Write an exploratory essay
- Include accurate and effective summaries for the two new sources being explored
- Discuss the conversation being explored, demonstrating how your thinking about it has deepened as a result of your reading and research. This will involve discussing what you have learned, as well as posing questions and sharing ideas.
- Put some ideas into conversation with one another, incorporating direct quoteseffectively when necessary.
- Provide some reflection on your research process and strategies used.
- Your work should also demonstrate clarity and organization and convey academic ethos by being relatively free of grammatical and mechanical errors.
Find two new texts (articles, videos, interactive websites, etc.), one of which will be academic, related to our course theme this semester: bilingualism, rhetoric, language and your community, writing and your interests, etc. You’ll choose from one of five categories to explore the course theme.
- Summarize the three texts (one academic, two popular press) you’ve chosen
- Explore the points of view presented by the texts
- Reflect on how these new voices in the conversation have expanded your thinking.
Format Guidelines:
– Left-Aligned MLA Heading with your First and Last Name, Assignment Title, Instructor Name, and Due Date
-Microsoft Word Document or PDF
-1-Inch Margins
-12 point Font-Times New Roman
-Double-Spaced
– MLA Works Cited page at the end