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Unit 1: Writing Paragraphs

Assignment 1: Paragraphs

"MLA Sample Paper." Purdue OWL, 2016, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_paper.html. Accessed 13 Aug. 2020.
"APA Sample Paper." Purdue OWL, 2019, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_sample_paper.html. Accessed 13 Aug. 2020.

Unit 2: Writing to an Audience: Discussion Forum

"What Is a Rhetorical Analysis?" YouTube, uploaded by Kyle Stedman, 16 Jan. 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s0LqAdqkV0.
"Rhetorical Analysis: Beyond Ethos, Pathos, and Logos." YouTube, uploaded by Tony DeFilippo, 24 Apr. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpygoiMpHA.

Unit 3: Writing a Summary

Macleod, Shaun. "How to Write a Summary." YouTube, uploaded by Smrt English, 15 Nov. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGWO1ldEhtQ.
"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." Purdue Online Writing Lab, https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html. Accessed 4 June 2020.
"General APA Format." Purdue Online Writing Lab, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html. Accessed 4 June 2020.

Assignment 2: Discussion Forum

"Topic Sentences." Purdue OWL, owl.purdue.edu/engagement/ged_preparation/part_1_lessons_1_4/index.html. Accessed 13 Aug. 2020.

Assignment 4

Instructions
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 14 Aug. 2020.
"Using Citation Generators Responsibly." Purdue Online Writing Lab, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/using_citation_machines_responsibly.html. Accessed 11 June 2020.
A. Personal Essay Topics
Twain, Mark. (1883). "Two Ways of Seeing a River" (from Life on the Mississippi). http://mrbazilewich.weebly.com/uploads/6/2/0/4/6204690/twain_river.pdf.

This is an example of a personal descriptive essay.
MacLeod, Alistair. "The Boat." The Massachusetts Review, vol. 9, no. 2, Spring 1968, pp. 247–66. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25087710.

This is an example of a personal descriptive essay.
B. Expository Essay Topics
Macleod, Shaun. "Comparison / Contrast Essays." YouTube, uploaded by Smrt English, 15 Nov. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMSeg1s7uc.

Watch this video if you choose one of the comparison-contrast essay topics.
Macleod, Shaun. "Classification Essay or Paragraph." YouTube, uploaded by Smrt English, 15 Nov. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm3ObvB0mLE.

Watch this video if you choose one of the classification-division essay topics.
Macleod, Shaun. "Process Paragraph and Essay." YouTube, uploaded by Smrt English, 15 Nov. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=32R30EYIW-U.

Watch this video if you choose one of the directional process essay topics.

Unit 4: Writing an Essay and Incorporating Resesarch

"Writing an Effective Thesis Statement." YouTube, uploaded by tulsaccprof, 15 Dec. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sx42_C10zw.
"Thesis Statements: Four Steps to a Great Essay | 60second Recap." YouTube, uploaded by 60second Recap, 4 Nov. 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R0ivCaLtnY.
"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." Purdue Online Writing Lab, https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html. Accessed 4 June 2020.
"General APA Format." Purdue Online Writing Lab, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html. Accessed 4 June 2020.
Mount Royal University Library. "MLA Style for Academic Work (2019-2020)." library.mtroyal.ca/ld.php?content_id=34474117. Accessed 4 June 2020.
Mount Royal University Student Learning Services and START Lab. "MLA Paper Formatting 2019-2020." library.mtroyal.ca/ld.php?content_id=34487454. Accessed 4 June 2020.
Mount Royal University Library. "APA Guide to Referencing (Winter 2020)." library.mtroyal.ca/ld.php?content_id=34474092. Accessed 4 June 2020.
Mount Royal University Library. "APA Guide to Formatting a Paper (Winter 2020)." library.mtroyal.ca/ld.php?content_id=34487459. Accessed 4 June 2020.
"Blending Quotations." YouTube, uploaded by grapemanca, 29 Apr. 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLNlyLala-k.
Plotnick, Jerry. "Paraphrase and Summary." University of Toronto Writing Advice, advice.writing.utoronto.ca/using-sources/paraphrase/. Accessed 4 June 2020.
"MLA Style Introduction." Purdue Online Writing Lab, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_style_introduction.html. Accessed 4 June 2020.
"APA Style Introduction." Purdue Online Writing Lab, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html. Accessed 4 June 2020.

