The overarching theme for this class ishigher education and your own experiences related to your insider view of higher education.You will be exploringvarious issues affecting your college experience and/or future career.
Think of a current issue affecting your college education and/or future career. What idea or emotion has been in the back of your mind –related to your college life– that has worried you, or made you happy, or made you contemplate your college experience? Do some quick research tolocate two sourceswhich respond to that issue.
First, go to the Inside Higher Ed website -https://www.insidehighered.com/(Links to an external site.)- to find one of your sources. Particularly, you may be interested in the Student Voice tab at the top of the front page of the Inside Higher Ed website.
Here are some ideas for the keywords that you can type in a Search box on the Inside Higher Ed website: “campus safety”, “high tuition”, “student loans”, “mental health”, “student support services”, “first-generation student”, “access to higher education”, “technology and online learning”, “COVID’s impact”, “financial wellness”, etc.
For your second source, you should look at how the issue is covered in a different genre -such as a news report, editorial, magazine or journal article, blog, documentary, YouTube video, or any otherreliablesource you can access online.
Examples of credible or reliable sources are library items, university websites, major news agencies (e.g., CNN, FOX, MSNBC), higher ed websites such as The Chronicle of Higher Education (https://www.chronicle.com/(Links to an external site.)) or Inside Higher Ed (https://www.insidehighered.com/(Links to an external site.)), or reputable educational companies such as Innovative Educators (https://www.innovativeeducators.org/blogs/edushare-higher-ed-blog-news(Links to an external site.)). Examples of non-credible sources are Wikipedia and personal blogs.
See more about the differences between credible/reliable sources versus non-credible/non-reliable sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLTOVoHbH5c(Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxyKHp47EnQ(Links to an external site.)
You don’t have to prove the credibility, but it would really help if you substantiated your choice of the second source. If you are in doubt, send me the link that you are considering. Hope it helps!
Your second source should ideally represent another genre; however, if you find two useful articles on your chosen issue on the Inside Higher Ed website, you will not be penalized for that.
- Include a linkfor each of your two sources. If I can’t open your two links, I won’t be able to grade this assignment for you. (2 pt.)
- In a few sentences, summarizeeach of your two sources(around 100 words per summary). (6 pts.)
- For each of the two sources, identify the following rhetorical components (as many as you can) (8 pts.):
- Purpose
- Audience
- Ethos
- Pathos
- Logos
- Modes and media
- Style
- Design
- Sources
- Compare the two works.What observations can you make about the rhetorical choices in these two works? How are they similar or different? What does the comparison of these two works teach you about genre? (4 pts.)
- Follow format requirements at the end of your syllabus (First Year Composition Style Sheet). This journal does not have to be fully formatted according to APA guidelines. Just follow the rules that seem to be applicable. We are only practicing using APA at this point, so I am not going to be strict about the details. Once we get to writing essays, you will have to closely follow APA formatting requirements.