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CM107 College Composition I

Unit 2 Assignment

A Unit 2 Assignment: Read Good Writers, Become a Better Writer

Before a personal trainer can develop a workout and nutrition plan, he or she will meet with the client, ask questions, and determine the client’s current strength and ability. Writing instructors use a similar process to help students diagnose their writing strengths and weaknesses and develop a training plan.

A diagnostic writer’s response is intended to help you and your professor learn more about your individual writing strengths and weaknesses. The feedback you will receive from your professor will help you think more about your writing and what you need to address to strengthen your personal, academic, and professional communication.

Unit 2 Assignment Instructions

Prepare: Select a journal article about an issue in your field of study from the Library. For help with finding an article to reading and analyze, review the Assignment guidelines.

Read the article and apply what you have learned about effective reading and writing to complete this Assignment.

Please review the following guide for help with picking an article to analyze and for help with the writing process.

Unit 2 Assignment Guide

Write: Analyze the article you have read, addressing the following requirements in 3 well-developed paragraphs:

In paragraph 1: Identify the author, title, and publication information for your article. Identify the article’s audience and purpose. Summarize the main points in the article in your own words.

In paragraph 2: Discuss what the author does to develop or support these main points. For example, personal experience, statistics, interviews, facts, and emotions are just a few of many different strategies authors use to support main ideas.

In paragraph 3: Analyze the effectiveness of the article. Identify one to two specific qualities of the article you read that you find to be effective. For example, an author may use statistics to effectively appeal to a professional audience. Or, an author may use a conversational tone to appeal to a novice audience.

Review a sample student Assignment.

Submit: Your submission should:

Be at least 3 well-developed paragraphs

Be approximately 1–2.5 pages, double spaced, in length

Although you will not be assessed on APA format, you can use the following 5-minute video from the Writing Center to format your paper:

APA Formatting Video

Find out how your instructor will grade your Unit 2 Assignment by reviewing the rubric.

Unit 2 Assignment Rubric

Submitting your Unit 2 Assignment:

Remember that you must use Word for this and all projects submitted for this class. When you are ready to submit, select the unit Dropbox. To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it.

 

CM107 College Composition I

Unit 4 Assignment

A Expressing Yourself Informally

For the Unit 4 Assignment, you will write a 1–1.5-page, double spaced, informal and personal blog post on an issue that is in some way relevant to your field of study and that you have personal experience with.

According to The Social Psychology Network, a blog, “short for "web log," is an online journal or record of sequential postings with news, commentary, or other material” (2017). Like an essay, a blog post establishes and develops a clear point about a topic or issue. Depending on the topic, audience, and purpose, a blog can be formal or informal. A blog written by an individual, for example, tends to be about his or her experience with the topic and is written in first person.

Imagine for this Assignment that you have created your own blog site and that you are writing a post for your blog site. This specific blog post should establish a clear main point about your chosen topic, use your personal experience to develop that main point, and establish a connection with your non-professional audience through showing them how your experience might be of value in helping them in some way.

Examples might include:

 If you are in the medical field and have experience with taking care of family members who are sick, you might write a blog post to other caretakers who are tending to family members, perhaps showing them a way they can avoid the stress that caretaking will create for them.

 If you are in the law enforcement field, though you may not have experience with being a police officer, you might use your experience as a parent to write to other parents about what they might do to help their children to not get involved in gangs, if you have any relevant experience with it or know people who have.

 If you are in the field of education, you may not be an experienced teacher with a degree, but you no doubt have experience either as a student or parent and could write a blog post to other first year college students, offering them a suggestion for how to manage their time or avoid procrastination on assignments.

 Generating Ideas for Your Blog Post Topic:

 Brainstorm your experiences: What personal experiences do you have with issues of ANY sort that are in some way related to your field of study?

 Talk with others: Classmates, friends and family, WC tutors, your instructors.

 Review this document for links to blogs and articles in your field of study. Writers often identify something they want to write about by responding to what others have written. You might read a blog post about the causes of homelessness in the US and then write your own blog post to people in your community suggesting a way they might help solve this problem in your community.

You will also be engaging in Discussion Board activities in Units 3 and 4 to help you in your writing process.

 In Unit 3 Discussion Board, you will post as many possible topic ideas as you want. Posting your possible topics, audience, and purpose allows you to get feedback from your instructor and classmates. This feedback will help you decide on a topic and make any necessary adjustments before you move to the drafting stage.

