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For your public relations writing assignment you’ll be creating a plan and products to support an advocacy campaign for a cause, group, or initiative of your choice.  If you’re interested in tackling a more government agency (new program announcement, policy change, etc.) or business-focused topic (like a product rollout or something similar), please email me to make sure you have a plan to fulfill the assignment requirements. Review introduction to PR and building campaign slide decks. All products should be well-organized and should have a professional appearing presentation. Again, you’ll be creating a strategic plan to support your work. Your strategic plan should be about a page or so and include: The overall goal of the campaign A quick statement of the broad goal you want to achieve. How will you “frame” the issue. Who your audience(s) will be and what you know about them Tell me about the audiences you’ll be targeting. Be specific. Don’t just say “reporters” but maybe “newspaper and magazine reporters who cover climate change and environmental issues.” What products you’ll be using Describe the products you’re creating. You only have to create the products listed below but outline them and explain what purpose they serve and what audience you’re targeting with them. Risks and Challenges How will your opponents respond? What reservations will your customers or advocates have? How will you address them? You’ll also be producing several products to support your campaign. These should include: A press release that provides a relevant news hook and information (one page or so). Your press release should be in strict AP style. Your press release should include: An SEO-friendly, descriptive headline Contact information Release information (immediate or embargoed) A dateline (just the date of the release) A strong lead that gets straight to the point Quote(s) from key principal(s) “Boilerplate” information about your organization A fact sheet (a page or two) with background information for reporters who want to get up to speed on your topic. Your fact sheet should be written in AP style. This can overlap with your release a little, but the goal is to provide reporters with the information, facts, and statistics they’ll need to support an article. Bullet points and grouping information into topics is acceptable and can be easier to use. Talking Points (one page or so) to help people in your organization speak about the issue. These are for internal use only and should give people in your organization sample ways of talking about and framing the issue when speaking to reporters or the public. Organize talking points by topic and anticipate tough questions or opposition arguments that your surrogates may face.

Read the assignment for Paper #2 below,  and explain how some of your beliefs developed because of Inductive or Deductive Reasoning.  Comment on other people’s posts and ideas.  This is not a draft, but a discussion to help you generate some meaningful ideas and see what other people might be doing in their papers.     English 1C Paper #2   Examining Your Beliefs/Opinions/Truths using Inductive and Deductive Reasoning Overview: You will examine one or more of your beliefs or those of others based on inductive or deductive reasoning.  You will break these down and research the points in detail to determine if these beliefs are or are not true.  You will arrive at a deeper understanding of how inductive and deductive reasoning works through this project. Getting Started: To find your topic, begin by listing some beliefs you have that exist because of your own observations about the world (inductive reasoning) and beliefs someone else told you were true the you have applied in your life (deductive reasoning). You may have learned these beliefs from your own experiences (inductive) or from parents or relatives, or the media (deductive). These could be beliefs about love, friends, cars, college, careers, yourself, other people, sports, music, relationships, bad habits, people’s character, things you are afraid of, things you love or hate. . . but they must have come from Inductive Reasoning, which is when specific examples lead to a general belief or “truth,” or Deductive Reasoning, which starts with a general belief or “truth” that is applied to specific examples.  You could also use the beliefs of someone else in this paper; if you have a friend or relative who has beliefs you are not sure are correct, you can challenge these beliefs in your paper as well. Overview: You are going to select one or more of these beliefs, examine them by breaking them down, and research these claims and analyse them to see if they are true or if they are examples of faulty inductive or deductive reasoning.   The Process: The pages in our textbook on 303-306 and 309-311 cover Induction and Deduction; use this information in your research, and quote from them in the paper.  Most of Chapter One could also be helpful.  You will examine how you developed these beliefs.  Did your reasons or evidence come from your own experiences, others’ experiences or beliefs, or somewhere else? Let’s say you believe a certain restaurant is pretty bad because the first time you went there you had bad service, and your friend told you he had a bad meal there.  So you think the place is a terrible restaurant, which is Inductive Reasoning. You might want to choose important beliefs that you have questioned or wondered about, and determine through this analysis and research whether they are, in fact, true.  Research and Analysis: Do some research to see if your claims about the restaurant that led to the belief are, in fact, valid.  Perhaps you will go to Yelp and read some reviews; you can talk to your friend who used to work there, and you see that you ordered the only items on the  found them to be very positive.  You now can’t wait for the restaurant to open again after this quarantine period is over so you can try the food. Evaluating your research: How have these beliefs worked for you in your life?  Have they helped you?  Held you back?  Prevented you from learning something? You can do more than one belief in the paper; make sure to organize so the reader can follow it clearly. Format:  The introduction should give background information about the beliefs, draw the reader in, be specific, and include a thesis that breaks the parts of the paper down (the topic, the subtopics, and the purpose).  Body paragraphs should be specific and follow the ideas above; develop using specifics, and quote from the book and any other sources you want as support or evidence.  Do a bit of research when examining the parts of your belief!  Is your belief (or beliefs) valid or true?  Include a brief analysis of Inductive and Deductive reasoning and how these can be flawed, if that is relevant.  The conclusion should be your arrival, but you can have important moments throughout the paper The link below briefly but accurately explains how we develop beliefs using inductive and deductive reasoning; you can quote from this as you construct your draft. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/engcomp1-wmopen/chapter/text-inductive-reasoning/ (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.) List the sources you used at the end of the paper, using MLA Style.  Write at least two but no more than three pages.  ______________________________________________________________________________ POST BELOW:  What are some ideas you have about this assignment and how it relates to you?  What are you thinking of writing about?  Will you choose one example of inductive or deductive or more than one?  Will you talk about both types?  Give people feedback about their ideas, and think about what you ultimately want to use as your topic and if you want to explore more than one belief?

