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Assignment 3: Research Paper Purpose The purposes of this assignment are for you to...
Instructions Now that you have collected several different representation about your subject, and developed and understanding about the strategies used to produce these representations, you are now responsible for developing an informed argument that states the strategies that you would use to represent your subject for a specific audience. Your research paper will include
Background Information You will want to provide enough background information about your subject for an audience who might not have any previous exposure to this subject. In your presentation of the background information you may choose to include your personal experience with the subject or you may choose to practice the appearance of objectivity. The background information should be detailed, but it should cover no more than 15-20% of the essay. In other words, you will have to choose the information that you think is most relevant for understanding the important issues of your subject. Multiple Representations All of you have chosen subject that have been represented in various ways. Identify some of the siginificant representations and explain the strategies that the writer uses to create a certain effect. The evidence for this section will come from the specific texts or data collection (see Annotated Bibliography) that you have chosen to analyze. Take into consideration,
Informed Argument Most of you are experienced with writing an argumentative essay in which you develop one argument and support it with evidence. You WILL NOT be doing that for this essay. Instead, you will be making an argument about the best choices (or strategies) to make for writing about your subject for a specific audience. Although you are only writing about how you would write an argumentative essay; this is an argumentative essay because you will be expected to provide evidence about an anticipated audience audience and about your subject that demonstrates that the choices that you would make for representing your subject to a specific audience are the most viable. In order to situate your representation for a specific audience, you will have to choose a specific publication; then charaterize the audience of this publication and the audience's values. Do not think about your argument as a discussion that is separate from the discussion about multiple representations; instead think about your argument as a response to these other representations. As a result, you will use details from previous representations (see Annotated Bibliography) to support your argument. Do not forget to include in-text citations and a Works Cited (both in APA format). Visuals Since this project is about representation, you will need to include two visual to represent your subject. When including visuals, consider the following...
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