Writing Skills II, Homework for Week 8

For homework:
1. If you received feedback on an essay from me today, carefully read through my comments, especially in light of the high-scoring essay distributed in class today and the corrections we made to specific sentences from student work. How can you improve the essay you wrote in terms of its organization, content (including specific examples and range of detail), language (lexical and sentential level), and analysis? Just because I didn't correct something on your paper, doesn't mean that it is in its ideal form. Also consider how you could have used the techniques of direct quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing in your analysis.
2. Read through and annotate the essay on pgs. 80-81 of the reader, completing the questions accompanying it. Sketch an outline for a rhetorical analysis of the essay (make sure that you are organizing it around the thesis and main claims and assessing how that thesis and those claims are defended) and time yourself for how long it takes you to complete both the reading and the outline (definitely needs to be under 30 minutes).
3. Read through pgs. 82-84 in the reader.
4. Have a look at the sentences that I distributed to you on the handout for editing and bring your suggestions to next class.
5. The following search engines can be useful in terms of researching potential jobs (including internships):
http://www.indeed.de
http://www.indeed.com
http://www.indeed.co.uk 

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