Paper 1 Samples: Account & Analysis

• A solid sample paper that examines Gladwell's "Small Change."  
• 2 sample drafts from 2009 that provide an account and analysis of Stephen Pinker's "The Morality Instinct." The first paper is fairly good, the second weaker.
• Sample student papers (drafts - they use text by Chua), and more sample drafts from Fall '09

Paper 2 Samples: The Sources Assignment

• A strong final sources paper from spring 2010 that analyzes Gladwell's book Outliers. The paper discusses Gladwell's claim that Asian math success is attributable to the "cultural legacy" of rice farming. The paper explains Gladwell's claim and considers other texts that can be used to extend and complicate Gladwell's argument.
• A sample draft that analyzes the movie Food Inc. "In this paper I will use outside texts including “How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor” by Ford C. Runge and Benjamin Senauer, “Gain for Winfrey in Suit By Beef Producers in Texas” by Sam Howe Verhovek, and “Veggie Libel” by Ronald K.L. Collins to clarify and extend claims presented in Food Inc. I will use Runge and Senauer’s article to extend the claim that the heavy reliance on corn leads to a fragile food system in America. I will then clarify the Oprah Winfrey case that relates to the “veggie libel laws” using Verhovek’s article. Lastly, I will extend the claim that it is unjust that Americans can be sued for criticizing their food through Collins’s article."

Sample Paper 3: The Rhetorical Strategies Assignment

• Sample rhetorical analysis paper.  Solid analysis of strategies in Anderson's Confessions of a Radical Industrialist. Focuses on ethos and pathos. 
• This is an example of the second half of the assignment, the "creative project." Students were asked to compose a text that reworked or responded to some part of the documentary First to Worst. This student made a trailer for the documentary, and did a nice job selecting video, layering audio, etc.
• Reusable revolution - anime done for Karen Malfara's fall 2010 class http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnt9YJ-VCe4
• Imagined interview of Anderson for younger audience - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNj8GPnCNCs