Assignment
This assignment covers material that is critical to your success in ENG-105. As you take the assignment, please write down vocabulary and concepts that seem unfamiliar. You will have a chance to refresh your understanding of all the information on this assignment throughout our first week of class. Please do not hesitate to ask about study materials for any information you need.
The assignment will be in two parts; part one will be responding to the questions below, and part two will be a multiple choice section; you will be completing this section in the assignment forum (Go to the Task tab>>assignment).
Part One Instruction:
Please answer the following five questions on this document; if you require more room to respond to the question, the space can be manipulated. Please remember to save your work and then submit this document in the assignment drop box for Module 1 assignment: Part One. If you are unclear of these instructions, please contact your instructor.
1. Clark Kent is writing an essay for Professor Thunder Lope's ENG-105 course and asks you to guide him in writing his heading in GCU Style for a paper. In the space below, please write the heading for this paper in GCU Style.
2. Sally Student has been asked to summarize a passage from her PHI-105 textbook. In your own words, what is a summary? (Your response should be between 25-50 words please.)
3. Summarize the following passage in 25-50 words:
From Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail":
"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation" (King, 1963, para. 6).
4. Write a paragraph interpreting the meaning of the passage taken from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail": (Your response should be at least 100 words in length please.)
"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation" (King, 1963, para. 6).
5. Based on the guidelines for the first essay assignment and the assigned readings for this week, what is a rhetorical analysis? What does it mean to analyze a text? (Your response should be between 50-100 words please.)
Reference
King, M. L. (1963). Letter from a Birmingham Jail.