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Sample Rant Analysis

In Partners let’s view a sample rant and evaluate them based on the assignment criteria in Blackboard.

Questions:

  • What things did you observe during this rant?

  • Was this a good rant? What were some specific aspects that made this rant either successful or not successful?

  • Let’s also share some of these observations as a full class.

Ethan Hawke

Steps to Formulating an Issue-Based Question

  • Refine your topic.

  • Explain your interest in the topic.

  • Identify an issue.

  • Formulate your topic as a question.

  • Acknowledge you audience.

7:50 until about 9:30

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Objective

Steps to Identifying Issues

Now Get in Partners

1) Is it an actual issue or problem, or just a topic? If it’s a topic, how can you reframe it as a problem or issue?

2) Why do you care about this issue?

3) As a group, develop a list of questions you might have about this problem or issue?

4) Why do other people care about this issue or problem?

5) Can you narrow down the issue or problem?

  • Draw on your personal experience.

  • Identify what is open to dispute.

  • Resist binary thinking.

  • Build on and extend the ideas of others.

  • Read to discover a writer’s frame.

  • Consider the constraints of the situation.

(Textbook, 191.)

  • Get issues/problems approved

  • Sign up for rants

  • Look at example rants

  • Review in groups sample I-Search essays

What's Next?

  • Due: Rant (in class)

  • Due in Class: Draft of I-Search Essay

Now let's grade Sample I-Search Essays

Week 2: Day 2

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