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What is an evaluation? An evaluation provides validation for the quality or lack of quality for a particular item, product, book movie, etc. You will judge something according to certain criteria, supporting it with reasons and evidence. Key Features of an evaluation Criteria: You need to determine clear criteria as the basis for your judgement. What criteria do you look for or expect when choosing what restaurant to dine? What criteria do you use when choosing a movie to watch? Judgement: Based on the criteria you developed, has it been met? Evidence: Supports the judgement. Evaluation Essay/Final Exam Requirements: Introduction (1 paragraph 7-10): include your thesis statement/judgement of the topic. Describe what you are evaluating.    Body paragraphs (4-5 or more): supporting details that support the thesis statement and a topic sentence for each paragraph. In the body of an evaluation essay, you will offer evidence to support your judgments. Each criteria should include evidence to support why you made this judgment about the subject. Each body paragraph should focus on a specific criteria. Conclusion (1 paragraph 5-7 sentences): Conclude by summarizing the main points you have made. End with a recommendation for what you are evaluating. Restate your judgment. Minimum essay requirements: should be 750 words (roughly 3 pages) https://www.nytimes.com/section/books https://www.nytimes.com/section/movies https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/

Please edit this and make it more tailored to the following topic as much as possible.  Topic: Nature documentary and True-Life films and/or Disneynature films Working bibliography should feature sources about nature documentaries in general. These sources may not mention Disney’s films at all, but they will be helpful in developing theory about the genre in general. The bibliography must be 20 secondary sources in length. You discovered a lot sources concerning Disneyland, with Disneyland in the title. By comparison, research on the True-Life films won’t produce the same dearth of results directly about the True-Life films. But there are sources about nature documentaries, Disney’s attention to conservation and environmentalism, and the Animal Kingdom at WDW. Similarly, there won’t be a lot of sources directly about Our Friend the Atom save for Mark Langer’s work and a few others. But what are you really studying here but the division between education and propaganda? So some of your sources will concern the nature of propaganda as well as nuclear power plants, and maybe concerning Disney and Tomorrowland and the Technology. Consider the book-length and article work by JP Telotte on this matter. The good nature films really concern the stereotype and representation of latinos in film. So you will need to broaden your focus in types of sources.    Further research should be primarily conducted through the databases you have become familiar with. I recommend Academic Search Complete, Research Library ProQuest, and JSTOR, although there are many others. Consider the subject you are researching. If your topic concerns film/cinema, you should pay close attention to literary databases. This is really the purpose of these bibliographical assignments–to practice serious scholarly research. In part you need to redirect your attention from Google to college and university databases. This is expected in serious collegiate work.    Follow these rules precisely: Begin with proper MLA heading. Provide a title that states the topic, followed by the words “A Working Bibliography”  So if my topic concerned ethical treatment of social robots , my title would be this: Ethics and Social Robots: A Working Bibliography Double space the entire document uniformly. Do not number, letter, or bullet the entries. List entries alphabetically according to author’s last name as you would for a Works Cited page. Use a hanging indentation. Bibliographical entries must adhere to the 8th edition MLA Handbook.  – Articles in Scholarly Journals  (more articles than books) – Articles in Book Collections – Books Consider this a check-list to cover before you submit your bibliography.  ·        What is the topic of your third essay? Put that topic in your title before : A Working Bibliography. ·        Abbreviate URLs and Disconnect links. ·        No Bold ·        Use hanging indentation. ·        List sources alphabetically. ·        End each entry with a period. ·        Uniformly double space—no more, no less.   ·        Italicize Titles of Magazines, Books, Journals, Websites, Blogs. ·        “Titles of Articles” must appear in quotation marks and must not be italicized. ·        Normalize capitalization for proper nouns and titles. No ALL CAPS except for acronyms like EBSCOhost, CEO, LGBTQ, CBS, and COVID. ·        Study MLA and work on sequence and appearance of information. ·        Missing information for your entries. ·        Eliminate duplicated or extraneous information. ·        Change font so everything is 12 pt. Times New Roman. ·        Be sure to use the databases on the MtSAC library webpage (Links to an external site.).  ·        Eliminate fiction and primary sources. Do not list the films themselves.    The following are examples of common types of sources for these bibliographies and essays: I am unable to use a hanging indentation in Canvas, so assume that following would have hanging indentations.  A Book Ferguson, Niall. Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. Penguin, 2004.   An Article in a Book Collection Crosby, Alfred W. “Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon.” The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Environmental History, edited by Donald Worster, Cambridge UP, 1991, pp. 103-117.   An Article in a Scholarly Journal, Database Moses, Dirk A. “An Antipodean Genocide?: The Origins of the Genocidal Moment in the Colonization of Australia.” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 2, no. 1, March 2000, pp. 89-106. JSTOR.   Articles on Websites Dwyer, Colin. “Amid Protests, Christopher Columbus Statues Take Flak in Boston and Richmond, Va.” NPR, 10 June 2020, www.npr.org.   “The Causes of Climate Change.” NASA Global Climate Change, climate.nasa.gov.

