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ENG 105 Week 1 Discussions and Assignment GCU
Take a moment to reflect on past writing experiences from your academic, personal, or professional life. Answer the following questions as your initial post. Plan to have 150-200 words.
- What was writing like for you as a child or young adult? Do you recall any vivid writing experiences?
- How do you currently use writing in academic, personal, and professional experiences?
- How might writing be used in future academic, personal, and professional experiences?
Respond to your peers’ reflections about their own writing experiences, finding similarities and differences and considering the role of writing in your life now and in the future.
ENG 105 Topic 1 DQ 2
Read the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s page on ADHD; the link is provided below. Use the close reading techniques described in chapter 1 of the e-book. It may be helpful to print off the page and annotate the text. Then, summarize the website in 150-250 words. Your summary should be similar to the example provded in chapter 1of the textbook.
Your summary should answer at least three of the questions below:
- What key facts or details does the CDC share about ADHD?
- In addition to the facts, what impression does the CDC create about ADHD? In other words, how does it make readers feel or what does it make readers think about ADHD?
- What would motivate the CDC, which is a government institution, to post a page about ADHD?
- Why, in your view, is the Web page a good or bad method for the CDC to distribute information?
- How do you think the average reader would react to the CDC’s page about ADHD?
(Hint: Do not try to summarize every detail. Focus on the main points the page is trying to convey. It is helpful to think of the CDC’s page in terms of its sections, rather than its many facts.)
During the week, read and respond to your classmates’ summaries. Did you emphasize the same points in your summary that they did? Did you have the same impression about ADHD after you summarized it? Why or why not?
Link to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s page on ADHD:http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html
ENG 105 Topic 1 DQ 3
In the rhetorical analysis assignment, you will be expected to demonstrate an understanding that every text is created for a unique situation and audience. You will need to act on this by analyzing the decisions made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on their website about ADHD. This includes the persuasive appeals the CDC uses.
Aristotle believed that speakers and writers used three kinds of persuasive appeals. Logos is an appeal to the audience’s powers of reason or logic. Pathos is an appeal to emotions or senses. Ethos is the personal appeal, charisma, or credibility of the speaker or writer. These three appeals are known as the rhetorical triangle because all three sides work together to make a text effective or not.
In your own words, explain the concepts of pathos, logos, and ethos and why they are important appeals to recognize in a text. Next, use the CDC’s page about ADHD to analyze the ethos, logos, and pathos in the document.
Consider the following questions in your response:
- What do you think about the logic presented in the document?
- What do you think about its emotional appeal
- What about its appeal to authority or credibility?
- Does the CDC effectively present each of the rhetorical appeals? Why or why not?
Link to Centers of Disease Control’s website: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html
Topic 1 Quiz Part One
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This quiz covers material that is critical to your success in ENG-105. As you take the quiz, please write down vocabulary and concepts that seem unfamiliar. You will have a chance to refresh your understanding of all the information on this quiz throughout our first week of class. Please do not hesitate to ask about study materials for any information you need.
The quiz will be in two parts; part one will be responding to the questions found in the attached document, and part two will be a multiple choice section; you will be completing this section in the quiz forum (Go to the Task tab>>Quiz).
If you are unclear of these instructions, please contact your instructor.
ENG105.R.Module 1 Quiz, Part 1_6-23-14.docx
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