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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>Each essay asks students to write a formal argument about health
+ and readings related to ideas about health.
+ These essays are artifacts, demonstrating a trained interpretation
+ of the stories in terms of health, and continuing to develop
+ understanding of medicine and the social ideal.
+ Then, the revision assignments corresponding to each reading
+ response encourage improvement in an iterative revision on the
+ structural elements of the essay.
+ The Uneven-U is about improving the paragraph structure, the Reverse
+ Outline the overall structure of the essay, and the Active Voice
+ activity is for individual sentences' structure.
+ This type of format writing is standard in academia, so it's
+ valuable to develop the skill of catering to the standard, but it
+ also provides for more consistent revision processes because of the
+ consistency.
</dd>
<dt>Audience</dt>
<dd>The audience for these is a general academic audience, who is
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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>
+ if used, like "scientific racism" or "evolutionary Darwinism."</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.