...Current Event/Rhetorical Précis Assignment AP English Language – Ferguson An important part of your success on the AP test — and in your life beyond high school — will be a broad knowledge of what is going on in the world, the kinds of social and political debates being had, and the ways people involved in those arguments make their cases successfully, and unsuccessfully. One of the three essays you will write on the AP exam will require you to provide evidence for a given argument from your own prior knowledge and understanding of national, world, and historical events. This assignment is designed to help you prepare for that. The assignment has two parts, both of which will be due each Monday at the beginning of class. In addition to the written assignment below, students will share their current events in their small groups, and at least one student from each group will present his/her rhetorical précis to the class each week. I will collect these each week, so be sure to have the thoroughly completed assignment with you each week. **You must attach the article to your assignment sheet** POINTS: 30 Directions -- The two parts described below must be typed, double space, using an ordinary font such as Times New Roman in 10 or 12 point font. -- Per MLA style, in the upper left hand corner of your page, please type: Your full name Suzy Smith My name Ferguson Course name and hour AP English Language, 3rd Hour Date September 9, 2013 ...
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...Qualities of a Good Essay Title that has depth, more than one meaning Introduction: lead-in that draws, notable strategy leading to thesis Thesis: an opinion that shares a worthy explication (an unfolding) • Avoid plot summary • Avoid reducing story to dusty platitude ("Crime doesn't pay", "Be kind to animals") • Underline thesis Body: logical support drawn from within the story • Strong topic sentences (underlined) without pronouns (preferably the first sentence) • Strong logical progression of support for thesis • Strong logic within paragraphs • Smooth transitions within and between paragraphs • Simple documentation of borrowed materials Conclusion: noticeable strategy that adds integrity to the essay Consider: 1. Title is first read 2. Lead-in is next 3. Conclusion is last read and probably most remembered The Qualities of a Good Essay • Even if the essay is about a personal experience, be sure there is a thesis statement (which may be implied). It should be: -declarative -simple, clear, and direct -one that requires explanation, illustration or proof -one that can be explained, illustrated or proven -one that makes a claim that not everyone would accept or automatically agree with. • Limit your essay (and your term paper) to something you can manage. Which of the following theses are too ambitious for a 2-page essay? - Jokes can reveal a great deal about culture. - Brazilians constantly communicate...
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...CASE STUDY Research Survey: There are different versions of the case study called a research survey, as well. Introduction: a very brief introduction summarizing the problem or need for the study, the background, the methodology of the present study, the findings, and what the findings mean. You should keep this very brief unless you are expected to have a more thorough "abstract" (an official long paragraph summarizing each of the sections of your paper) or "précis" (much the same as an abstract--but be sure to create a key topic sentence for each section and major subsection of your paper, and then repeat these topic sentences in your précis). This abstract or précis then might be either a part of your first paragraph in the paper, or a separate, longer, one- or two-paragraph section right after a brief introductory paragraph. Background: Provide the research background that prompted your research survey. Why is it good for the field to have your survey or study? If you are writing a full research paper, this is one of the points at which you should quote and/or paraphrase a number of up-to-date, relevant resources to help demonstrate the need for your study and the particular parameters you are using for your methodology. Especially with a number of resources named, this section sometimes can be quite lengthy. Client: a thorough profile—a description—of the client or the demographic profile. Present Study: Divide this into three subsections sub-subtitled as follows: ...
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...changed society? MLA: Super Size Me. Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Perf. Morgan S.. Disney, 2004. DVD. Type: Documentary Précis: Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock. The film documents this lifestyle's drastic effect on Spurlock's physical and psychological well-being, and explores the fast food industry's corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit. Morgan was to eat at McDonald’s three times a day, and consume each item on the menu at least once for 30 days. As a result Morgan gained 24½ lbs. (11.1 kg), a 13% body mass increase, a cholesterol level of 230, and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his liver. Morgan risked his life to expose the secrets of fast food companies, and in particular McDonald’s to help educate the public. Examination of Bias: In the documentary, multiple forms of bias were exhibited, clearly establishing an anti-fast food campaign. Had the documentary not be biased, Morgan would’ve made some kind of an effort to get a hold of information that presented both sides of the story. However, without exception every person interviewed in the documentary had said something along the lines of fast food is bad for you, that it is harmful to your health, and that it will eventually make you fat and/or obese. Maybe what he did find was actually is the truth, but it was presented in bias. The audience can tell that Morgan started from...
