Introduction (Can also add content discussion here): 1. Reflect on your understa

Introduction (Can also add content discussion here):
1. Reflect on your understanding of genre and the use of rhetorical strategies from the beginning of the semester. What concluding statement might you make now?
a. Is there a skill you believe you improved over the course of the semester? Identify that skill and explain specifically how you have improved. Identify 2-3 benefits of
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2. Unit One – Summary/Profile/Review
Briefly explain the Summary/Profile/Review essay and its purpose. Briefly define and explain key characteristics of each genre.
Please discuss any challenges and what you learned from completing this essay.
What are other ways this genre of writing might be used?
3. Unit Two – Rhetorical analysis
What is the purpose of Rhetorical Analysis?
Did you find the Rhetorical Analysis essay challenging? Why?
What did you learn while writing this essay? How might you use Rhetorical Analysis in the future?
Briefly define the three Rhetorical Appeals or Proofs.
4. Unit Three – Personal Narrative
a. What challenge is there in responding personally in an essay?
Did you learn anything about yourself in this process?
c. What challenge is there in proposing a solution to a contemporary issue?
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d. Only comment on the topic that was your focus for the early part of the semester.
Comment on the excerpt from Jarod Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Right Now. Why is social media an ethical issue according to Lanier?
What is his primary claim in the excerpt? What are 1-2 proofs or secondary claims does he offer.
Reflect on a topic that you or a collaborative group highlighted during the presentations. Discuss what is interesting or important about the topic.
Discuss any new understandings gained from the content of readings, discussions, or individual/group presentations.
Write a summative statement about the semester.
Vocabulary: Primary claim, Secondary Claims, Introduction, Conclusion, Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Testimony, Situated Ethos, Argumentative Purpose, Assignment Prompt, Argument, MLA style,
Plagiarism, Rhetorical Appeals, Collaboration, Comma Splice, Run-on Sentence, Sentence Fragment, Rhetorical Proofs, Rhetorical Elements, Topic Sentences, Transitions, Syntactical (or syntax), Grammar, Citations, Summary, Textual Evidence