Theological Literacy evaluates the unique contribution that theology makes in the particular political, cultural, or social question at hand. Each paper should answer the following: In Question answer format: Summary/history of the issue from the text or course discussion Articulation of how the issue relates to one of the general education outcomes What might we learn by connecting those issues to the chosen outcome  Please use one or both of the two available articles, and reference them at the end, thank you. Pleas

Can you just make up something please? Thank you. For your first essay, you are to write a personal narrative. A narrative is a first-person account of an experience in your life. This will help your instructor get to know you better. Everyone has a story. What is your story? What is an event in your life that holds significance to you? Why is it significant? Why is it meaningful? In writing your narrative you should communicate to your reader the meaning and significance of your story.

Go Danteworlds ( http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/ )and read to find an area, and discuss one of Dante’s circles of the Inferno or Purgatorio. Discuss briefly (one or two sentences) what kind of sin is there and what is the punishment or penance. Is it an appropriate setup? Do you feel it is too harsh or too lenient, and explain why? How would you change it to fit your answer, and fit the modern time? (Now, I understand that people can get creative, so please make sure to keep your language proper, and your responses relevant. Also, keep your replies respectful.

Essay #3: The American Dream    Length: a minimum of 5 pages of text, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 point font   Assignment: “The American Dream” is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative, as well as an upward social mobility for families and children. In other words, we all have an equal chance for success regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. Do you believe this ideal still exists in this country? Did it ever truly exist in the first place? Write a research essay in which you examine the validity of the American Dream. Is the American Dream a reality, a falsehood, or something in between? Explain your reasoning using at least 3 OUTSIDE SOURCES to back up your argument.    Expectations: Your essay will consist of the following elements: an original title, an introduction that defines and provides context for your topic, a clear thesis statement (this should state whether or not you believe the American Dream really exists), body paragraphs that provide specific examples to support your thesis and engage with outside sources, a conclusion paragraph to sum up your thoughts on the subject matter.   Advice: Start by clearly defining the traditional ideal of the American Dream before you begin to critique and/or defend it. Think about what might complicate this notion of “equal opportunity.” Is race/gender a factor? Is socioeconomic status a factor? Also think about how this issue may have changed over time. Was there ever a time when the American Dream was a reality, or has it always been somewhat of a fantasy? Carefully organize your essay around the various aspects of the American Dream you may or may not find problematic.    Purpose: Demonstrate your ability to support a thesis statement and use outside sources in a clear, well-organized essay.   Audience and Style: Your audience is educated adults. Avoid slang, jargon, or overly informal writing.

Poetry Assignment: Close Reading   For this assignment, you will be using “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti. You will choose a section of the poem to do a close reading. The chosen section needs to be 14 lines MINIMUM. You can do more than 14 lines, but do not do the entire poem—it is too big to do a close reading in the amount of words I am limiting you to. You can do several sections of the poem if you want.   This past few weeks, we learned about “translating” a poem; now, I want you to practice that and move toward analyzing the poem. You will be using this same process in your official poem explication assignment.   I know poems are tricky, but everyone has the ability to understand a poem. Here are the steps you should take for this assignment.   Follow the link below to learn  about closely reading a poem:   Purdue OWL // Poetry: Close Reading : there is also a slideshow at the bottom of this page. This slideshow is very helpful for breaking down the process step-by-step.   So, to review: A close reading is the careful, sustained analysis of any text that focuses on significant details or patterns and that typically examines some aspect of the text’s form, craft, meaning, etc.   Now, in your textbook, read pages 518-520 to learn about rhyme scheme. ?       If you are still confused about this, there is a worksheet in the drive that explains it more (titled “rhyme scheme worksheet”).   Re-read and TRANSLATE a 14-line section of “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti. If you don’t understand the steps I gave you in class (watch the class recordings available to you), use the ones that Purdue OWL gives you: Read the poem slowly Read it at least twice Read it aloud Annotate/define important words, images, phrases, and sections Remember that you need to first understand the literal words before moving on to thinking about the text figuratively. Once you understand the literal words of the poem, now move on to writing down your close reading. This all comes from the Purdue OWL PPT I point out in #1. Understand the poem’s project/goal Subject of the poem? Speaker? Larger context? Genre/mode?  Examine form and structure: how is the poem formed or put together? What does the form contribute to the content? Look closely at each line of the poem and begin analyzing Line length and variation / line breaks / enjambed vs. end-stopped lines Look for places where form and line change Look closely at language the poet uses — remember that language and figurative language work to alter the layers and associations working in a text. Diction? Tone or mood? Images that stand out? Figurative language? The job of the poet is to “make it new” Does the poet combine unexpected elements, like form and subject? Does s/he employ an unusual perspective? How does the poet’s language make something new or surprising? Make a claim about how the poem works or what the poet is doing (your thesis). What is the overall effect of the whole poem’s crafting, and the elements that are part of the craft? Where does the poem take us (emotionally, intellectually, narratively, etc.)? Now that you have a claim (thesis), write a short essay around that claim in which you prove it using evidence from the poems. NOTE: Check the “Quote Integration” PDF in G drive to see how you quote AND cite a poem (it is different than fiction).   Requirements: ?       MLA Format ?       Thesis-driven ?       300-500 words ?       Due by November 6th before midnight in the Daily Grade folder drop box.

