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Finding Common Ground: St. Martin's Guide Ch. 5 and 27. They Say, I Say Ch. 1-3

This document provides instructions for Assignment #3 in an ENG 1013 Fall 2013 course. Students are asked to write an essay analyzing two or more essays that take differing positions on an issue, with the goal of understanding areas of agreement and the differences in values or perspectives that have caused disagreement. The assignment is designed to practice skills needed for exams. Topics are due on certain dates, with rough and second drafts also due. The final draft is due on a specified date. Related readings and learning outcomes are listed. Students must choose a debate topic from options provided, which include archived debates from Intelligence Squared and case files from the textbook publisher's website.

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Finding Common Ground: St. Martin's Guide Ch. 5 and 27. They Say, I Say Ch. 1-3

This document provides instructions for Assignment #3 in an ENG 1013 Fall 2013 course. Students are asked to write an essay analyzing two or more essays that take differing positions on an issue, with the goal of understanding areas of agreement and the differences in values or perspectives that have caused disagreement. The assignment is designed to practice skills needed for exams. Topics are due on certain dates, with rough and second drafts also due. The final draft is due on a specified date. Related readings and learning outcomes are listed. Students must choose a debate topic from options provided, which include archived debates from Intelligence Squared and case files from the textbook publisher's website.

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Assignment #3

ENG 1013, Fall


2013

Finding Common Ground

Task Summary

Write an essay analyzing two or more essays that take different


positions on an issue. Your purpose is to analyze the essays to
understand their authors areas of agreement and to identify the
differences in values, perspectives, or priorities that have caused
the disagreement.
Note: This is your best chance to practice at home, with feedback,
the same moves you needed for the diagnostic exam and will
need for the post-test exam at the end of the term. Aside from
being take-home and group-oriented and on a debate of your own
choosing, this essay assignment is just like the diagnostic exam
you already took.
Topic Due:______ __Rough Draft Due:________ Second Draft
Due:_________
Length: 900-1500 words (about four to five pages)
Final Draft Due Date: __________________

Related
Readings
Supported
Outcomes

St. Martins Guide Ch. 5 and 27.


They Say, I Say Ch. 1-3.
EEOs: 1 (understand writing processes), 2 (audience and
purpose), 3 (modes of expression), 4 (groups), 5 (technical
proficiency).
1013: 1 (develop effective positionality in writing), 2 (develop an
effective process), 3 (effectively use genre), 4 (integration of
sources), 6 (grammatical/convention).

Topic Selection

For your topics, you have a large menu of options, but must
confine your choice to that list of options. Choose your debate
from the options below:

You may pick an online debate from the Intelligence


Squared archives
(http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates). If
you choose one of these debates, and youd like to see a
transcript (a text version of what everyone said), open up
the page for that debate and look for the link to the
transcript on the right side of that screen.
You may also use the United Kingdoms Intelligence
Squared debate site, though it doesnt always have
transcripts. Its here: http://www.intelligencesquared.com/a-

decade-of-debate/

You may use the textbook publishers Web site, which has a
folder of debate case files on several popular topics. The
St. Martins Guide casebooks are located here:
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/theguide9e/default.asp#58
8124__602775__ Note that some of the links for some of the
topics may not work. If they do not, talk to your instructor
about another topic or about possible replacements for the
missing source.

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