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diff --git a/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html b/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html index dcf79ee..235201d 100644 --- a/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html +++ b/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html @@ -85,8 +85,21 @@ Thinking, and Process (reuse language from common policies page)--> 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 @@ -95,11 +108,7 @@ Thinking, and Process (reuse language from common policies page)--> 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. |