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+<!--Title: Reading Response Essays and Revision Activities-->
+<h2>Introduction</h2>
+<p>This artifact includes three reading response essays and revision
+activities corresponding to each one on different structural strategies.
+The Reading Response Essays assess critical thinking and rhetoric by
+asking questions about "health" through the books we read in class.
+Health is a set of social ideals generally designed as "preventive
+medicine" but deeply influenced by the culture that created them.
+The reading response essays (without revision activity updates) are
+listed below along with the corresponding revision activities
+</p>
+
+<h3>Reading Response Essay One</h3>
+<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> <em>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
+Hyde</em>, as the title indicates, refers to Dr. Jekyll’s experiments,
+behavior, and transformation as "strange." Likewise, The Sign of Four
+ends with a chapter entitled "The Strange Story of Jonathan Small."
+Explain what "strange" means in these two texts, using direct quotations
+from both texts, references to historical context, and ideas we have
+discussed about "health" to support your argument.</p>
+<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh;
+border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essayone"></object>
+<h3>Uneven-U</h3>
+<p>The Uneven U asks me to choose two paragraphs and look at each
+sentence to see how "abstracted" it is from a direct quote up to a
+general statement about health.
+I commented on each sentence and then rewrote both of the paragraphs I
+chose to get a desired "somewhat abstract to most concrete to very
+abstract" curve.</p>
+<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;"
+src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/12_revision">
+</iframe>
+<h3>Reading Response Essay Two</h3>
+<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> Claude Bernard defines the experiment as "an
+observation induced with an object of control." Discuss how
+experimentation relates to the social ideal of health. Use direct
+evidence from The Island of Dr. Moreau and Medical Apartheid, historical
+context, and ideas about health to support your argument. You may
+include examples from other texts we have read, but your primary focus
+should be the readings from the past two weeks.</p>
+<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh;
+border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essaytwo"></object>
+<h3>Reverse Outline</h3>
+<p>This is about creating an outline from what I've already written that
+tells the main argument: the main idea and how a given paragraph
+advances the central argument is enough to tell when a paragraph's
+message is muddled, which is the point of this argument.
+I have continued to focus on this cohesiveness within a paragraph in my
+writing because of this activity.</p>
+<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;"
+src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/15_reverse_outline">
+</iframe>
+
+<h3>Reading Response Essay Three</h3>
+<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> In the first lecture on health, I discussed
+how new technologies that help to measure and perceive the the "health"
+of the human body create new rules, regulations, and norms that govern
+"health." Using either "The Yellow Wallpaper" or <em>The Immortal Life
+of Henrietta Lacks</em> explain how new technologies, treatments, or
+ideas for measuring "health" lead to new rules, regulations, and norms.
+I strongly encourage you to refer back to the first lecture to help you
+consider this relationship between technology and health.</p>
+<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh;
+border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essaythree"></object>
+<h3>Active Voice Revision Activity</h3>
+<p>This revision activity asks students to review their third essay for
+sentences written in passive voice and change them to active voice.
+This makes the writing more clear and correct.
+This one is pretty simple, so I want to keep up avoiding passive voice
+in my future writing.</p>
+<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;"
+src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/22_active_voice">
+</iframe>
+<dl>
+<dt>Goals</dt><!--Learning Outcomes: Rhetoric, Critical
+Thinking, and Process (reuse language from common policies page)-->
+    <dd>These assignments ask students to develop a strong academic
+    argument about how health and other social constructions like
+    experiments or technology relate.
+    Developing these ideas is part of the
+    <a href="https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common-policies-fall-2020/">
+    Critical Thinking learning outcome,</a> in the sense that they
+    require analysis of the indirect statements literature makes, like
+    Jonathan Small's "strangeness" referring to his nonconformance with
+    social norms.
+    </dd>
+<dt>Purpose</dt>
+    <dd>This assignment asks students to write a formal essay about
+    health and readings related to ideas about health.
+    </dd>
+<dt>Audience</dt>
+    <dd>The audience for these is a general academic audience, who is
+    very familiar with the course material, including the variety of
+    concepts of health.
+    Because the audience should already understand the basics I don't
+    include explanations of health and try to avoid book summaries.
+    However, niche terms with potentially multiple meanings are defined
+    if used, like "scientific racism" or "evolutionary Darwinism."
+
+    </dd>
+    <dd>Dr. Markley or a general academic reader. more formal than blog
+    posts. designed to be practice with argumentative writing.</dd>
+<dt>Design for Medium</dt>
+    <dd>The essay isn't very "multimodal," squarely occupying the
+    "Writing" communication mode, and it's formal writing at that.
+    This requires a fairly consistent structure, in the MLA format and
+    in the organization.
+    The MLA format is the 12pt, double-spaced Times New Roman required
+    of most standard essays, and there is the single MLA8 citation
+    standard.
+    This is because the essays lean heavily on direct quotes from the
+    pieces we're analyzing, so the regimented page number references are
+    useful to an academic reader wanting more context.
+    Structurally, these essays fit a pretty standard academic essay---an
+    introduction, conclusion, and body paragraphs divided up by their
+    topic.
+    As the revision activities show, this structure is somewhat flexible
+    (i.e. can be done poorly), but the organization matters, and I can
+    improve it by paying attention to whether each paragraph makes a
+    convincing point towards the central argument.
+    I usually don't do outlining when I'm writing, but I think I am
+    going to use the reverse outline to compensate for my rambling
+    tendencies.
+    </dd>
+<dt>Revision</dt>
+    <dd>Particularly in the first reading response essay, I struggled
+    with organizing my ideas.
+    Despite a coherent thesis that I still believe, I tried to
+    incorporate different information that did not correspond with my
+    argument (or at least I didn't develop how it did).
+    My mention of Holmes's cocaine addiction is not well-addressed or
+    contextualized in terms of Jonathan Smalls, but it seems to relate
+    to the idea of health, so I decided to include it.
+    Ideas like that could probably be trimmed down and replaced.
+    My paragraphs in the first reading response essay also don't follow
+    Uneven-U very well.
+    If I repair the sentence order to fully develop the central argument
+    about contradiction, they will probably come off as more insightful
+    than they are now, with a quote (the lowest level of abstraction)
+    as the second-to-last sentence.
+    The revision activities helped me to see what exactly "poorly
+    organized" refers to and how paragraphs can be deliberately
+    constructed rather than accumulate ideas based on topic.
+    </dd>
+</dl>