The focus is on rhetorical decision-making, but in the context of decision-making within the course (as opposed to context that widens to include future disciplines or job settings).\u00a0 An additional focus on student \u201cgrowth\u201d or \u201cimpact on skills learned\u201d is possible.<\/p>\n
Final exam assignment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This semester, we structured our class around the “rhetorical situation,” examining the following concepts: rhetor, purpose \/ exigence \/ need, audience (intended and actual), contexts and constraints, medium and genre, and rhetorical stance.<\/em><\/p>\n As you go back over all the writing you did in this class (and possibly in other classes), reflect on the kinds<\/u> of decisions you made and on how<\/u> you made them. Develop a 3-4 page explanation of how writing decisions are made, using the concepts listed above, illustrating this decision-making with your experiences of writing in this class and\/or other classes.<\/em>\u00a0 Your essay should have a thesis, an engaging introduction, an argument that leads to a conclusion, and documentation from the papers you have completed this semester (meaning, you need to quote yourself). Use the standard MLA format for formal papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The focus is on rhetorical decision-making, but in the context of decision-making within the course (as opposed to context that widens to include future disciplines or job settings).\u00a0 An additional focus on student \u201cgrowth\u201d or \u201cimpact on skills learned\u201d is possible. Final exam assignment This semester, we structured our class around the “rhetorical situation,” examining … Continue reading “Common Final Exam”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1769","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}