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...Assignment Rationale This assignment is designed to expose you to some basic practical applications of marketing concepts that you have learned in class. This will test your understanding of how to conduct a situation analysis and to develop a marketing plan. Assignment task As an established private publishing house in Vietnam, your company has come up with a magazine line that features articles for a specific group of readers. The Marketing Director is so passionate about the magazine and cannot wait to launch it. However, as a prudent Director, she needs to have a Marketing Plan. She has instructed you to come up with that Marketing Plan. Tips: Students are encouraged to read Appendix 1 of the prescribed textbook to get a feel of what Marketing Plan is about. 2 Assignment - MKT101 Principles of Marketing Suggested Content Page To assist you with the preparation of the plan, a suggested Contents Page for the plan appears hereunder. The analysis herein is not exhaustive. Students are encouraged to put into practice other analysis that they have learned. Please present the information in a report format. Be creative and consistent with information. Executive Summary Table of Contents 1.0! Situation Analysis ! ! 1.1.! Market Analysis !...
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...Intro=hook+precis 3 body paragraphs, one about each choice: 2 pieces of evidence Commentary linking choice to SOAP Final body paragraph ends with a concluding idea. Summative Rhetorical Analysis Outline Choice 1: Repetitions Choice 2: Different Perspectives Choice 3: Use of metaphors Evidence 1: The word “Breath”. Connection to SOAP: Purpose- the hardships of having to breathe and what they have to do just to breathe. Evidence 1: If you’re white, you may be thinking, “They certainly aren’t socially distant.”. Connection to SOAP: Purpose- the different lives you live depending on what color you are and how you are treated. Evidence 1: “Racism in America is like dust in the air”. It seems invisible....
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...Summer Musser Dr. Newsome Topics in Historiography Precis for Germany, “Domestic Crisis” and War in 1939 Richard Overly’s original assessment bases off Tim Mason’s thesis concluded that Germany did not have domestic crisis causing them to be propelled into war. Overly took Masons’s as a means to using it towards his advantage, but in this case, the opposition could easily be disproved. Tim Mason argued the complexity of the politics during the Third Reich had two key elements, one hand there was a push for rearmament to please the military hopefuls and on the other hand dissuade the masses that a rearmament was going to change the living standards that would plunge the economy into a deeper hole. On page 205 Mason debated that “Nazi Germany...
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...THE FAMILY The Consanguine Family (The First Stage of the Family) The Punaluan Family The Pairing Family The Monogamous Family The Iroquois Gens The Greek Gens [The Rise of Private Property] The Rise of the Athenian State The Gens and the State in Rome The Gens Among Celts and Germans The Formation of the State Among the Germans Barbarism and Civilization Appendix: A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage INTRODUCTION After Marx’s death, in rumaging through Marx’s manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx’s precis of Ancient Society – a book by progressive US scholar Lewis Henry Morgan and published in London 1877. The precis was written between 1880-81 and contained Marx’s numerous remarks on Morgan as well as passages from other sources. After reading the precis, Engels set out to write a special treatise – which he saw as fulfilling Marx’s will. Working on the book, he used Marx’s precis, and some of Morgan’s factual material and conclusions. He also made use of many and diverse data gleaned in his own studies of the history of Greece, Rome, Old Ireland, and the Ancient Germans. It would, of course, become The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State – the first edition of which was published October 1884 in Hottingen-Zurich. Engels wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State in just two months – beginning toward the end of March 1884 and completing it by the end of May. It focuses on early human history, following...
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...Jennifer Machuca Mrs.Cunningham AP Language and Composition 01 October 2015 Rhetorical Precis Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” selection (1994) argues that writing takes a process and the first step is to write a shitty first draft. Lamott accomplishes this by labeling “the fantasy of the uninitiated”is the thought people have when they read a great essay or book.Lamott uses this label in order to acknowledge that writing a great article or piece of literature is part of a process.Lamott is writing to those people who think authors are made to write a masterpiece in 3 hours or less. Summary Great final drafts are not easy, it takes a process. The main step to this is to create what...
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...Rhetorical Précis In Anne Lamott’s selection from “Bird by Bird” (1994), she claims that it is necessary to write “Shitty First Drafts” (1994) in order to complete “good second drafts and terrific third drafts”. Lamott uses examples of her own strategy, as well as the methods of other writers, to convince the reader that a good piece of work doesn’t usually come easily on the first attempt. In order to achieve the finely checked “dental draft”, writers should get ideas out on paper that can be checked a few times to eliminate the unnecessary elements they randomly started with. This article applies to just about anyone attempting to produce a good piece of written work. I find this article very persuasive because I can relate to the examples...
