19 Apr FINAL EXAM ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS
FINAL EXAM ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS
Word Count minimum 850 words
We have analyzed how various texts use rhetorical appeals to persuade and deliver a message to their audience depending on the genre and purpose of the text. Now that you are able to identify and analyze ethos, logos, pathos, and Kairos and they are used in writing, it is your turn to apply what you have learned to your own writing. It is your turn to convince your target audience (MDC Students) by applying ethos, logos, and pathos in your own persuasive essay.
Your genre is an academic, mostly third person, argumentative essay written in MLA style
Your audience are MDC students
Your purpose is to persuade MDC students to take action on a significant issue that you care deeply about and to incorporate two solutions-based articles for support.
Examples of possible issues to write about:
– A specific issue within Climate change
– Police reform
– Issues related to Mental Health
– Issues related to Physical Wellbeing
– Gender pay gap
– Wealth gap and income inequality
– Gentrification
– Climate gentrification
– Homelessness
– Others….
Grading Rubric
Meeting word count (10pts): students at or above 850 will earn 10 points. Students slightly below will lose 10 points. Students who submit an incomplete essay will not pass the class (600 words or less is incomplete).
MLA Style with Works Cited page (10pts)
Grammar and Clarity (10pts)
Appealing to logos (25pts): students will appeal to logos by including two research articles to support their argument. The articles must be about the same issues and must be credible sources. Student must give thoughtful and well explained arguments that attempt to persuade their target audience. Student use an organized and logical structure with appropriate paragraph breaks and transitions.
Appealing to Ethos (20pts): student follows MLA, uses a professional, cites sources appropriately and uses their own personal experience to convince students to act.
Appealing to pathos (25pts): student uses good word choice, tone, descriptions or stories that connect to the reader. Student makes the audience see the importance of the issue. Student moves audience to act.
