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Argumentative Dynamics and Academic Research at Work – a Real Issue

1000-1500+ words

A Real Scenario – planned argument

Issue – Audience – Images/Charts – Genre – Argument

Speaker—Message—-Audience

Design a very real scenario where you are writing for a selected and specific audience on an individual issue/problem within your field. Argumentative/persuasion skills will be at work. The planned dynamics of your specified audience, your discipline, and your selected research will be examined. Requires students to identify key resources, areas of investigation, standards of evidence, and/or genre expectations for writing in their major field and/or professional community.

To be sure, this issue should be a very real design in the actual world concerning an issue that matters. You are the presenter with a professional proposal.

Academic Research at Work – prepare a 1000-1500-word paper that surveys at least ten sources that are varied and appropriate research on this very real issue in your field of study. Sources may include reference works, electronic sources, databases, journals, associations, general sources, video sources and any other valuable primary or secondary resources you discover.

As you search out the resources, an Annotated Bibliography will indicate the availability and value of each source. Indicate which sources might be considered as inappropriate or unreliable. Note elements of quality? Which sources are more acceptable/effective in this case? Why? Why not?

You may wish to briefly interview a professional in your field and enjoy a discussion of your perceptions. Yet stay with the dynamics of your persona, field, audience, and issue.

This project/essay will require these components:

1) Paper centered on at least ten varied sources (1000-1500+ words – 70% of grade), sources must be varied within quality and types – includes integration of images and text for effect;

2) Reflective Journal on the presentation plan (300+ words – 10% of grade); and

3) Annotated Bibliography (10% of grade);

4) Power Point Presentation (250+ words – MLA/APA format – 10% of grade) – either an opening, in-process, or concluding element.

Extra materials needed:

– Free Search with 40 links. This could either be video, wikipedia, paper, article. etc. With some notes on some of them. You’ll be using at least 10 sources for the paper.

– 1st draft (2-3 pages)