Instructions:After everyone has copied their original paragraph so their groupmates can see it, follow the directions for Phase Two. Pick TWO of your groupmates and critique (constructively — NO being mean) their plan of action. If you see something they should possibly change, tell them. Have they forgotten to address an element? Remind them.When you do this, you may only critique people who already have two critiques IF there is nobody else in the class who do not already have two critiques posted. This is so everyone will have a chance to benefit from their group’s input.Follow the directions as to how/what to critique, do it, and you’re done with Phase Two! Example:a. Short-term tasks would include picking a web source and a peer-reviewed research article in order to prepare to write the first two essays. Long-term tasks would include conducting research to properly piece together my papers and thinking about how I will write my final essay.b. Selecting my research question weeks in advance before the due date to ensure I have enough time to complete my work in an adequate manner and using prior knowledge to complete that phase of the portfolio. Conducting research for my essays to make sure I have met the standards of finding a web source and a peer-reviewed research article. Piecing together all of the material that I have conducted my research on to incorporate it into the final essay.c. Conducting the research for the essays – 6-8 hrsForming the essays – 3-4 hrs eachRevising my essays before turning them in – 1 dayd. In order to complete each task, I will need to thoroughly research and take into consideration what my peers have concluded, to improve my work. Also, giving myself a reasonable amount of time to submit and research my work to the best ability.e. Phase 4 – Using my prior knowledge on a research question and expressing it in a short essayPhase 5 – Finding a reliable online resource that allows me to write an essay based upon the research question I chosePhase 6 – Find a peer-reviewed research article to write an essay based upon the study that was conductedPhase 7 – Combine all the information given in all the phases to write a final paperf. In short term, I will be thinking about what topic I know best to write about and then referring back to my Portfolio Plan to help guide myself during each phase. In long term, I will be conducting numerous amounts of research to help with my essays. example about comment 1 :Good work! I read over your plan and the only thing that seems to be missing is incorporating the use of an outline. I know you set an ample amount of hours for research, but I feel as though ensuring that the outline for this project is written down concretely is the first step. I think that completing this assignment early is a great start, but just remember that with 5 or so other classes, it might not be as easy to set aside a whole day to review each of the essays. That means 8 hours will be set aside for each essay’s revision which might be a long time. I think another necessary skill needed for finding the sources and choosing a topic involves comprehension of the material and ensuring that you understand what you are reading. You did say that you were gonna choose a topic you are familiar with, but make sure comprehension is one of your main deciding factors and have it written in you plan. Other than that, your plan seems solid, good job! example about comment 2 :after reading over your plan you did a really good job, there are only a couple of things i see that could be improved. Like Bianca mentioned an outline is an important part of the assignment you should consider adding, to make sure your thoughts are organized before writing. Another thing i noticed is that instead of allocating 24 hours for essay revision, i would consider stretching time for the initial writing of the essay to allow for a better first submission, and less time revising later.

After reviewing Zinn’s and Schweikart’s personal assumptions, beliefs, and values as well as excerpts from their historical writing, respond to the following questions:What do you believe to be the major distinctions in their personal assumptions, beliefs, and values?What do you believe to be the major distinctions in their interpretations of history?Do you notice any biases? If so, what are they?Guidelines for Submission: Respond to all three questions. Each response should be two to three sentences in length. In history, bias is defined as the incorporation of personal assumptions, beliefs, and values into historical writing. Sometimes this bias is conscious, and other times it is unconscious. Reading a bit more about a historian can help you understand their personal assumptions, beliefs, and values. In turn, this can help you understand what biases they might potentially introduce in their writing.Two major historians, Howard Zinn and Larry Schweikart, have written popular books on American history containing very different historical interpretations of the same events.A text only version is available: A Tale of Two Historians Text Only Transcript Word DocumentPerspectives: A Tale of Two Historical BiasesAfter reviewing the interactive above bit about Zinn’s and Schweikart’s personal assumptions, beliefs, and values, take a look at how they have written about the same historical events: Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492. As you read through each excerpt, be sure to consider what biases may be present in their work.Zinn, H. (2010). A people’s history of the United States. New York, NY: Harper Perennial. “To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to de-emphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves—unwittingly—to justify what was done.My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)—that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth. We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly.” (p. 9)Schweikart, L., & Allen, M. (2004). A patriot’s history of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the war on terror. New York, NY: Sentinel. “The five‐hundred‐year anniversary of Columbus’s discovery was marked by unusual and strident controversy. Rising up to challenge the intrepid voyager’s courage and vision—as well as the establishment of European civilization in the New World—was a crescendo of damnation, which posited that the Genoese navigator was a mass murderer akin to Adolf Hitler.Even the establishment of European outposts was, according to the revisionist critique, a regrettable development. Although this division of interpretations no doubt confused and dampened many a Columbian festival in 1992, it also elicited a most intriguing historical debate: did the esteemed Admiral of the Ocean Sea kill almost all the Indians? A number of recent scholarly studies have dispelled or at least substantially modified many of the numbers generated by the anti‐Columbus groups, although other new research has actually increased them.” (pp. 7–8)

