Overview
For this Written Response Assessment, you will pre-write using a specific pre-writing strategy of your choice. You will then use your pre-writing and all other available resources to demonstrate your ability to write coherent sentences and paragraphs by writing a paragraph at least 275 words in length related to a local community issue.
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Assessment Submission Length: One Pre-Writing Document and one 275-word paragraph.
Professional Skill: Information Literacy is assessed in this Competency.
This Assessment requires submission of two (2) documents, a Pre-Writing Document and a Paragraph. Follow the instructions below carefully to complete your Assessment.
Instructions
Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.
Rubric
Document 1: Pre-Writing
- Knowledge and ideas are valuable, but they are even more powerful when you can share them effectively. To do this, you need to write clearly and coherently. Start by asking yourself two key questions:
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- Why am I writing?
- For whom am I writing?
- Choose two social issues affecting your community that you care about. Social issues are problems that impact many people in a community or society; they often involve inequalities or conflicts related to social, economic, or political factors. Find out more about these issues, the people involved, and specific places where they happen by researching local news articles, local government projects, and scholarly sources.
- Brainstorm on your chosen topics and organize your research results using two or more of the pre-writing techniques below:
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- Mapping
- Outlining
- Freewriting
- Clustering
- Save your pre-writing work in a Word document and include it in your assessment submission.
- Study and complete the following:
- Write a 275-word paragraph that:
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- Explains why this issue is personally relevant to you.
- Incorporates detailed information from your research, explaining your selected issue and its impact on the community.
- Justifies why this issue is a strong candidate for a persuasive essay in EC1005.
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- Save the Pre-Writing file as EC1002_ prewriting_firstinitial_lastname (for example, EC1002_prewriting_J_Smith).
- Save the Paragraph file as EC1002_ paragraph_firstinitial_lastname (for example, EC1002_paragraph_J_Smith).
- You may submit a draft of your assignment to the Turnitin Draft Check area to check for authenticity.
- When you are ready to upload your completed Assessment, use the Assessment tab on the top navigation menu.