Module 2 SLP – EVIDENCE ANALYSIS AND KEY FUNCTIONS OF ACADEMIC WRITING

 ADVOCACY SPEECHES If you are recording your speech, please note that there are additional audience requirements for this speech that are detailed on page 6 of this document. Through limited research, you will develop your position supporting or opposing a particular topic.  This speech is persuasive in design; and, although there may be some informative…

  “Rip Van Winkle” and “Young Goodman Brown” are told as third-person narratives, not as first-person narratives. The difference is that a third-person narrative presents the characters to us in the words of a narrator rather than from the words of the characters themselves. The story contains descriptions such as “Rip Van Winkle did this”…

 Discuss and critique the production of Death of a Salesman you watched this week.  Were the actors effective in their roles?  Were the design elements appropriate to the production (address scenery, costumes, lights, and sound).  Why is this play an important piece of American Theatre history? 

    In our Lesson, you have two readings in preparation for this cultural discussion. One is a fact sheet about the German school system. The other is a subjective opinion piece written by a German who teaches in the American university system. Read the fact sheet (“The German School System”) before you read the subjective opinion piece…

  This week, we are delving into how authors use their literary works as social commentary. This can be a general commentary related to what is going on in society such as in Frankenstein; as a means to enact change such as in The Jungle; or as telling of an experience, such as in Persepolis. …

  Watch either The Great Gatsby or The Color Purple and relate it to “The Way to Wealth” The American Dream lecture in Week 1 points out that Poor Richard’s Almanac was an annual publication that included calendar lists, home recipes, weather forecasts, etc. What made Franklin’s almanac unlike other almanacs was the inclusion of…