Instructions: After reading the LUMEN lesson “The Qualities of Good Research” and watching the video “Choosing a Management Research Topic” and the modules readings/videos in unit 2, look ahead to the module essay prompt. Identify a potential research topic for the essay and brainstorm around the items in the list below. Then, identify which one or two of the items from your brainstorm you will consider for your essay topic, and why/how they are manageable topics. Include your brainstormed ideas for all five items, and a paragraph summary of your brainstorm, potential essay topics, and supporting reasons. Narrowing a Topic – Brainstorm: A single event A specific group A limited time period One cause or effect One argument or viewpoint

How is your reading of The Crucible going so far? What do you think of the play? Is it compelling, boring, horrifying, or mildly interesting? Please tell us your feelings about the clarity of the writing, the messages you’re picking up on so far, the characters, the era, or anything else about the on which you want to comment.

Critically analyze “A Raisin in the Sun”. Explain how A Raisin in the Sun is a modern tragedy. Consider the setting of the story and the historical context in which the characters are living. Look at how the characters try to succeed and persevere, does each one exhibit a tragic flaw of sorts? Is this Walter Lee’s story or something larger? Try to use terminology relating to the Tragedy form made popular with the ancient Greek plays.

Write a book review of John W. Dower’s War Without Mercy book (1,000-1,200 words). Your review must include a description of the organization and contents of the book, its thesis, and your critical evaluation of how successful Dower is in achieving his goals and in persuading you of the thesis. What are strengths and weaknesses of the book? In the review, you must demonstrate your familiarity of the contents. Support your analysis with evidence from the reading and give appropriate page references if you quote passages or cite ideas/information. Your review must have a creative/thoughtful title. It must have at least 1,000 words. Your review must avoid using collective terms such as “the Japanese” and “the Americans” unless you are quoting from the reading. Citations must follow the “notes and bibliography” format of The Chicago Manual of Style. Latest print versions of the Chicago Manual can be found in most WMU University Libraries reference collections (Z53.C57). Quick, short printable, and full online versions are available on the University Libraries website. (Go to www.wmich.edu/library/research then click on Writing Guides and Chicago Manual of Style.)

Here’s what I want you to do: To complete this exercise, explore the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) located at this link: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/ and search for the career you want to pursue. Once you have found the career you want to pursue, answer the following questions: What is your career goal? (List the definition of the occupation and cite your source using MLA format) What is the educational requirement for your career goal? (List the degree: for example, Master’s degree) What is the annual median salary of your career goal? (List the annual salary, if available. If the annual salary is not listed, provide an estimate based on the information you find on the OOH site. What are two pros and two cons about your career choice? (Write at least two sentences about each pro and con) Here’s why I want you to do it: The Goals Essay asks you to research your career goal and create a plan in five paragraphs, detailing the necessary steps you need to take in order to achieve this goal. This Essay Building Exercise will help you start your Goals Essay Draft, which is due in Weeks 5 (Rough Draft) and 7 (Final Draft).