Critically analyze “A Raisin in the Sun”. Explain how A Raisin in the Sun is a modern tragedy. Consider the setting of the story and the historical context in which the characters are living. Look at how the characters try to succeed and persevere, does each one exhibit a tragic flaw of sorts? Is this Walter Lee’s story or something larger? Try to use terminology relating to the Tragedy form made popular with the ancient Greek plays.

You will develop a seven-paragraph causal analysis essay where you will discuss the food industry and marketing as a social issue. You will also learn how to enter an academic or professional conversation by summarizing and paraphrasing an author’s main points and using evidence from sources to support your claims.   Think about different ways you can discuss the food industry. You might discuss the organic food industry and agriculture. What effect does the food industry’s cheap prices and high demand have on agriculture?   You might discuss the fast food industry marketing towards certain socioeconomic groups. How does the food industry target communities or schools, and what is the cause-effect relationship here?  Should the fast food industry take some responsibility for the role they play in health problems in our nation’s children?  How the industry might directly be causing obesity? Whatever you decide, you must have five main points (5 supporting paragraphs) to support your argument.   You must also decide whether you will focus on cause or effect and stick with one pattern for developing your argument. At least one reputable, reliable source should be used to support your argument and set up the conversation. A source can be used in support of your own ideas, or as a launching point for your disagreement. You can use other sources, but they should be from an accredited, peer reviewed journal and not a random website or blog online. You can also use a food industry documentary as a source. You must include direct quotes, summary or paraphrase, in-text citations, and a Works Cited page listing the primary text and any other resources.  MLA format is required.   You should also strive to maintain a balance between your ideas and your source material. Integrate sources, but lead with your own ideas. Use signal phrases to distinguish your writing from your sources, and follow all information with an in-text citation. Third person point of view is required.   Some basic rules: The essay must have a thesis statement that states your stance on the topic and establishes the cause and effect relationship between two things. Your thesis cannot be a question. You can ask a question to prompt a thesis, but you must make an original and arguable claim on the topic. The introduction must introduce the central issue you are discussing You must have at least one source to support your argument, and the source must come from an accredited, academic journal that has been peer reviewed, or the source must be from a reputable website like the CDC or the World Health Organization. Source material should be introduced before paraphrasing, summarizing, or quoting, including the author’s name and the title of the work.  All source material must be attributed to the author using signal phrases and in-text citations. You should have 5 supporting paragraphs with topic sentences that introduce the main idea in each paragraph. The topic sentence cannot be a quote or someone else’s ideas. The essay should be written in third person point of view and present verb tense.  When paraphrasing and summarizing another person’s ideas from an article or book, present verb tense should always be used. MLA format, in-text citations, and a Works Cited page are required.   Basic grammar—check for basic grammatical errors like fragments, run-ons, subject/verb agreement, verb tense consistency, and comma placement. I attached the files she gave us to use as sources.   Previous Next

Before you start in on this discussion, be sure that you’ve read the Postman and Hofstadter pieces.( I already uploaded them in the files) watched the After Truth documentary. the links :, https://digitalcampus-swankmp-net.library.collin.edu/collincounty301757/play/9dc70820aec48222?referrer=direct my student acc: atruong15 pass: 6503Bakersfield For this discussion, identify what you think to be the most concerning or problematic issue that needs to be addressed in the mass information ecosystem — that could be the news, social media, how human beings deal with the news, etc. I’m giving you the option and liberty to interpret this somewhat broadly. But you should, given the limited space here, pick just 1 issue. Your task is to: Define or explain the issue you chose. Tell us what it is about — what is the problem? What about this issue makes it hard to address? If it were simple, presumably it would not be the biggest or most problematic issue, right? So, why is it such a big deal? How, then, would you suggest we confront that issue? Suggest a possible solution, or at least something that might help. IF YOU STILL NEED MORE CONTENT: You might give some thought to the legality of your solution, or the barriers that could prevent it from working (and ways you can sidestep those concerns).