ENGL 102 Week 1 Assignment Help | Southwestern College

ENGL 102  Week 1 Assignment Help | Southwestern College

Assignment 1.3: Critical Essay 1: Personal Response — Draft and Collaborative Review (Deliverable: Word document)

Description

In this assignment, you will follow the steps of the writing process to write a draft of a personal response analytical essay about the two essays you have been reading analytically: “Our Cell Phones, Our Selves” by Christine Rosen and “Disconnected Urbanism” by Paul Goldberger. You will then exchange your draft with your assigned partner and review each other’s work. This will help you develop your analytical writing skills and your revision skills.  You will use your partner's comments to revise your final draft for submission in Unit 2.

Instructions

Writing

1.  Write a 750-word (minimum) personal response essay addressing the ideas and claims in Rosen’s and Goldberger’s essays about cell phones and manners in the digital age. Do you find any aspects of the essays irritating or interesting? Are there claims that you find funny or disappointing? To what extent do you agree with the claims in the essays? Your primary purpose is to present significant insights about the perspectives of the texts. As you write, follow the strategies for writing a personal response analysis essay described on pp. 77-80 and do the following:

·         Introduce the topics to be analyzed accurately and early in your essay.

·         Develop a thesis that states how you will examine and respond to specific ideas.

·         Organize your analytical personal response in a way that it will be easy for the audience to follow.

·         Assist the audience by using words, phrases, and sentences that show relationships and shifts.

·         State the significance of your response at the place in the essay where it will be most effective.

Peer Review

2.  When you complete your essay as instructed, exchange your work with your assigned partner using the "Assignment 1.3 Peer Review Discussion Board" forum (click on the discussion link below these instructions).

Revising Checklist

3.  Click the link below to download a checklist that will guide you as you review your partner’s work.

4.  Review your partner’s draft and make comments and suggestions using Microsoft Word’s Track Changes and Comments features. Use the questions in the revising checklist to guide your review.

5.  Save your work and return your review to your partner as an attachment to a discussion post.

6.  Review the comments your partner made on your draft, but do not delete them. You may make additional comments in response to your partner’s review.

7.  Save and submit your work (with your partner’s comments) to your instructor by clicking on the blue title of this assignment above.

Writing Requirements

·         Your essay must be a minimum of 750 words.

·         Your document must be double-spaced using a 12-point font with 1-inch margins and include your name at the top of the first page.

·         Proofread your document to eliminate mechanical and grammatical errors.

·         Use APA formatting when citing the essays.

 

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