Read a variety of sources in the ARC databases that are relevant to your topic. You will likely read 5-6 articles before choosing the 3 articles that are the most useful. Take careful notes to document your research and keep track of quoted and paraphras
Paper details:
Revised Research Project (Reclaiming Conversation): Annotated Bibliography and Rogerian Essay
Final Essay: Rogerian Letter
Main source: Sherry Turkle’s book Reclaiming Conversation
Additional Sources: 3 articles from the ARC research databases
Important Dates for this project:
April 21st: Annotated Research Bibliography (600 words)
May 5th: Peer Review Draft of Essay (750-1,000 words)
May 12th: Final Revision of Essay (1,500 words)
In a Rogerian argument, composed as a letter, you must establish common ground with a resistant audience. Write a letter to a person to convince them of the value of face-to-face conversation. Choose a reader who strongly disagrees with you. This may be a romantic partner, a parent, a son or daughter, a friend, a colleague, or someone else you can think of. Your audience must be a real person and not a hypothetical resistant reader.
Your argument must be based on facts and sound reasoning and show an understanding of your reader’s values and assumptions. You must use evidence from the book and your own research to support your argument.
Step 1: Topic Selection, Library Research
Before creating an argument about a complex issue, writers have to explore the subject by conducting research. We will devote time in class to discuss strategies for focusing your research and creating a research question that is appropriate in scope. The weeks 11 and 12 modules will introduce you to library research.
Read a variety of sources in the ARC databases that are relevant to your topic. You will likely read 5-6 articles before choosing the 3 articles that are the most useful. Take careful notes to document your research and keep track of quoted and paraphrased material.
Step 2: MLA-Style Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a works cited, in which each citation is followed by an annotation, a paragraph that summarizes the main point of your source and very briefly explains why/how the source is useful given your research question. Your sources must be in alphabetical order, and each citation must be followed by a 200-word annotation. We will devote class time to working on format and examine a sample annotated bibliography.
The title for this bibliography is your research question.
Step 4: Rogerian Essay
We will study the form and purpose of this type of argument as well as examine a sample Rogerian outline and a Rogerian essay written by a former student of mine.