Magnus Opus/Resume & Cover Resources

HOW TO FINISH THIS COURSE and FIND ALL THE HANDOUTS YOU NEED

  • Final Project HELP HERE

  • FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL: Magnus Opus and Exigence

    Post this in class ON MONDAY, May 4.  Please respond to two other posts from your class by Friday no later than midnight. Comment on your interest or any ideas you have for the topic and proposed treatment.

     NOTE:  use my Tatoo Inks and Happiness posts for structure and format. USE THE LOGOS OF DETAILS.

  • FINAL PROJECT: Rev. Bib. and audience worksheet

    Consider their ethos with the annotation process.  Complete the audience analysis worksheet in this assignment and bring to class on WEDNESDAY, MAY 6th IN HARD COPY.

    You will turn in two items in hard copy: the annotations of your old sources and news sources (at least seven total) sources and the audiences worksheet.

  • FINAL PROJECT:Structures and Arguments

    Read Bruce Ross-Larson's chapter on structures. Choose one or two to shape your document and present your arguments.  Be prepared to post by FRIDAY before 5 PM,  May 8.

    SAMPLE:

    Science of Happiness: Structure and Arguments

    LOGOS: 1) data on incidence of depression and anxiety disorders; 2) brain chemistry models of mood; 3)neuro-anatomy associated with depressed mood; 4) studies on resilency; 5)documentation of positive outlook psychology strategies

    PATHOS: two case studies; quotes from patients now benefiting from cognitive behavorial therapy focused on meaning

    ETHOS: credibility of thinkers like James Hillman, Carol Pearson, Martin Seligman, Victor Frankl.

    STRUCTURE: I will use two structures: 1) Tell a Story and 2) Illustrate a Concept

    GOAL: persuade about the therapeutic value of positive-outlook cognitive behavorial therapy

  • FINAL PROJECT: Abstract and Reader's Reponse

     POST by Monday, May 11 by 5 PM:  Write an abstract of your work, in 250 words or less.  Then write a Reader's Response paragraph from the point of view of a difficult-to-reach-reader.  This means you will address at least one argument against what you write about. Another way to think of this is to address the objection of a difficult or bored or hostile reader.

    For the abstract,

    • write in first person, if you are writing for a lay audience. 
    • write in third person if you are writing for a technical audience. 
       

    For the Reader's Reponse, write in first person as if you were inside the head of the reader. 

    See my example on The Science of Happiness.