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Description This week you read two very different authors impressions of genre and what it means to identify and produce different kinds of texts. Consider the arguments of Donald Murray and Kerri closely as you complete this knowledge check reflection. As you finish your final essay assignment and our final course reflection, consider deeply how your own writing identity and understanding of genre has transformed this semester. As you draft this Knowledge Check, consider the genres you have practiced this semester and the ones youve historically worked in, specific to your own career or educational background. What work is left to do? Instructions You need to find examples from two different fields of academic arguments that strike you as being well written and effective. If possible, examine at least one from an online academic database so you can see what features periodical articles tend to offer. Then spend time looking at each of your academic articles and arguments closely and answering and reflect on the following questions: Do they exemplify the key features of academic arguments described in Chapter 17? How are these academic articles organized? What use do they make of visuals? What aspects of Dirk and Murray can you identify in each of these academic articles? Particularly, do you see distinguished genre features or the authors identity in these texts? You may find these articles using an online search engine or may utilize the databases from week three. Guidelines Reflection must meet a minimum of 500 words in length Original Title at the top of your reflection “Walker WK1 Reflection” is not original. Try and think outside of the box and pull something unique and individual from our weekly assigned readings Assignment will be Assessed using Knowledge Check Rubric

Description At this point in the writing process, you have proposed your advocacy topic to peers, received feedback, began preliminary research, annotated those sources, and now you should be ready to begin drafting! After reviewing the assignment sheet, you need to produce (1) full draft of both the Advocacy Text and Rhetorical Analysis Essay from the Advocacy Text and Rhetorical Analysis Assignment + Rubric. Your peers will respond to both your advocacy text and the analysis. So your peers can best respond to your draft, you will attach your drafts as attachments to this discussion board post, but you are expected to produce a 500-word Authors Note detailing where you are in the writing process. Initial Response Instructions Initial Response must include your draft in attachment form as well as a 500-word author’s note that describes where you are in the processes of writing. This post will address your audience (your peer responders and instructor directly). You may address any of the following questions in your author’s note in the body of the discussion post: What are you needing help with at this point in the writing process? What are you most concerned with? What are you most proud of at this point? Peer Response Instructions Peer responses will include attached annotations on your peer’s paper as well as a 35-minute video response explaining what revision you recommend. Peer response should explicitly address the authors note Submission Requirements Authors Note (500-words minimum) is included in the body of the post Attach both your Advocacy text and Rhetorical Analysis full drafts to your discussion board submission (there should be (2) attachments) For the advocacy text, since the text is not a traditional academic essay, you do not need to use MLA style: however, to be ethical and transparent, you must verbally or visually cite any sources you used. Cite them in a way that makes sense for the type of text youve created. For the Rhetorical Analysis, the essay and document should use MLA style and to reach the level of depth expected, the essay should be no shorter than about 1,000 words but may be longer

Description After completing some preliminary research for the Advocacy Text project, please submit annotations of the resources you plan to reference in this project. Although the number of sources you use in this project will vary based on what you need, you must turn in (4) sources annotated but you may turn in more. If less than 4 annotated sources are turned in, you will receive no credit for this assignment. Technical Requirements If youre annotating using pen and paper: Print or obtain a printed copy of all texts. Complete the meta-analysis/annotation process by hand using a dark-colored pen. Use a traditional scanner on a printer or other device to capture images of all pages or sections of all text as a single PDF, OR use a smartphone app for scanning such as CamScanner, TurboScan, or Scannable to capture images of all pages or sections of the texts as a single PDF. Email yourself the PDF for easy access and storage. From your preferred device, download the single PDF of the annotated text from your email and then upload it to the Writer Portrait text annotations area in Canvas. If youre annotating using a stylus on a tablet or other device: Open digital files or images of the texts in your preferred application on the tablet or other device. Complete the annotation process by hand using a stylus and any other relevant marking tools (such as a highlighting feature). Save your annotated files or images of all the texts as a single PDF. Upload the single PDF of the annotated text to the Summary Annotations Assignment area in Canvas.

Description This Knowledge Check Reflection activity was adapted from assignment on p. 349 of your textbook. Please read the below instructions and produce a brief argument. Over the course of week seven, you need to take a photo of (5) different visual arguments you encounter throughout your week. These visual arguments need to be taken from stimuli around you but 2 of the 5 can be screencaps of arguments you experience online, but no more. The goal is for you to notice visual arguments around you, I dont want to just see popular online visual arguments that you looked up inorganically. These 5 occurrences of visual rhetoric need to use both verbal and visual elements. Analyze each images argument first by pointing out the claim(s) the visual argument makes and then explain how you came to that conclusion. As you analyze each of these images if you need extra help, consider the questions about multimodal texts offered in Chapter 16 on pp. 388-390. Your analysis should explicitly answer the following questions for each of your 5 visual arguments: What is/are the claim(s) the visual argument makes? What elements of the text communicate the argument? Is this an explicit or implicit argument? Describe the context in which you came across this visual argument (i.e. I found this political bumper sticker when I was grocery shopping at my local target I found this advertisement in the magazine of my doctors office etc.) Guidelines Reflective exercise must meet a minimum of 500 words in length (total, not for each of the 5 visuals. Try and keep each visual analysis around 100-150 words) Original Title at the top of your reflection “Walker WK1 Reflection” is not original. Try and think outside of the box and pull something unique and individual from our weekly assigned readings Assignment will be Assessed using Knowledge Check Rubric Below