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Research Project Objectives:
- Identify rhetorical relationships between assertion and evidence, patterns of organization, and genre conventions, paying special attention to how these features function for different audiences and situations.
- Explain how texts are shaped by particular cultural, historical, and social contexts.
- Apply recursive writing process for academic writing to produce a sequence of college-level argumentative and persuasive research essays.
- Apply prewriting, planning, drafting, and revising strategies in college-level writing.
- Draft and revise a thesis that originates in student-developed “research questions” that respond to an ongoing academic or professional discussion.
- Write for a variety of rhetorical situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, organization, and/or structure.
- Use strategies such as interpretation, synthesis, response, and critique to compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with those from appropriate sources.
- Locate, evaluate, and incorporate primary and secondary research materials with specific audience and purpose in mind.
- Give and act on productive feedback to works in progress through engagement in the collaborative and social aspects of writing.
The Question:
You will develop your own research question, but it has to meet some requirements. Your question must be:
- Grounded in the theme of the course. You have eight themes to choose from: Education; Law and Government; Human Nature and the Mind; Language and Rhetoric; The Arts; Science and Nature; Ethics and Empathy.
- An argumentative question based in facts and reasoning. This is not a report; it is you presenting an original argument about a topic.
- Your own work. You cannot choose a question that belongs to someone else: that includes your classmates, family members, friends, random websites on the internet, etc.
- Designed so that you can use the readings from Reading the World.
- Weighty enough that you’ll need 2000-2500 words of rhetorical real estate to get through it.
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