speech (see the options below) to gain a better understanding of “the rhetorical situation”- the audience, purpose, medium, and context–within which the speech was created. In addition to dissecting the speech’s rhetorical situation, you will also identify and discuss the author’s choice of rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) or evidence. *This is the one and only assignment that is not driven by your personal topic selection, as all the following assignments build on each other starting with the Annotated Bibliography and concluding with the Research Story. Expectations As a foundational assignment, the rhetorical analysis will help you to: Identify and analyze the rhetorical elements of a piece of communication Assess the effectiveness of a speaker’s choices, in relation to the rhetorical situation Build a foundation for future argument writing based on the skills and strategies identified and analyzed in this assignment Requirements Length: There is a 1000 word-minimum. All elements noted below are to be included in the analysis. See Assignment Organization. * if the minimum word count is not met, your assignment will be returned with no grade and a resubmission will be required. Organization: Check out the table below for more information about the required content and conditions of each component: Component Content Conditions Introduction (Description) The intro is your first chance to reach your reader, engage their interest, and include all of the forecasting for the rest of the essay, such as the purpose of the writing project, and the parameters of your investigation. Be sure to focus on what the speaker is doing, how, and why, using the conditions as your guide. Make sure that you clearly state the speaker and the title of the speech, along with any other details that will help provide the reader with context about your analysis. Place the speech in a broader context. Introduce the speech by characterizing the speaker and the occasion. Identify the audience and situation for which the speech is intended. Describe the speaker’s purpose. THESIS/CLAIM: Identify the rhetorical strategies that you have decided to discuss and indicate, in general terms, how they function to promote the author’s purpose in relation to the intended audience. Body (Analysis) The body will include paragraphs that will have their own topic sentences developed with specifics from the speech. You may want to focus each paragraph on one rhetorical strategy, or you may focus on different parts of one strategy. Useful strategies for developing paragraphs include: Defining the rhetorical strategy(ies). Quoting or paraphrasing examples to illustrate the writer’s use of the strategy (two or three examples generally suffice). Explaining how the example illustrates the strategy and how the strategy contributes to the writer’s purpose. Conclusion (Evaluation) The conclusion serves the purpose of reiterating your thesis, briefly summarizing the main points of your analysis, and explaining the significance of your analysis. The significance of your analysis may be suggested by asking questions such as these: How do the rhetorical strategies that you discussed explain the effects the speaker achieved with his or her audience? Why were the strategies effective or not effective with the speaker’s core constituency and with other audiences? What do the rhetorical strategies suggest about the speaker’s agenda? Document Formatting: MLA formatting: Heading (name, assignment name, course name, date), original title, header (page numbers), line-spacing (double-spaced), 1”margins, and 12-point font size, Times New Roman or sans-serif font. The thesis must be underlined. Genre/Style: Formal analysis: thesis-driven and paragraph formatted Speech Options Please rhetorically analyze ONE of the following speeches for this assignment. All speeches can be found within the “Opposing Viewpoints” database connected to this course. See the “Banner” to access the “Opposing Viewpoints” link. “I Co-Founded Facebook. It’s Time to Break It Up.” NYTimes.com Video Collection, 9 May 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CT585557102/OVIC?u=bal3345&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=6cc2e568. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021. “Just Whom Is This Divorce ‘Good For?’.” Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources, edited by K. Lee Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 74-78. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2688300041/OVIC?u=bal3345&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=d68cc44c. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021. Smith, Margaret Chase. “A Declaration of Conscience.” Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources, edited by K. Lee Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 181-184. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2687500079/OVIC?u=bal3345&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=24661ce7. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021. “To Every Englishman in India.” Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources, edited by Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 387-390. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2560000142/OVIC?u=bal3345&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=526cff51. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021. Last modified: Friday, January 26, 2024, 10:55 AM

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For this activity, you will find 2 credible sources and 4 concrete details on Wes Moore. Remember that concrete details are facts or evidence. Your concrete details should consist of substantial information about his life and career, not simply where he was born or how old he is. Find engaging facts and evidence about the author. While researching, it’s important to list the source with each fact. At this stage, just copying the URL link will be sufficient for listing the source. Please follow the below format.
Concrete Detail:
Source #1:
Concrete Detail:
Source #2:
Concrete Detail:
Source:
Concrete Detail:
Source:
Notice how the words taken from the article are put in quotes to avoid plagiarism. Example:
Concrete Detail: “Wes Moore, a best-selling author who escaped a troubled youth in the Bronx to become a Rhodes Scholar and social entrepreneur, will be the new chief executive officer of Robin Hood.”
Source: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/author-wes-moore-will-be-ceo-of-robin-hood-nonprofit