Assignment: Identify a culture or perhaps some cultural phenomena, then compare and contrast both insider and outsider perspectives, discussions, and explanations of that culture or cultural phenomena; in addition to comparing outsider and insider perspective you will also engage in a cause-and-effect analysis of that culture or some of its practices.  Your outsider-perspective analysis must include the theories, concepts, and studies present in Clash!. In addition to the theories presented in Clash!, you may include other theories discovered through your own research. But make sure that your essay makes use of the concepts from Clash!, concepts such as the culture cycle, dependence/interdependence, and any other areas of cultural analysis explored in Clash! that are relevant to your essay. For example, if you were to explore Southern California surfing culture, your essay would likely benefit from utilizing the analysis of U.S. regional cultures found in Chapter 6 of Clash!.  In addition to the outsider perspective found in Clash! and other academic sources you find relevant, your essay must use an insider source. An insider source is the product of a native or natives of that culture. Novels, poetry, music, movies, visual and/or digital arts, interviews, academic work from natives to that culture, as well as other sources may serve as insider perspectives. Academic discourse often favors the outside expert’s point of view. For example, if you were to explore female genital mutilation, you would likely hear many voices from outsiders, most of whom would likely be, understandably, critical of the practice. However, in this assignment, an essay that only explored this outsider position would be incomplete. You must go further and find insider voices, people for whom the practice is natural and normal, or at least those who have experienced it firsthand. Then, through comparison and contrast of these perspectives and cause-and-effect analysis, arrive at a more thorough exploration of your chosen culture or cultural phenomena/phenomenon.  Length and Formatting: 6-7 pages (not including works cited page). Follow MLA conventions for academic writing: In general, 1-inch margins all around, 12-point MLA-approved font (Times New Roman if uncertain), double-spaced, page number and last name in upper right-hand header (.5” from the top). Sources: You will need at least four sources. We will discuss different types of sources and their appropriate use. Among your sources you must include:  ·       Clash! ·       One insider source of your choosing ·       One multimedia source representing insider perspective ·       One additional academic article accessed through our college databases This assignment challenges us to find authority outside traditional institutions. Consequently, it may be challenging to determine whose voice is authoritative on a given subject. For example, a paper exploring the issue of sexual violence facing Native American women on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation would want to look at the work of sociologists, anthropologists, and similar experts dealing with this issue; however, it would be necessary to listen to those who are directly affected by this phenomenon — the survivors. Finding these unmediated insider voices can be more challenging. For this half of your research you may use social media posts like Instagram and Twitter; visual media such as TV, movies, photography, and paintings; novels, poetry, or essays; as well as interviews with native participants, which you may conduct yourself.  Organization: The dominant rhetorical mode of this assignment is compare/contrast (and perhaps some synthesis) and cause and effect. There are a couple of ways to organize a compare-and-contrast essay. One method is whole-to-whole while the other is part-to-part. We will talk about the specifics of each of these. You will need to decide what method is most appropriate for your topic. Also, your essay will benefit from use of our previously studied rhetorical modes.  The Purpose: This is a research assignment (blended with some cultural analysis and perhaps a little psychology or economics or biology, depending on the direction of your exploration and your own areas of interest) designed to help you practice the research and the higher-order analysis waiting for you at the university level. Potential Areas of Focus: Broad areas of consideration in which you may find more specific topics are family, friends, love, marriage, work, leisure, education, class, food, medicine, sex, death, art, religion, migration, drugs, technology, individualism, collectivism, war — basically the entirety of human experience.  For example, if you chose to explore the veneration of the cow in Hindu culture, you would next need to find sources that explore cow veneration from both insider and outsider perspectives and consider the following questions: How are these perspectives in conflict with one another? Can these two perspectives be reconciled? How are these perspectives in agreement? How does looking at this phenomenon from both perspectives lead to a richer and fuller understanding of the issue?

1.      The written component: this portion is a written portion; it will involve addressing the issues/questions that are guidelines found at the end of this sheet.                                              THE POEMS ARE: Luisa A. Igloria “Regarding History,”  Theodore Roethke “My Papa’s Waltz,” and Tony Hoagland “What Narcissism Means To Me”  1.      Gut Reactions to the works: This section is not about facts, objective analysis or even interpreting the abstract. This is all about the first impression and gut reactions you specifically had upon the first reading of the works. Did you maintain that first impression after you spent time with the work and re-read again?                                                                 2.   Connection: What connects the works? This is important!! YOU MUST COME TO AN AGREEMENT ABOUT THE CONNECTIONS. As a group, you will have to explore a.      Content: common denominators that link the works together? There is no instructor’s key here regarding what you “should” find.  Be open to the idea that these works may not have ever been explored together in this way. b.      Writing styles of the authors and stylistic qualities (hint: formalist analysis) c.       This is the MEAT of the grade of the written component. It also forms the basis of your digital presentation 2.      What ideas emerge in the texts of in their comparisons? This asks you discuss the abstract components – the theme and ideas of the works. Your job is to use inferences and examples to make a case for the existence of the abstract ideas that you see in the works. Each work contains some abstract components – identify it, discuss it at length, interpret it and argue against or for what the author is suggesting in this ideological, philosophical, political or spiritual assertions.   3.      What did you find profound, difficult to accept, ironic, shocking, or generally challenging about the works? This can be about content or form. What surprised you?   4.      –What do these readings remind you of? Which movies? Visual art? Music? Other literary works? What do you associate with these readings? What else have you personally read, seen or heard that relates to these readings? Be selective – think outside the box here. -Which of the readings was best – and WHY? If your classmates could find the time to read one of these works, which one? And Why? Why should college students in general read it?  Writing hint: Do not organize your paper by poem. Do not organize your paper by the seven issues listed above. Either of these structures will result in a failing grade on the paper. Organize your paper by the issues and connections between the poems. If you need help with this, please let me know. More groups fail the paper because they do not pay attention to this paragraph.    k

Instructions Discuss your responses to the statements below concerning the components of an effective teacher of reading: For each of the eight balanced literacy principles for becoming an effective teacher of reading, summarize the principle, explain the importance of the principle, and describe how you would implement the principle using an instructional example within your balanced literacy classroom. Here are the 8 principles:  Principle 1: Effective teachers understand how students learn. Principle 2: Effective teachers support students’ use of the cueing systems. Principle 3: Effective teachers create a community of learners. Principle 4: Effective teachers adopt a balanced approach to instruction. Principle 5: Effective teachers scaffold students’ reading and writing. Principle 6: Effective teachers organize for literacy instruction. Principle 7: Effective teachers differentiate instruction. Principle 8: Effective teachers link instruction and assessment. Explain what it means to be an effective teacher of reading. Length: 5–7 pages, not including the title and reference pages