Assignment

Reading: John P. Foreyt, "Weight Loss Diets: Are They All the Same?"

Assessment Specifics

Cover Letter

• Minimum 150 words (successful cover letters are often longer)

• Address letter to your instructor

• Answer at least 3 of the 6 questions below; (where applicable) provide brief, specific examples of the following in your cover letter:

o What is your primary motivation or purpose for writing your draft? Who is your intended audience? What revisions did you make in order to improve how you accomplish this purpose and/or appeal to this audience?

o What feedback did you receive from your peers? How did you use this feedback to revise your draft? How do these revisions improve your draft?

o What feedback did you receive from other sources, such as your instructor or tutors? How did you use this feedback to revise your draft? How do these revisions improve your draft?

o What have you decided to revise in your draft, apart from feedback you received? Why? How do these revisions improve your draft?

o What problems or challenges did you encounter while writing or revising your draft? How did you solve them?

o What valuable lessons about writing effectively have you learned as a result of composing this project?

• Place the cover letter at the beginning of your final draft, before the first page of your actual essay draft; delete your purpose statement.

Your Final Draft (Use this list if you are writing Rhetorical Analysis). Be sure to check in Module 6 which analysis assignment your instructor requires.

• A Rhetorical Analysis of the core reading you wrote about for Writing Project 1

• Clear identification, early in the draft, of the core reading by full author name and full article title (following MLA or APA style for formatting titles) and brief overview of the article's content (This is usually part of the introduction.)

• Clearly developed thesis statement making a claim about the purpose or effectiveness of rhetorical features of the core reading

• Well-reasoned analysis of the core reading's rhetorical strategies, supported with evidence

• Use of at least one additional source found using the Ivy Tech Virtual Library databases

• Use of at least 10 quotes (words, phrases, or key sentences) and/or paraphrases (key details or ideas rephrased in your own words), of the core reading and/or your additional outside source, cited using correct in-text citations

• APA or MLA manuscript style, as specified by your instructor, with in-text citations and a References or Works Cited list that includes ALL sources used. (References or Works Cited list does not count in the minimum word-count requirement)

• Observation of the conventions of Standard English

• 1000 words minimum for final draft (the minimum 150 words for the cover letter is not included in this count)

Your Final Draft (Use this list if you are writing Comparative Analysis). Be sure to check in Module 6 which analysis assignment your instructor requires.

• A comparative analysis of the two of the core readings, including the one you wrote about for Writing Project 1
• Clear identification, early in the draft, of the core readings by full author name and full article title (following MLA or APA style for formatting

titles) and brief overview of each article's content (This is usually part of the introduction.)

• Clearly developed thesis statement making a significant claim about the similarities and differences between the two core readings

• Well-reasoned analysis based on relevant and complex comparisons, , supported with evidence from the core readings

• Use of at least one additional source found using the Ivy Tech Virtual Library databases

• Use of at least 10 quotes and/or paraphrases from the core readings and/or your outside source, cited using correct in-text citations

• APA or MLA manuscript style, as specified by your instructor, with in-text citations and a Works Cited or References list including ALL sources used. (Works Cited or References list does not count in the minimum word-count requirement)

• Observation of the conventions of Standard English

• 1000 words minimum for final draft (the minimum 150 words for the cover letter is not included in this count).