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...Précis: “Set In Our Ways” Part I: Summary In “Set In Our Ways,” Nikolas Westerhoff claims that throughout the world, as people reach adulthood, they’ll become resistant to change. At age 30, people who are usually open, aren’t that open anymore because of all the time they spend on work. When a family is made, people are no longer welcome to try new or different things because of responsibilities. Not even divorce or death of a loved one can result a change in the personality. People who want changes in their life fail to make the changes because they set up too many goals for themselves. Nikolas Westerhoff claims that people become resistant to change as they change from adolescents to adults. Part II: Discussion Key Words/ Phrases: Novelty, Personality, Transformation, Resistance, Age, Decrease, “New experiences” Topics/ Subjects: Freedom, Society, Openness, Responsibility, Change, Inspiration, Failure, Power Connection: Nikolas would connect the topic failure to his ideas about resistance to change by suggesting that people have tried to change, however because they have failed to change they now became resistant to change. Someone may have set up a goal and was hasty with it resulting a failure. Since they have failed to change, they become afraid which leads to resistance on changing. Questioning: * The text: According to the author, why do some people fail on making changes in their life? * Personal Reality: What was a change that you tried...
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...ID Instructions to the Candidates Pre Requirement for this task Student must review • Lesson materials provided in class Examples used in lessons. • Instructions to Students: • • • • Please complete assessment task within the time frame given You must attempt all the requirements that are addressed within this assessment task. Copying or any kind of cheating is absolutely not permitted, if someone is found cheating or copying, will be debarred from the assessment and a disciplinary proceeding would begin. This assessment covers the following Performance Criteria PC’s Covered: 1.1 – 1.6, 2.1 – 2.5, 3.1 – 3.6 BSBINN601_Lead and Manage Organisational Change_AT 1_Report.V2 Fast Track Couriers Pty Ltd - Precis You are an external change-management consultant. You have been contracted by Fast Track Courier Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based courier company in urgent need of increasing its market share and profitability. In order to satisfy that need, important changes must be made to the way Fast Tract conducts its business. Undoubtedly the changes will affect key segments of Fast Track’s workforce. Your job is to figure out how to implement the necessary changes in a way that will have the most positive impact possible on the morale of the workforce. Currently, Fair...
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...|Strength |Weakness | |One of the world's strongest brand names. |Cost of environmental hazards. | |Diverse and huge operations. |Legal issues. | |PETRONAS has grown to be an integrated international oil and gas |Employment scam. | |company with business interests in 50 countries. |Rising investment requirement. | |Sponsored education to Malaysian students. (PESP, PSIP) | | |Opportunity |Threats | |Increasing fuel/oil prices. |Government regulations. | |Increasing natural gas market. |High Competition. | |More oil well discoveries. |Long-term falls in domestic oil production. | |Expand export market. |Competition in regional...
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...Rhetorical Précis “The Death of the Moth” By Annie Dillard Annie Dillard in her essay, “The Death of the Moth” (1945), asserts that in order for her life to have meaning, she would have to do something that outlasted her life as a human being. Dillard supports her assertion by comparing her purpose in life to the one moth that did not turn to ash in the midst of the fire but flourished in spite of its last moments. The author’s purpose is to share an anecdote as to explain why she is the way she is in order to inspire another generation of writers. The author writes in an awestruck tone for the class she is speaking to so they may realize just how poetic life as a writer can be. “Black Men and Public Space” By Brent Staples Brent...
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...Jay Butler HIS 2800 Dr. Phipps Precis: the Art of Dying In “The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying,” Drew Gilpin Faust examines how the impact and meaning of the war’s death toll went beyond the numbers of Americans who died. Faust asserts that death’s significance for the Civil War generation changed dramatically from its previous prevailing assumptions about life’s proper end—about who should die, when and where, and under what circumstances (Faust, 4). Although mid-19th-century Americans endured a high rate of infant mortality, life expectancy ofmost individuals who had reached young adulthood survived into middle age. Yet, the Civil War took young, healthy men's lives rapidly, often instantly, and destroyed them with diseaseor injury. This marked a sharp and alarming departure from existing preconceptions about who should die. Both Civil War soldiers and civilians distinguished between what many referred to as “ordinary death,” as it had occurred in prewar years, from the manner and frequency of death in Civil War battlefields, hospitals, and camps, and from the war’s interruptions of civilian lives (Faust, 4).Laura2013-11-23T22:52:00Wordy and slightly confusing, consider rewording The perception of how life should end says a great deal about how an individual values life. Faust uses this perspective as an analytical tool in her discussion of the changing preconceptions of the 'Good Death,' a notion of concern across religious and secular milieus. Laura2013-11-23T22:54:00Great...
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