FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II
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INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITING
INSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield
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FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II&INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITINGINSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield
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English 1010 James Maxfield, Instructor Exercise #19—Freewriting (in class) to be developed into thesis and introduction. Use these 3 exercises as the basis for your Cause & Effect Essay #5 Instructions: Using the freewriting technique in Ch. 2 of the Strategy book (p. 14-15), choose one of the following current "hot" topics and write freely without forethought or attempting to organize your thoughts for 10-15 minutes or until you fill at least one full page. Set your writing aside for a day. Then review it and find a central ideas that you can develop into a thesis statement. Then develop the thesis statement into an introduction for a possible essay that you can use for one of our later essay exercises and possibly to submit as a newspaper editorial. These exercises can be tailored to serve as one of your remaining essays: compare and contrast, cause and effect, or you might try using an extended analogy. Topics or Questions (choose one):--Who should pay the cost of the Iraq War, that is the original military action? --Who should pay the cost of rebuilding Iraq? --Who should pay the additional expenses of the new U. S. Cabinet office and supporting service groups for Homeland Security, extra airport security, and extra fire and police protection? --Who should pay the costs of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan or wherever it operates? --Should the American families of killed servicemen and women be compensated, especially those killed by terrorists or fanatics during reconstruction of a country—by whom? --Many companies cannot afford the new high costs of insurance directly resulting from the huge losses of 9/11 and terrorism. Who should pay the costs? --Should the various airlines be compensated for their huge losses because people are more afraid to fly—if you think so, why? And who should compensate them? How? If you don’t like these, submit another topic for my approval.Write Topic Chosen here:
(Use freewriting, brainstorming, or clustering exercises to generate ideas for your main arguments and supporting ideas and examples.) |
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