Persuasion: MONSTERS–The Assignment
Essays which do not fulfill the requirements of the assignment will not earn passing grades.
Essays do not fulfill the requirements of the assignment if they:
- Are incorrectly formatted,
- Are short of the minimum word count
- Are not taking a clear position and trying to persuade the target audience to that position
- Do not have a separate target audience statement explaining who the audience is and how the author attempted to appeal to it.
- Do not discuss the topic required in the assignment write up
- Do not include the required outside sources
- Do not use supporting examples and at least make an attempt at citing them correctly
- Do not include Work Cited Page
Persuasive Argument:In this essay, you will be using your understanding of ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade your target audience to agree with your position.This assignment requires a minimum of 3 sources. These sources can include interviews with sources but you must establish the source’s ethos. This essay should be a minimum of 750–not including heading, title or Work Cited.
For Face to Face courses only, please attach a copy of the rubric to your hard copy of your final essayThis essay should conform to the expectations of academic writing including:
- The use of formal standard American academic prose (which we discussed in “Essay Basics”
- Being typed, with 12 pt font, in Times New Roman, 1-inch margins, double spaced, without the extra spaces between the paragraphs, and with the appropriate heading (Template attached)
- Having an interesting and appropriate title.
- Having a formal argumentative thesis statement
- Having Fully developed paragraphs including an introduction and a conclusion.
IN THE ESSAY YOU SHOULD:
- Choose a “monster” which is considered by some to be fictitious or supernatural, but that others believe in.
- Take a position: does it exist or not.
- Declare an audience: try convincing your opposition
- Include a separate page (not included in page count) specifically stating your intended audience.
- Establish an intended audience, and invoke this audience (indirectly) in your essay.
- Use your knowledge of your audience (bias, values, etc.) as well as your understanding of ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade your audience to believe your position.
