Researched Argument Evaluation Quiz

 This Quiz is worth 20 points. Please answer the questions thoroughly and thoughtfully.

Step 1: Turn to the BACK SIDE of the FIRST PAGE and answer the following questions there. 

Question 1: Underline your thesis statement.

   2: Describe the topic / issue you’ve chosen to address and what motivated you

to research and write upon this subject.

               3: What is the purpose, goal, for writing this paper?

               4: Who is your intended audience?

   5: Considering the semester, what skills did you work to implement from other

papers into this paper.  How? 

   6:  What about this paper did you find enjoyable?

   7: What about writing this paper did you find challenging?

   8: Describe the peer review for this paper.  What was useful?  What would you

change?

Step 2: Read over the paper one last time to correct any spelling or grammatical errors you may have missed.

STEP 3: If you haven’t attached the peer review sheets to the back of your final draft, pull them out to include when you turn in this paper.

Conference Paper Self Evaluation Quiz

This quiz is worth 25 points.  Please answer the questions thoroughly and thoughtfully. 

Step 1: Turn to the BACK SIDE of the FIRST PAGE and answer the following questions there. 

Question 1: Underline your thesis statement.

   2: Describe the topic / issue you’ve chosen to address and what motivated you

to research and write upon this subject.

               3: What is the purpose, goal, for writing this paper?

               4: Who is your intended audience?

   5: Considering the semester, what skills did you work to implement from other

papers into this paper.  How? 

   6:  What about this paper did you find enjoyable?

   7: What about writing this paper did you find challenging?

   8: Describe the peer review for this paper.  What was useful?  What would you

change?

Step 2: Read over the paper one last time to correct any spelling or grammatical errors you may have missed.

STEP 3: If you haven’t attached the peer review sheets to the back of your final draft, pull them out to include when you turn in this paper.

Annotated Bibliography Self Evaluation

Directions: This evaluation is worth 10 points. Please answer each question thoroughly and thoughtfully.

Step 1: Turn to the backside of your first page.  Answer the following questions on this side of the paper. 

Question 1: What do you see as the purpose of writing an annotated bibliography?  And how does an annotated bibliography fit into the scheme of writing a research paper?

Q 2: What are the parts of an annotated bibliography? And define each part (what is

included or what does each entail?).

Q 3: Place a star (*) next to your best annotation.  

Q 4: Explain what makes your best annotation good.   

Q 5: Place a frowning face L next to your least successful annotation. 

Q 6: Explain what was most challenging about this annotation.

Q7: Describe your process for citing each source.  Explain your experience using

MLA or APA formatting.

Q 8: Indicate which, if any, of your sources are popular by marking a “P” next to the

citation. 

Q 10: Tell me about your peer review.  What was useful?  What did you learn? What was not useful?  What would you change?

Step 2: Give your paper one last read through.  Fix any grammar or spelling errors you find. 

Step 3: When you are finished turn your paper in.

Proposal Self-Evaluation

Step 1: Turn to the backside of your first page.  Answer the following questions on this side of the paper. 

Question 1: What is the purpose of this Proposal? 

Q 2: Identify the three sections required for this proposal and give an

example of some element that fits under that section.

Q 3: What aspects of writing this paper were easy for you?

Q 4: What aspect of writing this paper was the most challenging?

Q 5: Tell me about your peer review.  What was useful?  What did you

learn?  What was not useful?  What would you change?

Q 6: Have you met with me to discuss either a past paper, or your research issue? When?

Step 2: Give your paper one last read through.  Fix any grammar or spelling errors you find. 

Step 3: Underline your research question.

Step 4: When you are finished turn your paper in.

Paraphrase: Ecoporn and the Manipulation of Desire

The Grand Tetons and the Grand Canyon, both stereotyped objects of idealized, romanticized desire in our cultural psyche, are in fact living environments more vital than any single human being.  The glamorization of these particular protrusions and cleavages, primarily by landscape photographers, into erogenous zones of our collective imagination has damaged both them and us.  They have been damaged by our cumulative attention.  We make pilgrimage to the objects we have admired on calendars and trample the habitats of other species or exterminate them for their inconvenience to our viewing pleasure.  In the process, our perceptions have been blunted and perverted, just like those of the readers of Playboy.

Knighton, Jose. “Ecoporn and the Manipulation of Desire.”  169.

Rhetorical Analysis Self Evlauation

1.  Underline your thesis statement.
2. Turn to the backside of your first page and answer the following questions there.   
3. In your own words, define "Rhetorical Analysis."
4. Describe the purpose to writing a rhetorical analysis.
5. What aspects of writing this paper were easy (give specific examples).
6. What aspects of writing this paper were challenging?  (give specific examples). 
7. In a paragraph, tell me about your peer review.  What was useful?  What was surprising?  What was not useful? What would you change?
8. What are the four parts of the Rhetorical Situation?
9. What are the three types of claims?
10. What are the three appeals?

When you have finished answering the questions, give your paper one last read through and fix any grammar or spelling errors.   Then turn it in.

Conservation is Good Work by Wendell Berry

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