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JOEY NICOLETTI CWP 101: COLLEGE WRITING 1 FORMAL ASSIGNMENT 2: YOU DO YOU ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION For your second formal writing assignment, you will write about an event that impacted your educational journey. This essay will be an analysis of that event, what it says about you, and what you learned from the event. It can be any event that influenced your educational journey, and is a short moment in time. Perhaps, for instance, you will write about reading Anne Lamott’s essay “Shitty First Drafts” for the first time and discovering just how much you enjoy writing. Or maybe you will reflect on the time you auditioned for the school play in your senior year of high school, and even though you didn’t get the part you wanted, you discovered that you adore singing and acting, and you are now a theatre major at SUNY Buffalo State. Poor topic choice: “This is the story of how I played soccer for four years.” Use these criteria for choosing your event: · As with all of our assigned class readings, your analysis must have a point: a thesis that you can prove and develop. · Your event should take place in a moment, not a long period of time. · Keep your audience in mind: choose an event you can share with the entire class. This assignment will build on the analytical and argumentative skills you have been developing throughout the semester. Composing blogposts and discussing important themes in our assigned class readings have made you zealous, ruminative readers and insightful responders. You are learning not just to read to comprehend as a believer, but also to question as a doubter, to analyze, and to apply the ideas of the readings in your lives within and outside the walls (or screens) of your classrooms. Use those same critical thinking skills to analyze your own experiences through your writing. Writing this essay will also teach you several important skills that you will use through this (and other) course(s): · The drafting and revising process. · Creating a thesis and structuring an argument. · Providing supporting evidence. · Creating paragraphs and the general structure of an essay. · Performing research and analysis. It can be difficult to construct an essay that can stand on its own and make sense to an audience that does not have you there to explain, clarify, or develop your ideas. To this end, as we have discussed in class, unpacking as you move in: striking a balance of idea, evidence, and elaboration enables writers to present their ideas for an audience at their most cogent. Remember, to write well for any audience, especially on the college/university level, is to read extraordinarily well, often, and eclectically, because you don’t just see possible ways of presenting your ideas for an audience, you also experience them, as all writers and communicators of note have their own ways of establishing tight connections with their audiences. Be sure that you give yourself enough time to do this as well as you possibly can. As you begin the thinking and writing process, answering the following questions will help you start and complete the assignment: · Who am I, what are my characteristics, and how have I become that person? · What event has impacted my educational journey most significantly? · What did I learn from this particular event? · Where did it take place? · When did it happen? · How does it inform who I am today and · who I’d like to become? · Why might others benefit from learning about this? Then forecast the significance of your analysis: · How can I modify my thoughts and behaviors to become more of what I want to be? · How can I continue to develop according to my plans and goals? You will do a great deal of writing and reflecting, but in the final essay you submit, you need to emphasize how you have been influenced by the event you have identified. You will need to analyze the event that had a part in creating or “constructing” you as a learner; as a person pursuing a college/university education. Whatever event you write about, be sure to compose an analysis that moves your audience at least as much as yourself. ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS · Assignment length: 1,000-1,250 words, excluding citations, headings and titles. · Be sure to include a heading (I.E., Your name, the course title, the instructor’s/my name, and the submission date, aligned to the left) on the first page of the assignment. · Be sure to include a title—something other than “Formal Assignment 2” “Assignment 2,” or “You Do You.” The title must be appropriate for the words that follow and centered on its own line. · Skip one line and start the essay. · Have multiple paragraphs, including an introduction and a conclusion. · Be sure to include a Works Cited/Citations/References page if necessary. · Use 10-12 sized point, no higher or lower. · Double-space your work. · Assignment due date: Saturday, November 7th, 2020, at 11:59 pm. · This assignment will be submitted via Blackboard, in the dropbox titled, Formal Assignment 2: You Do You, which is located in the Content section of our class Blackboard site. · Attach a copy of at least one peer evaluation rubric to the end of your essay: they must be one file. · When you submit the assignment, title the file using this formula: Your last name_ The essay’s title. Example: Nicoletti_Buffalo State of Mind · Save and submit your assignment in .doc or .docx file format in the dropbox titled, Formal Assignment 2: You Do You Dropbox, which is located in the Content section of our class Blackboard site. · You will receive additional comments from me and complete a final revised version of this assignment for your portfolio due on during our CEP session. PEER WORKSHOP PROCEEDURE Unlike our first peer workshop session, you will decide who you will work with for this assignment. Instead of having a critique session during class time, you will find someone to work with outside of our Monday class sessions. You can work with anyone you want, as long as: 1. He or she is enrolled in our section of CWP 101. 2. You fill out an evaluation rubric for every person who fills out one for you. 3. You need at least one evaluation rubric filled out by someone in our section of CWP 101. 4. In case you’re not sure where to begin finding a critique partner, use the Email tab on our class Blackboard site. To help you get started in the peer review process and to be sure you have everything you need for this assignment, I have included a copy of the evaluation rubric on the third page of this document. As always, should you have any questions concerns, or issues, please don’t hesitate to HMU, as I would be delighted to help you in any possible way that I can. Until such time, I look forward to reading your work. Have good thesis, introductions, topic sentences, body paragraphs, and conclusions molding. Onward! Author’s Name:Evaluator’s Name: Formal Writing Assignment 2: You Do You Evaluation Rubric Requirement Impressive work Meets requirement Needs work The essay is compiled of 1,000-1,250 words, excluding citations, headings, and titles. The essay uses 10-12 sized point The essay is double-spaced. The essay has a title other than “Formal Writing Assignment 2,” “Assignment 2,” or “You Do You” and is appropriate for the words that follow it. The essay topic is appropriate for the purposes and requirements of the assignment. The essay focuses on an event: on a short moment in time. The essay’s thesis statement is clear and precise. The topic sentences for each paragraph are clear and precise. The essay is well-organized: every individual paragraph develops their topic sentences with clarity, focus, and sticks to one idea at a time. Transitions between paragraphs are clear, precise, and show progression of the argument. The essay has no grammatical, spelling, and mechanical errors. MLA, CMS, or APA citing style format is used consistently and correctly. The essay is directed to clear, specific audience. The author’s name is on digital materials. The assignment is saved in .doc or .docx file format. List 2 additional revision suggestions that will help make this draft of the assignment stronger. Please be specific and list them on this sheet of paper.