{"id":215066,"date":"2018-09-15T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/eng-200-week-1-assessing-arguments\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:58:11","slug":"eng-200-week-1-assessing-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eng-200-week-1-assessing-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"ENG 200 Week 1 Assessing Arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENG 200 Week 1 Assessing Arguments\tUnderstanding the elements of an argument is the first step toward creating your own. In this assignment, you will review three essays, each demonstrating a unique style of presenting an argument, and choose one essay to evaluate using strategies outlined in your text. Evaluating these arguments will prepare you to write effective persuasive arguments.\tReview\u00a0the following essays in Ch. 1 of\u00a0Elements of Argument. After accessing the ebook, enter the page number given for each article to access them. The place to enter the page number is at the bottom left of the screen once the book has been accessed.\t\t\tPage 15: Aristotelian: &#8220;I am Adam Lanza&#8217;s Mother&#8221;\ufffd by Liz Long\t\t\tPage 22: Rogerian: &#8220;The &#8220;\ufffdUnnatural&#8217; Ashley Treatment Can Be Right for Profoundly Disabled Children&#8221;\ufffd by Peter Singer\t\t\tPage 31: Toulmin: &#8220;Latest 3-D Films Add Dimension, Not Appeal&#8221;\ufffd by Jonathan Winchell\tSelect\u00a0one of the three argument essays listed above to evaluate.\tUse\u00a0the strategies on pp. 53-54 in Ch. 2 of\u00a0Elements of Argument\u00a0for your evaluation.\tWrite\u00a0an assessment of the essay. Your assessment must be at least 350 words total. Include the following in your assessment:\t\t\tIdentify the essay and the author.\t\t\tIdentify the author&#8217;s thesis.\t\t\tExplain whether the organization of the article was effective in making its argument.\t\t\tDescribe the methods the author used to argue a point, persuade, mislead, or sway the reader.\t\t\tDescribe how the author&#8217;s awareness of and response to other arguments were demonstrated in the essay.\t\t\tDescribe the level of timeliness, relevance, credibility of the author and publication presented in the essay.\t\t\tImplement one quote from each essay to illustrate your evaluation.\tFormat\u00a0your assessment according to appropriate\u00a0course-level APA guidelines.\u00a0Title and reference pages are not necessary for this assignment.\tThe\u00a0Assessing Arguments Grading Guide\u00a0will be used to grade your assignment.\tSubmit\u00a0your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENG 200 Week 1 Assessing Arguments Understanding the elements of an argument is the first step toward creating your own. In this assignment, you will review three essays, each demonstrating a unique style of presenting an argument, and choose one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eng-200-week-1-assessing-arguments\/\" 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-215066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215066","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=215066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}