Persuasive Research Essay Assignment

The full criteria for the Persuasive Research essay are online at this link.

The components, due dates and weighting are listed in the course syllabus.

Short Analysis Essay

Here is the link to the assignment sheet for the short Analysis Essay due in class on course week 5.

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Seminar Presentation Assignment

Use the comments section in this post to sign yourself for a seminar presentation date (your name and your chosen date.). The assignment details are at this link. Two presentations per seminar date; first come, first served!

If you left a date but are not on this schedule, then you have chosen a date already full, & must chose a different date.

Available dates (two presentations per week:)

• January 21st: --
• Yaniv Talmor, Ann Chan
• January 28th
• Omar Sharif
• February 4th
• Kathy Henderson, Victor Mung
• February 11th
• March 4th:
• Jing (Jean)Ye, Kathryn Capule
• March 11th
• March 18th
• Drew McInnes, Ajeet Johal
• March 25th
• Sonny Johal
• April 1st
• April 8th
• April 15th

An exemplary version of the essay portion of the assignment from a previous term, with a mid-level grade, is available online here.

Diagnostic Essay Assignment

For our second class, this coming Thursday, come with a two-hundred-word essay, double-spaced, that gives your diagnostic analysis of the article entitled "The Appeal of the Androgynous Man" on pages 25 to 28 of our Strategies for Successful Writing course text.

Read the article using all of the strategies detailed in opening lecture. Then write your own essay that diagnoses the argument that the article makes.

Here are two examples from popular culture which give a context to the representation of masculinity that "Appeal of the Androgynous Man" portrays.

Example One, (British): "Shut up, Steve." (overdubbed American voices.)
Example Two, (American): "Where does he train to take a beating like that?"

This assignment has no independent grading weight, but is part of course participation.

Lecture Slides

Note the link to the weekly course lecture slides on the permament links list here to the right.