Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Lesson Week 8 Assignment 1 Template (Links to an external site.) This assignment is an exciting chance for you to address the course outcomes in a new and personalized manner. You will consider the next year in four "chunks" of months. Based on your passions and uses for argument in different areas of your life, you will evaluate possible argument scenarios, considering audience and argument techniques. This as...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: pp. 510-523. Lesson Apply the following writing resources to your posts: Link (website): APA Citation and Writing  (Links to an external site.) Initial Post Instructions Main Post Part 1: Read and Respond After thoroughly reading the Week 8 lesson and the required textbook pages, go back and re-read, specifically, the articles from the assigned Week 8 textbook pages. Ask yourself: In the t...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: pp. 293-318 and 337-356 Lesson APA Guidelines (Links to an external site.) This week's assignment is the final, revised draft of your Argument Research Paper. This final copy will demonstrate the argument, writing, and revision techniques studied in the course and will build upon the steps you have taken in previous weeks toward thoroughly and carefully revising your Argument Research Paper  down...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: pp. 303-305. Lesson Apply the following writing resources to your posts: Link (website): APA Citation and Writing  (Links to an external site.) Initial Post Instructions Main Post Part 1: Share Your Revision Plan You have now received feedback from your instructor and from your peers, and you have already been applying revision strategies to your draft in the past week. This week, you w...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Lesson One presentation medium such as Prezi, narrated PowerPoint, video, screen capture, or another with which you are familiar and comfortable. Check out the sample presentation for this assignment!Play media comment. Your Week 6 assignment is a brief and fun one. It allows you to think "outside the box" about your issue and stance. The title of the assignment is a bit silly and intriguing, but the idea is...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Required Peer Review Sheet download Lesson Initial Post Instructions Main Post Part 1: Attach Your Draft and Explain Your Goals After you have thoroughly read and revisited this week's lesson, you will be ready to perform rich, authentic, expansive, useful peer reviews for your classmates. This is one tool of several that you will use during the important process of revision. During revision, you will "re-v...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: pp. 293-318 and 337-356 Lesson Minimum of 5 sources Instructions This assignment is a full draft of your Argument Research Paper  download. This draft will demonstrate the argument and writing techniques studied in the course and will build upon the steps you have taken in all the previous weeks toward developing your Argument Research Paper. This draft is expected to meet all of the Argument Rese...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: pp. 402-422. Lesson Minimum of 1 source from the textbook Apply the following writing resources to your posts: Link (website): APA Citation and Writing  (Links to an external site.) Main Post: Share "Good to Great" Techniques You Picked up in Your Textbook Readings To begin, look over the readings (sample essays/articles) of the text. Read as many as you'd like; you do not need to choose j...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: pp. 157-173 Lesson Sample Presentation download Instructions For this assignment, complete the following: Review from the lesson and textbook readings the types of logical fallacies and examples. Locate three advertisements online that were posted no later than one year ago. The advertisements may be any of the following types, and they do not need to all be the same type: Advertiseme...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: pp. 469-494. Lesson Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook) Apply the following writing resources to your posts: Link (website): APA Citation and Writing  (Links to an external site.) Initial Post Instructions Main Post Paragraph 1: Evaluate an argumentative point Choose a reading from the assigned pages in your textbook and note how the author addresses an argumenta...