A. Final Essay, B. Peer Review Form & C. Exit Survey

A. "Take Home" FINAL (Persuasive) ESSAY Directions,
B. Workshop Peer Review Form & C. WR 122 Exit Learning Outcomes Survey
WR 122 Handout - Prof. C. Agatucci - Winter 2008

Deadlines: See current online WR 122 Course Plan
URL: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr122/courseplan.htm
Grading Weights: See WR 122 Syllabus: Course Grading
URL: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr122/syllabus.htm

Final Topic: Recommended Practices for Analyzing and Writing Arguments
1. Length of Final Essay: 4 - to - 5 word processed, double-spaced pages (or about 1000 words), including separate Works Cited page
2. Aim of Argument: Persuade/Convince. Audience: Future WR 122 Students
3. Genre & Content Requirements: Write an argument essay with a thesis, and use your best essay writing skills. Recommend at least 3 practices (approaches, techniques) for Analyzing and Writing Essays, to include at least one Analysis practice and at least one Writing practice. Each recommended practice must be supported with persuasive reasons and evidence, including specific examples. Examples may be drawn from Crusius and Channell, specific AofA argument essays, your own work, course handouts, etc. Examples should NOT all come from the same source. Be sure to explain why you believe each recommended practice is valuable.
4. Cite your sources and avoid plagiarism.

B. WORKSHOP PEER REVIEW FORM
(to be completed on two other students' preliminary drafts of
"Take-Home" Final Persuasive Essay)

Peer Reviewer:_____________________________________
WR 122, Prof. C. Agatucci
Workshop Date: _______________________

Student Author:_________________________________________

Essay Title:____________________________________________

1. Identify the thesis/major claims (i.e. argument analysis & writing practices recommended):

2. Which of the student author’s recommendations did you find most persuasive? And briefly explain why.

3. Which of the student author’s recommendations did you find least persuasive? And briefly explain why.

C. WR 122 Exit Learning Outcomes Survey: Self-Evaluation

Rate your skills in each of the following WR 122 learning outcomes, using a 5-point scale:
5 = Excellent . . . . 1 = Poor. Feel free to make comments.

___Outcome 1. Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of analytical and argumentative essay patterns, such as evaluation of a published argument, comparative analysis of sources, persuasion, argumentation synthesis.

___Outcome 2. Demonstrate the ability to use several quotations from either published sources or interviews, which are (1) integrated into the student's own writing (at both the paragraph and the sentence level), and (2) correctly documented according to some currently accepted practice.

___Outcome 3: Demonstrate the ability to adopt a persona or tone that serves one's persuasive purposes in written argument, and to identify and anticipate audience considerations (e.g. readers' knowledge, assumptions, beliefs/values, attitudes, needs) in the selection of evidence and presentation of the writer's argument.

___Outcome 4: Summarize published arguments and analyze components of written arguments, such as claim, support (including the distinction between observation and inference, fact and opinion), warrants, assumptions, logic, rebuttals, credibility, psychological appeals, connotation, tone, slanted language, irony.

___Outcome 5: Use writing to provide a peer with alternative viewpoints and suggestions for revising and editing.

___Outcome 6: Adopt a writing process to incorporate the special concerns of arguments such as analyzing opposing viewpoints, synthesizing personal opinions with written sources, thesis formation, organization, drafting, revising, editing and proofreading.

___Outcome 7: Analyze and evaluate one's own argument, identifying strengths, weaknesses and potential biases, assumptions--and suggest some means of improving his or her argumentative practice.

Also rate yourself in each of the following Prerequisite Skills:

___(a) Write essays that use a thesis to establish control over content; supply relevant and adequate supporting details drawn from observation, personal experience and/or responsive reading; employ the organizational strategies of effective beginnings, transitions, and endings; and conform to standard edited English.

___(b) Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of expository essay patterns, such as definition, classification, analysis, problem-solution, and comparison-contrast.

___(c) Employ one or more sources responsibly (without plagiarizing) in a summary or another writing assignment.

___(d) Demonstrate, in an essay, a sustained style employing rhetorically effective tone, persona, diction, idiom, and syntax.

___(e) Use critical reading and writing to analyze and synthesize ideas in an academic writing sample, identifying rhetorical patterns, major assertions, and supporting details.

___(f) Complete appropriate written (and oral) critical peer reviews of other students' essay drafts, including suggestions for revision and editing.

___(g) Complete written reviews (formal or informal) of the student's own writing strengths and weaknesses, including effective self-prescriptions for improvement.

___(h) Demonstrate, monitor, and articulate the complete idiosyncratic process that the individual writer uses to complete an essay, including such steps as invention, thesis formation, organization, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading

___(i) Demonstrate an awareness of a variety of purposes and audiences.