Purpose
This assignment provides an opportunity for you to think carefully about the rhetorical situation for your first major writing project, the Be Interested Project. Practicing the skills of rhetorical writing will help you develop creative habits of the mind. This assignment supports our course goal: Develop strategies to write rhetorically.
Task
Think carefully about the various elements that you will need to know before you begin to write the Be Interested project. You’ll need to identify your guiding question, your purpose for writing, your specific audience, and your chosen genre. These choices you make will determine how you approach writing your project.
Complete the Situation Plan form Download Situation Plan formby answering all of the questions thoroughly so that you have a clear idea of what you will write, to whom you will target your writing, how you will present your writing, and why you are writing in the first place.
What I expect is thoroughly focused writing, showing that you are engaged in thinking critically about the questions that will guide your construction of the Be Interested Project.
Format
Complete the form using full sentences and thoughtful responses
Criteria
I will evaluate your completion of this One Page Write using the following elements:
Your writing indicates a thoughtful, specific, and critical response to each of the questions in the form
You followed directions
The Situation Plan form is submitted on time
I need to complete the the situation plan form. I put in in the files. My topic is: Why haven’t we explored the ocean like outer space? I don’t need sources.