English 112

Response Paper Two Assignment


Due: Monday, March 5th


 

For this response paper, you will need to formulate an argument in response to active reading. Please choose one of the following essays for this response:

"Targeting Big Tobacco"

"Before Spring Break, the Anorexic Challenge"

"Growing Pains"

"Terri Schiavo's affliction"

"Stirring the Pot"

In this two- to three-page paper you will need to introduce the article you will be discussing, you will need to offer a brief summary of the main points of that essay, and you will need to propose your own “argumentative response” to the article. Be sure to scrutinize the location in which the article was originally published and examine the authorial appeals (pathos, logos, and ethos). Since this is a brief paper, integrate these comments, succintly, into the body of your paper.

 

Keep in mind that you are writing for a specific audience and that you will need to develop an arguable claim in your paper. Also, keep in mind that this is a brief response paper and that its form is “closed,” meaning that you need to clearly present your claim in your first paragraph.

 

A successful response paper will:

• Contain few to no instances of the “Eight Grammar No-no’s” that I discussed in class.

• Follow the format guidelines listed in your syllabus and mentioned by me in class.

• Present a clear position, a response to a particular article. (You can use “I.”)

• Mention the author’s name, the article’s title, the publication date, and context in the first paragraph.

• Follow a multi-paragraph structure.

• Avoid erratic flow and will follow a logical argument-development sequence.

• Culminate with a restatement of main ideas and a presentation of a succinct, developed assertion.

• Feature a thesis, at the onset and developed through the paper, that conforms to the guidelines described in basic fashion on page 37 of EW.

 

Remember, you are responding to an author’s presentation of the issue and his or her writing, so keep your response focused largely on that. If you aim to tackle the issue, keep in mind the brevity of this paper and keep your comments succinct. So, here, be sure to consider the article, primarily, and the issue, secondarily.