 In Unit 4 Discussion Board, you will post a draft of your blog post and a plan for revising this draft. The feedback you receive from your instructor and classmates will help you to revise and strengthen your blog post and prepare it for submission as your Unit 4 Assignment.

Be sure that your Unit 4 Assignment meets the following requirements:

Focuses on one specific point about the issue being written about

Uses personal experience to develop ideas; avoid research

Connects with the audience and establishes relevance of the topic to them

Demonstrates substantial revision of the Unit 4 Discussion Board post draft

Uses appropriate informal language, depending upon topic, audience, and purpose

Is organized into 3–5 well-developed paragraphs, 1–1.5 double-spaced pages

Utilizes transition devices to connect ideas

Applies Standard American English and avoids distracting grammar and punctuation errors

Demonstrates 6th Edition APA formatting, including title page

Cites any and all uses of source information (quotes, ideas, paraphrases) both in the references page and in text where the source is used

APA Formatting Video

Find out how your instructor will grade your Unit 4 Assignment by reviewing the rubric.

Review a sample student Assignment.

Submitting your Unit 4 Assignment:

Remember that you must use Word for this and all projects submitted for this class. When you are ready to submit, select the unit Dropbox. To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it.

 

CM107 College Composition I

Unit 6 Assignment

A Expressing Your Ideas for an Academic Audience and Plan for Additional Research

Apply what you have learned about formal language and academic writing to write your own 2- 2 ½ pages draft of an essay that analyzes a relevant change in your field of study. Your paper must analyze either what caused this relevant change or analyze what effect this change has had. It will also create a research plan for further revision, research, and development.

This Unit 6 Assignment essay draft will then be revised to include source information and become your Unit 8 Assignment.

To identify a relevant change in your field of study, consider the following options:

Brainstorm a list of changes in your field of which you are already aware

Talk to others, including friends, family members, classmates, and professors

Do a quick Google search to create a list of changes in the field

Identify topic ideas by reading an article from this list of articles

For a more detailed description of each option, consult this document.

As you identify a change to discuss, be careful with your choice of topic to ensure that you are actually writing about a specific change. Diabetes itself, for example, is not a change. The skyrocketing number of children with diabetes in the last decade is a change. Technology is too broad a topic that includes countless changes and would not work for this Assignment; however, limiting the issue of technology to a specific technological change, like the increased use of cloud computing, will work for this Assignment. Be sure also that the change has occurred and that it is not a change you would like to see happen.

To help you succeed on this Assignment, you will post your prewriting work about the topic that you choose for your essay to the Unit 5 Discussion Board.

 

You will then use feedback you received on your topic idea to make necessary revisions and then post a rough draft of your essay to the Unit 6 Discussion Board. The feedback you receive on your rough draft will then help you to revise your draft for submission as the Unit 6 Assignment.

You must also include an additional 1 paragraph research plan paragraph at the end of your paper as part of the Unit 6 Assignment. This plan identifies what you specifically think you need to do in Units 7–8 to research your topic, support your ideas, and strengthen your draft.

 Be sure your Unit 6 Assignment meets the following requirements:

Includes 4–5 fully developed paragraphs

Focuses on one specific, relevant change that has already occurred

Analyzes either cause or effect and does not take a position or make a recommendation

Develops the main point through your own thoughts and observations, not through research

Includes an additional research plan

Applies APA 6th Edition format

Avoids the use of outside sources at this point. However, if you use any source in any way in this draft, you must cite the source both in a references page and in text, whether you are quoting or paraphrasing

Utilize the following 5-minute video from the Writing Center to format the title page of your paper:

APA Formatting Video

Find out how your instructor will grade your Unit 6 Assignment by reviewing the rubric.

Review a sample student Assignment.

Submitting your Unit 6 Assignment:

Remember that you must use Word for this and all projects submitted for this class. When you are ready to submit, select the unit Dropbox. To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it.

 

CM107 College Composition I

Unit 8 Assignment

A Final Draft

Apply what you have learned about locating, paraphrasing, incorporating, and citing relevant and reliable secondary source information to complete the following Unit 8 Assignment:

By now, you have submitted your Unit 6 Assignment. That draft of an essay analyzes a relevant change in your field of study. You also have received feedback on this essay draft from your instructor and classmates.