Assignment 5

Instructions
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 14 Aug. 2020.
"Using Citation Generators Responsibly." Purdue Online Writing Lab, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/using_citation_machines_responsibly.html. Accessed 11 June 2020.
Essay Topic 8
Mitford, Jessica. "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain." 1978. Internet Archive, uploaded 30 June 2013, web.archive.org/web/20130630153403/http:/www.hartlandhighschool.us/teachers/czapski/documents/BehindtheFormaldehydeCurtain.pdf. Accessed 11 June 2020.

If you choose topic 8 for your essay, begin your research by reading this article.
Essay Topic 17
Jones, Emma. "In Defense of Slacktivism." The Gateway: The University of Alberta's Student Journalism Society, 15 Nov. 2016, thegatewayonline.ca/2016/11/in-defense-of-slacktivism/. Accessed 11 June 2020.

If you choose topic 17 for your essay, begin your research by reading this article.
Essay Topic 19
Rauch, Jonathan. "It's Time to Drop the 'LGBT' from 'LGBTQ.'" The Atlantic Monthly, January/February 2019, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/dont-call-me-lgbtq/576388/. Accessed 11 June 2020.

If you choose topic 19 for your essay, begin your research by reading this article.

Unit 5: Writing a Research-Based Argumentative Essay

Macleod, Shaun. "Opinion Essay or Persuasive Essay." YouTube, uploaded by Smrt English, 15 Nov. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqwzYoThUpg.
"Developing Strong Thesis Statements." Purdue Online Writing Lab, owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/establishing_arguments/index.html. Accessed 5 June 2020.
"Logic in Argumentative Writing." Purdue Online Writing Lab. owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/index.html. Accessed 5 June 2020.
"Can You Spot the Fallacy?" Fun Trivia, www.funtrivia.com/html5/index.cfm?qid=281476. Accessed 5 June 2020.
"More Fallacies Quiz II." Online Learning Center for Critical Thinking by Brooke Moore and Richard Parker [8th ed.], McGraw-Hill Education, highered.mheducation.com/sites/007312625x/student_view0/chapter6/more_fallacies_quiz_ii.html. Accessed 5 June 2020.

Unit 6: Rhetorical Analysis Essay

"What Is a Rhetorical Analysis?" YouTube, uploaded by Kyle Stedman, 16 Jan. 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s0LqAdqkV0.
"How to Use Rhetoric to Get What You Want - Camille A. Langston." YouTube, uploaded by TED-Ed, 20 Sept. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3klMM9BkW5o&feature=youtu.be.
"Rhetorical Analysis: Beyond Ethos, Pathos, and Logos." YouTube, uploaded by Tony DeFilippo, 24 Apr. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpygoiMpHA.

Assignment 6

Choice One
Booth, Wayne C. "The Rhetorical Stance." College Composition and Communication, vol. 14, no. 3, Oct. 1963, pp. 139–45, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/355048.
Choice Two
Twenge, Jean M. "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2017, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/. Accessed 11 June 2020.
Wang, Esmé Weijun. "Who Gets to Be the 'Good Schizophrenic'?" BuzzFeed News, 7 Apr. 2016, www.buzzfeednews.com/article/esmewwang/who-gets-to-be-the-good-schizophrenic. Accessed 11 June 2020.
Damon, William. "The Death of Honesty." Endangered Virtues (Hoover Institution's Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society), 12 Jan. 2012, www.hoover.org/research/death-honesty. Accessed 11 June 2020.
Tsing Loh, Sandra. "Daddy Issues." The Atlantic Monthly, March 2012, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/daddy-issues/308890/. Accessed 11 June 2020.
Baggini, Julian. "The Vegan Carnivore?" Aeon, 3 Sept. 2013, aeon.co/essays/is-there-any-reason-vegetarians-can-t-eat-lab-grown-meat. Accessed 1 June 2020.
Read, Max. "How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually." Intelligencer, 26 Dec. 2018, nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html. Accessed 11 June 2020.

Course Information

"APA Sample Paper." Purdue OWL, 2020, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_sample_paper.html. Accessed 2 Nov. 2020.