AssignmentsProject 2 includes assignments tied to each reading that build up to the Analytic Exploration, in which you will analyze and synthesize a conversation spanning academic and popular sources. The topic of the conversation you choose to explore will stem from current research within the journals of a scholarly discipline. Additional assignments, such as reading quizzes, discussion posts, and activities, will be included to help you practice the related skills and interact with your peers and your Instructor. Additional directions may be added and clarified by your Instructor, but the core requirements of the assignments are as follows: Analytic Exploration: The Analytic Exploration is framed around a basic research aim, which is to explore the current research on a topic in a discipline. To do so, you will locate a current conversation within the recent research of a discipline and analyze three academic articles and two public to determine the current disciplinary perspectives on the topic in the discipline. You will also collect and integrate primary source material. The Analytic Exploration should be 1000-1500 words and include a minimum of 6 sources, at least 3 scholarly, 2 public, and 1 primary. The Analytic Exploration should include a thesis that synthesizes the analyses, as well as context, summary and analysis of three scholarly sources, summary of two popular sources, summary of primary source material, and a conclusion. topic : Business with sustainability. after completing writing please provide:Highlight your thesis statement in your paper. In this textbox, rewrite your thesis statement to make it stronger and explain what edits you made and why.Highlight a piece of contextual evidence. In this textbox, explain why this is important for your reader to know.Review the summary and analysis for your first academic article. Read the content for comprehension, and think about the analysis, interpretation, and integration. Identify how the analysis is connected to the overall thesis and the other sources. In this textbox, state some modification or addition that can strengthen the effectiveness of this section.Review the summary and analysis for your second academic article. Read the content for comprehension, and think about the analysis, interpretation, and integration. Identify how the analysis is connected to the overall thesis and the other sources. In this textbox, state some modification or addition that can strengthen the effectiveness of this section.Review the summary and analysis for your third academic article. Read the content for comprehension, and think about the analysis, interpretation, and integration. Identify how the analysis is connected to the overall thesis and the other sources. In this textbox, state some modification or addition that can strengthen the effectiveness of this section.Review the summary and analysis for your two public sources. Read the content for comprehension, and think about the analysis, interpretation, and integration. Identify how the analysis is connected to the overall thesis and the other sources. In this textbox, state some modification or addition that can strengthen the effectiveness of this section.Review the summary and analysis for your survey data. Read the content for comprehension and connection, and think about the analysis, interpretation, and integration. Identify how the analysis is connected to the overall thesis and the other sources. In this textbox, state some modification or addition that can strengthen the effectiveness of this section.Identify any synthesis of the sources throughout each section and throughout the document. In this textbox, state some modification or addition that can strengthen the effectiveness of the synthesis throughout the submission. Review the conclusion for clarity and creativity. In this textbox, state some modification or addition that can strengthen the effectiveness of this section.

