solved Purposes of Unit 3 Exploratory Essay Critical Reading StrategiesSummary WritingResponding

Purposes of Unit 3 Exploratory Essay Critical Reading StrategiesSummary WritingResponding to textDeepening understanding of conversationRhetorical understanding of texts and conversationPreliminary research to track conversationsExploratory writing to understand conversationCultivating complexity about conversationRevision and ReflectionAssignment DescriptionNow that you’ve had some practice summarizing different texts and analyzing how they communicate to readers, it’s your turn to join a conversation on our relationship with technology by writing an Exploratory Essay (at least 1,500 words). An Exploratory Essay invites you to explore a question of your choice related to our course theme, identify and summarize sources that help you answer that question, and develop your own purpose for writing through working out an answer to your question that explores it’s complexity. Here’s the process in a bit more detail: you will begin with one of the texts from our last unit. It may be good to begin with the text you wrote your rhetorical analysis on, but that is not necessary. Then you will use this “starting text” as a place to develop a question and apply some research strategies to find 2-3 new, related sources on the question. Then, you will learn methods for assessing the usefulness of the sources you’ve found. (It’s likely that you may need to do an additional round of research after you find gaps or overlaps in your sources). Once you’ve finalized 2-3 sources, you’ll read them carefully, write summaries on them, and respond to the ideas they’ve. Finally, you’ll synthesize them in an intentionally organized way that helps you answer your original question.There are many reasons we are turning to an exploratory essay now, at this point in the semester. For one, you’ve had an opportunity to tell your own story and perspective with a narrative and you’ve practiced advanced reading strategies that allow you to summarize and analyze a source. All of these skills will be utilized as you develop your own creative, new insight on our relationship with technology. Additionally, this project is designed as a ‘mini’ introduction to research that will provide you with a few basic research processes/strategies as well as some information literacy concepts. These new skills and knowledges will help prepare you for the larger, independent research project that you will compose in RHET102. And finally, this project has been designed to encourage you to “cultivate complexity” about a topic instead of the typical for-against, pro-con, yes-no, black-white thinking/research/arguments framework of thinking. Learning Outcomes (What you should aim to learn/accomplish with this essay)An Exploratory Essay will…Maintain a purpose by…Identify the complexity of your topic and how you are entering the conversation on it.Articulate the significance of the topic for you and your audience.Demonstrating how your thinking about your topic has deepened as a result of your preliminary research.Identify appropriate evidence by…Including accurate and effective summaries of the sources being explored.Incorporate direct quotes effectively as specific ideas to explore and respond to.Making at least one significant connection between sources that provides new insight.Demonstrates control of style by…Demonstrating clarity and organization.Making purposely grammar and mechanics choices that convey a generalized academic ethos.Incorporate direct quotes and/or paraphrases effectively and accurately to meet an academic citation genre of choice (e.g. MLA, APA, or Chicago).