{"id":215061,"date":"2018-09-15T20:27:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/eng-200-week-2-topic-selection-drones-over-america\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:59:37","slug":"eng-200-week-2-topic-selection-drones-over-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eng-200-week-2-topic-selection-drones-over-america\/","title":{"rendered":"ENG 200 Week 2 Topic Selection (Drones Over America)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENG 200 Week 2 Topic Selection\t\u00a0\t\tSelecting an appropriate topic is the first step in creating an effective persuasive argument. This assignment is the basis for your Week 3 Thesis and Research Questions, Week 3 Organizing the Persuasive Essay, Week 4 Persuasive Essay, and Week 5 Persuasive Essay Presentation assignments.\t\tComplete\u00a0the\u00a0Topic Selection worksheet.\t\tSubmit\u00a0your worksheet to the Assignment Files tab.\t\tTopic Selection Worksheet\t\t\u00a0\t\tSelect\u00a0a topic for your Week 4 Persuasive Essay using the following steps:\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tReview\u00a0the College Specific Resources for Rhetoric and Research Learning Activity in Week 1.\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tClick\u00a0on any College\/School that interests you.\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tEach college page has a description of the importance of rhetoric and research to degree programs and professional careers within that College\/School.\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tThe topics for you to choose from are below the &#8220;Importance of Rhetoric and Research&#8221;\ufffd paragraph. Each topic has a link to an associated resource from the University Library to learn more about the topic. For example, the College of Humanities and Sciences has the topics &#8220;Synthetic Life&#8221;\ufffd, &#8220;Large Hadron Collider will Destroy Earth&#8221;\ufffd, &#8220;Climate Change&#8221;\ufffd, and many other topics to choose from.\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tChoose\u00a0one controversial topic. Your topic must be selected from the list of topics under one of the Colleges\/Schools. Please note that the &#8220;Accessibility&#8221;\ufffd area on the right is not one of the topics.\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tComplete\u00a0the worksheet below using your chosen topic.\t\t\u00a0\t\tWhat is your topic?\u00a0<Enter your topic here.\t\t\u00a0\t\tRelate\u00a0the key points of an effective research topic for the topic you chose for your Week 4 Persuasive Essay. Identify how your topic addresses the key points of an effective research paper topic. Refer to the \"Evaluating Possible Topics\"\ufffd section on p. 339 of Ch. 11 in\u00a0Elements of Argument. Your response to each question should be at least 50 words (for a total of at least 200 words).\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tHow is your topic interesting?\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t<Enter your response of at least 50 words here.\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tHow is your topic debatable?\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t<Enter your response of at least 50 words here.\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tHow is your topic not too broad and not too narrow?\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t<Enter your response of at least 50 words here.\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\tHow is your topic not too unconventional?\t\u00a0\t\t\u00a0\t\t<Enter your response of at least 50 words here.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENG 200 Week 2 Topic Selection \u00a0 Selecting an appropriate topic is the first step in creating an effective persuasive argument. This assignment is the basis for your Week 3 Thesis and Research Questions, Week 3 Organizing the Persuasive Essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eng-200-week-2-topic-selection-drones-over-america\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}