In 200 words or more respond to the following questions:  What is writing?

 
In 200 words or more respond to the following questions: 
What is writing?

 
In 200 words or more respond to the following questions: 
What is writing?
Describe your relationship with writing. What does writing do for you? What does it not do for you? 
If writing is a tool or vehicle for other purposes, what are the purposes you use writing for? Where does writing take you?
What anxieties or fears do you have when it comes to writing? How do you deal with those fears? 

What is your understanding of the final metaphor of disease in Louise Erdrich’s

What is your understanding of the final metaphor of disease in Louise Erdrich’s

What is your understanding of the final metaphor of disease in Louise Erdrich’s “Dear John
Wayne,” and the poem’s message/s about power? Discuss how Erdrich uses figures of speech—
especially metaphors, motifs and symbols—to communicate its message. Explain your answer
and support it by quoting and analyzing specific details/words from the poem.

This is your third written speech assignment for the semester. You will be comp

This is your third written speech assignment for the semester. You will be comp

This is your third written speech assignment for the semester. You will be completing the provided Informative Speech Worksheet, which is a Microsoft Word document. Once you complete the worksheet, you will reply to this discussion forum and attach the worksheet as either a Microsoft Word file or a .pdf file.
Read through the entire Informative Speech Worksheet:  Given that this is your third speech draft of the semester, I’ve provided a worksheet as well as detailed instructions. While this is considered a draft, it should be your best attempt at writing this speech. The more work you put into your speech draft, the more feedback your peers and me can provide to help you finalize your speech in preparation for recording it. Unlike the first two speech worksheets you’ve completed, this time you will use your feedback to make changes to your speech draft and you will submit an updated version next week – it will be the 2nd draft. 
2nd Draft (next week): Unlike the last two speech worksheets from modules 1 and 2, you will be expected to make revisions to your 1st draft and submit a 2nd draft of this worksheet/outline next week. However, if you do really well on this week’s worksheet and you need minimal or no revisions, I will excuse you from submitting a 2nd draft of your worksheet/outline next week. So, rather than having to make updates and edits and submit an assignment next week, you would have the week off from submitting an assignment and have an additional week to refine your speech and practice it. If you have done well enough on this speech worksheet/outline draft, I will notify you by leaving a comment on this assignment and let you know you are excused from submitting anything next week. If you are excused,  from submitting a 2nd draft next week, the grade column for next week’s assignment (assignment #7) will remain blank (represented with a dash). This will not impact your grade in any way. 
Informative Speech Worksheet

Part One: First Part of the Thesis Statement     Identify the topic. State the

Part One: First Part of the Thesis Statement
   
Identify the topic.
State the

Part One: First Part of the Thesis Statement
   
Identify the topic.
State the claim.
(evaluate effectiveness of article)
Combine the topic and claim to form the first part of the thesis statement.
 
[Insert text.]
[Insert text.]
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Part Two: Second Part of the Thesis Statement
   
One reason the claim is true (how/why or why not)
Another reason the claim is true (how/why or why not)
Another reason the claim is true (how/why or why not)
Combine the different reasons why the claim is true to form the second part of the thesis statement.
 
[Insert text.]
[Insert text.]
[Insert text.]
[Insert text.]
Part Three: Whole Thesis Statement
   
Compose the thesis statement.
 
[Insert text.]

Place-based Literacy Reflection (written in comparison-and-contrast mode) Direc

Place-based Literacy Reflection (written in comparison-and-contrast mode)
Direc

Place-based Literacy Reflection (written in comparison-and-contrast mode)
Directions: Consider two distinct places that have impacted your identity development. Create a narrative reflection  (300 words or more)  comparing and contrasting the culture, customs, rituals, expectations, or the language or dialect of these places, and how they influenced your literacy journey. Feel free to use other theoretical sources that support your narrative restorying of the places that impact your identity growth and development.  Draw on stories, memories, reflections, notes, images, conversations, and diaries as artifacts to construct your writing, seeking to expand on the process of your own identity formation and its spatial relationship to the places you’ve chosen to analyze.  Other Major Requirements:  
Word count: 300 or more
(if you have to cite a source) MLA formatting: MLA General FormatLinks to an external site. 
Title of reflection required 
Write in compare-and-contrast mode
Provide images or other multimodal expression of the places you’re comparing
Under all included media, provide a caption; create a table of figures for all media to be more accessible and let the reader know what the image’s context is  
Avoid second person “you/r” unless in quoted material  
Rubric: derived from: CommonFeedbackChart.docxLinks to an external site. 
You’ll be evaluated on:
Your creation of this discourse surrounding the places and personal reality through attention to history, personal and communal rituals, customs, traditions, languages, rhetorical arguments, and/or respective realities. 
The depth of your critical comparison and contrast in describing the places AND in describing how this place has shaped you, incorporating key class themes, terms, and perspectives that relate to your own experience, or relate to how you have re-experienced this discourse community. 
Your willingness to be honest and vulnerable with the reader, however you define those terms. In other words, your attempt to be personal, divulging, and expressive with your inner thoughts, feelings, and realizations. And trustworthy for your reader to believe.  
Your formal and academic writing style. Connect with your voice, but with professionalism, taking class readings as samples of such intellectual styles. 
Your careful organization of writing and media (with captions for accessibility) through development of points, ideas, emotions, experiences, and the like, so that your paper is a thoughtful and well-structured account of this discourse community and its effect on you, thus flowing from one idea to the next in a sequence which effectively guides the reader through your thought processes and evolution. 
Suggested (not required) content for your comparison and contrast: 
Places around your chosen place/space– how is an ecology of place formed? 
Multiple places and their connections/perspectives/themes 
A change of purpose for the space/reinterpretation of design 
Connecting buildings; abstract art- artifacts suggest certain activities 
One place everyone goes to—social place (locale); elements of time and culture 
Multiple activities; community-building  
Othered or outside spaces of socialization; using spaces for other purposes 
Historical changes; clashing cultural ideas about a place with (often unwanted) contemporary changes to the place. 
How the place could be better accessible through designs solved by technology 

Guidelines Directions: In this exercise, you will apply what you’ve learned abo

Guidelines
Directions:
In this exercise, you will apply what you’ve learned abo

Guidelines
Directions:
In this exercise, you will apply what you’ve learned about the elements of a story. 
1. Take a moment to READ/VIEW “The Story of an Hour” 
2. Define these elements of a story. Elements of A Story – VideoLinks to an external site.
3. Explain what they are/how they occur in “The Story of an Hour” [Cartoon Movie].”
Main characters
Setting 
Elements of plot
Theme
Symbols
Conflict