From b93d2f7b586e90b5d8dd1798169805ea04086029 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holden Rohrer
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 21:22:42 -0500
Subject: the final (I hope) edit of the portfolio
Good fucking night
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social norms.
Purpose
- This assignment asks students to write a formal essay about
- health and readings related to ideas about health.
+ 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.
Audience
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."
-
-
- Dr. Markley or a general academic reader. more formal than blog
- posts. designed to be practice with argumentative writing.
+ if used, like "scientific racism" or "evolutionary Darwinism."
Design for Medium
The essay isn't very "multimodal," squarely occupying the
"Writing" communication mode, and it's formal writing at that.
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