Bill Maher is correct and Ted Kyle is wrong. In the United States, we’ve gone from fat acceptance to fat celebration, and we are encouraging obesity.

September 13, 2023September 13, 2023 Discipline: Writing

Objective:   The purpose of this Assignment is to write a Definition Argument that successfully meets the criteria laid out here  and in any Grading Rubric that your instructor is using. 

Step One:  Read and understand the description of the assignment outlined here. 

Step Two: Read in your textbook:   “Arguments of Definition” 

Step Three:  Any questions? Contact your instructor.  Uncertain if your thesis statement actually makes an argument? Contact your instructor.   Create an early draft of your essay (aim for 500 words or so). Use MLA citation style.  

Step Four:  6 Days or more before the final due date, send the early draft of your essay to your instructor and/or to Thinkingstorm.  (note: this is not required, but it is a good idea) This is for the web version of this course.  If you are taking this class f2f your instructor may have a different timeframe for reviewing drafts . 

Step Five:  Read the Feedback and incorporate suggestions from your essay reviewer.  Complete Works Cited and other revisions. 

Step Six:   Submit your final version essay ( @ 1,100 words,  double spaced please)  to Assignment Dropbox for grading.   

The first step is to understand the assignment.  To that end, students should read CHAPTER 9 (“Arguments of Definition”)  in the textbook and this description of the assignment.     After reading, students must watch this clip of the Bill Maher show and they must read the article in the USA Today published on July 26, 2022. 
They must also read at least one post by Ted Kyle.   Here are the links to the Maher clip, the article in the USA Today,  and the Ted Kyle post:                                                                         

https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1555772246278299649

Students:  Choose one of  the following for your  thesis statement: 

Bill Maher is correct and Ted Kyle is wrong.   In the United States, we’ve gone from fat acceptance to fat celebration, and we are encouraging obesity.  

Bill Maher is wrong and Ted Kyle is right.    Bill Maher is fat shaming, and as a society we are catastrophizing obesity.                                                                                                                

Please be sure in your essay to take us back into the Maher clip , the USA Today article, and the Kyle post.  This means DIRECTLY  QUOTING from each one of these sources at least once and probably more.  Be sure to use your textbook and Module Two for help incorporating quoted material in your essay.                                                                                   

Focus more on the definition argument that he puts forth than on the  person of Bill Maher.   Maher, Kyle, and others have interesting ideas about this public health issue.  Stay focused on those ideas.    Start by using the Maher clip as your kairotic moment.    Read about the fat acceptance movement and efforts that YOU have seen to reduce the social stigma of people carrying bigger sizes  of body weight.   Avoid the temptation to propose solutions  (” in America we should………………”  ).   Essay #1  is a definition argument, not a proposal argument.   

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