You will now use this feedback to substantially revise your Unit 6 academic essay draft to submit as your Unit 8 Assignment.

Your goal is to strengthen the Unit 6 Assignment draft, improve the introduction and conclusion and organization of the draft, as well as to incorporate and cite three to four relevant and reliable secondary sources into the paper using APA format so that you support and further develop your ideas and claims.

Here are the steps to success on the Unit 8 Assignment:

In Unit 7, learn about reliable and relevant sources and identify three to four sources you can use to strengthen and develop the ideas in your draft. Your Unit 7 Discussion Board will allow you to post a revised paragraph from your draft where you add information from one of the sources you have selected. Then you can work on the other paragraphs in your draft independently to strengthen them.

In Unit 8, learn about APA citations and how to paraphrase your sources and cite them. In the Unit 8 Discussion Board, you will post another paragraph from your Unit 6 Assignment that you revise to include sources and citations, as well as a practice reference list of all your sources you plan to use in the paper.

Then, once you receive Discussion Board feedback on your paragraphs and citations, you will revise your Unit 6 Assignment draft fully, to include and cite all source information used, and this will become your Unit 8 Assignment. It is the final version of the paper you began in Units 5 and 6.

Be sure that your Unit 8 Assignment submission:

Demonstrates that you have substantially revised your Unit 6 Assignment.

Establishes and develops a clear main point about your topic that is original and insightful.

Analyzes either the cause or effect of the change you are addressing, without taking a position or writing to persuade.

Organizes ideas logically and demonstrates paragraph unity and connection of ideas through the use of transition devices.

Demonstrates that you have strengthened, supported, and developed your ideas through the incorporation of three to four relevant and reliable secondary sources from either the Library or published on the Web.

Demonstrates that you can paraphrase relevant and reliable source information rather than relying solely on quotes from the sources.

Applies 6th Edition APA formatting to give credit to all source information and ideas, whether you quote, paraphrase, or summarize these sources.

Utilizes APA style to format the paper, including the title page, body pages, margins, in-text citations, and references page citations.

Follows the conventions of Standard American English.

Is 5–6 paragraphs or 2–2.5 pages long, excluding title page and references page.

Utilize the following 5-minute video from the Writing Center to format the title page of your paper:

 

APA Formatting Video

Review a sample student Assignment.

Review the Assignment rubric.

Submitting your Unit 8 Assignment:

Remember that you must use Word for this and all projects submitted for this class. When you are ready to submit, select the unit Dropbox. To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it.

Turnitin Analysis

A special feature is available to help you with reviewing your Unit 8 Assignment to help prevent plagiarism. When you submit your Assignment to the Unit 8 Dropbox, your Assignment will automatically be analyzed by the plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin. Soon after you submit your Assignment, you will be able to view the Turnitin Originality Report. Originality Reports provide a summary of matching or highly similar text found in a submitted paper. When an Originality Report is available for viewing, an icon will appear in the report column of the Assignment Inbox. Originality Reports are only available in the inbox. For this reason, you will need to download the report prior to the grading of the Unit 8 Assignment. To do this, click on the print icon at the bottom of the Originality Report. This will prepare a readable, PDF version of the Originality Report that you can save to your computer.

 

CM107 College Composition I

Unit 9 Assignment

A Expressing Your Ideas for a Professional Audience

Identify a problem or issue in your chosen career field.

Imagine you are now working in your dream job. You have, however, noticed a problem in the organization, business, or nonprofit you work for and want to use your problem-solving skills to help address the issue. Locate one source which addresses this problem and could be integrated into your professional memo to support your ideas.

Write a 3–4-paragraph memo to a decision maker within this organization, addressing the problem and the solution you propose. Integrate one source which addresses this problem and could be integrated into your professional memo to support your ideas.

Be sure to:

Summarize the problem or issue.

Integrate paraphrased information from a related source to support your ideas.

Give credit to the author of the source.

Identify how this issue or problem is relevant to your specific audience.

Make a recommendation for what your audience should do with this information. For help with generating ideas for your Unit 9 Assignment, review the Unit 9 Assignment guidelines.

Find out how your instructor will grade your Unit 9 Assignment by reviewing the rubric.

Review a sample student Assignment.

Submitting your Unit 9 Assignment:

Remember that you must use Word for this and all projects submitted for this class. When you are ready to submit, select the unit Dropbox. To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it.