Materials:
This page contains links to materials needed in the class, such as a sample grade sheet, various readings, an audio file or two, paper assignment descriptions.
Course Documents
- Sentence Structure and Modifiers Review, htm. Ignore assignments in these review pages unless you want to do them for review. Only assignments made on the class homepage are due for credit.
- Analysis-style paragraph, htm
- Explanation of parts of analysis pattern paragraph, pdf
- Interview with Mcgloughlin Interview with Mellon, htm
- Description of springboard essays, htm
- Example of a springboard essay, htm
- more online materials in future years
- Local Food Subdirectory/
- Formal Proposal to implement monitoring control system, pdf
- Sullivan's Proposal Outline, doc
- Sullivan's Proposal Draft, doc
- Proposal to upgrade card reader, pdf
- Profile of Patty Murray, pdf
- Profile Assignment, htm
- Profile Assignment, doc
- Possible Profile Subjects, doc
- Profiles Assigned, htm
- Interview Tips, htm
- Profile: Behind White Lab Coat, pdf
- Conference Schedule, htm
- Position Statement Assignment, htm
- Introduction to Dissoi Logoi, htm
- Introduction to Stasis Theory, htm
- Introduction to Rhetorical Topoi, htm
- Logical Fallacies, htm
- Sample Literature Review, htm
- Position Statement Patterns, htm
- Position Statement on Ethanol, Garret Blomstrand, pdf
- Position Statement Topics and Panels, htm
- Questions for Panels, htm
Below are several example position statements. Not all of them follow the parameters of the assignment, but I included a variety so that you can see the elasticity of the genre. The assignment calls for you to integrated at least seven outside sources in your position statement. Not all of these use outside sources.
- Sample Position Statement: Technology and Young Children, htm
- Sample Position Statement on GE Foods, pdf
- Sample Position Statement by Whole Foods, htm
- Sample Position Statement: North Dakota Wheat Commission, htm
- Analysis Questions for Position Statements, htm
- How to develop a campaign message, htm
- Tips for being on panel, htm
- Tips for oral communication, htm
- H.P. Grice's Conversational Maxims, htm
- Portfolio Assignment, htm