In order to complete this paper assignment, students will interview a person of another culture or ethnicity. Ideally the person should be from a cultural or ethnic experience that differs from yours, but in some cases, interviewing an older family member can be illuminating as well. The interview should include the following information on the person interviewed. The idea is to learn new things, and expose yourself to information that you previously did not have experience with. There are two sections to this assignment, your interview and your interpretation of the interview in terms of your experience, in other words data on the person you interviewed, and data on you are the interviewer. Not only should your paper have an Introduction and Conclusion, the Body of your paper should be divided into various subheadings that cover the specific information being discussed for both Section 1 and 2 of your paper.You may change the name of the person you are interviewing and use an alias if you wish. Please be sure to explain to the person you are interviewing that this is an exercise in learning more about other peoples cultures and experiences as part of the fulfillment of your Cultural Diversity course.Section 1: On the person being Interviewed 1) Description of ethnic background – Eritrean, Ethiopian, Peruvian, or it may be a mixture, such as African and Spanish, Norwegian and Swedish, German and English. 2) History of coming to the USA. Historic background of how the people your interviewee has ties with came to be in the United States; when and why they came (were they immigrants or refugees, motivated by dreams of a better life, or running from oppression or poverty); the journey to this country, including any circumstances you consider significant. You may focus on a particular circumstance / event or you may choose to cover and discuss the more general circumstances of others of the ethnic group that the person you are interviewing belongs to. This section of your paper is substantial and should contain citations and sources because you are doing background research on history. 3) Reception of the members of the ethnicity by other Americans. To what degree were there immigration policies, restrictive or exclusionary policies which affected the opportunities of the newcomers? To what degree did they encounter discrimination or encouragement in their new communities? 4) Aspects or characteristics of the person’s ethnic background that are salient or important to them and their family; what features, such as the humor, the food, family relations, patterns of communication and childrearing, etc. contribute to the person’s way of thinking and being and those of others of their ethnic background?5) Strengths. What strengths can the person trace to their ethnic background? (In some cases, these may be best observed through family values).Section 2: Questions for the Interviewer (you the student)In addition to the above questions regarding the person you interviewed, please answer the following in regards to your interviewing experience:1) What were your feelings/emotions as you put yourself in the situation of interviewing the person for this assignment? 2) Reflect on how your group membership, race, and/or other factors influenced the ways you interpreted the experience.3) Did any common themes about race /ethnicity appear during the course of your completing the assignment? Discuss what you think were the meanings of these themes.4) If applicable, what were the aspects of white privilege that you did or did not observe or experience during the interview (this could be anything from a story told by the person who you were interviewing, to how you may have been viewed by the person etc.)? If anything came up, in your opinion, what were reasons why these occurred in those situations? 5) What did you learn about society/race/minority status, etc. AND yourself as a result of doing this paper?

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Design Analysis Paragraph: 
This will be an analysis of your chosen media, static/still or dynamic/moving, and will be one paragraph long. The DESIGN analysis focuses on composition, arrangement, focus, foreground and background images, images in the center and on the margin, symbols, cultural references, and key features of the genre.  Factors to consider include such as shapes and colors, arrangement and emphasis, facial expressions and body language, visual tropes or figures of “speech,” and font styles and sizes.
Media choice from 5.5
(Refer to hyperlink  9/30 Choices for your Visual Analysis Essay )
(Also use the Design Analysis paragraphs from model Student Examples as models in  10/05 Breakout Group I Discussions : Short Critique of One Student Visual Analysis Essay Example )
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Format (only suggested)
Depending on the genre and size of the document under analysis, there are a number of logical ways to organize your DESIGN ANALYSIS paragraph. Below are a few possible options. Whichever you choose, the goal  is to present an extended analysis of how that part functions, and suggest how the part ties into a larger point (your thesis statement or goal).  CONSIDER: factors such as shapes and colors, arrangement and emphasis, facial expressions and body language, visual tropes or figures of “speech,” and font styles and sizes as it influences composition, arrangement, focus, foreground and background images, images in the center and on the margin, symbols, cultural references, and key features of the genre.
1.) CHRONOLOGICAL  (DESIGN ANALYSIS BODY PARAGRAPH)
        BEST FOR A DYNAMIC IMAGE: MOVING
This is the most straight-forward approach, but it can also be effective if done for a reason (as opposed to not being able to think of another way). For example, if you are analyzing a photo essay on the web or in a booklet, a chronological treatment allows you to present your insights in the same order that a viewer of the document experiences those images. It is likely that the images have been put in that order and juxtaposed for a reason, so this line of analysis can be easily integrated into the essay.
Be careful using chronological ordering when dealing with a document that contains a narrative (i.e. a television show or music video). Focusing on the chronological could easily lead you to plot summary which is not the point of a rhetorical analysis.
2.) ***SPATIAL  (DESIGN ANALYSIS BODY PARAGRAPH)…
         BEST FOR A STATIC IMAGE: STILL
A spatial ordering covers the parts of a document in the order the eye is likely to scan them. This is different than chronological order, for that is dictated by pages or screens where spatial order concerns order amongst a single page or plane. There are no unwavering guidelines for this, but you can use the following general guidelines.

Left to right and top to down is still the normal reading and scanning pattern for English-speaking countries.
The eye will naturally look for centers. This may be the technical center of the page or the center of the largest item on the page.
Lines are often used to provide directions and paths for the eye to follow.
Research has shown that on web pages, the eye tends to linger in the top left quadrant before moving left to right. Only after spending a considerable amount of time on the top, visible portion of the page will they then scroll down.

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Composition Concerns: the Analysis paragraph is to be written in formal voice (3rd person);
advice on paragraph construction follows:
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