In unit 2 of our course, we have read 5 argumentative texts. For your second essay, your job will be to perform a compare/contrast rhetorical analysis in which you choose two thematically related texts and illustrate their differing rhetorical approaches.

The thematic pairs of texts are as follows:

Mary Wollstonecraft and Michael Kimmel writing about the need to rethink gender norms/roles
James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. writing about the need to address Americas racial inequalities
Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. writing about the necessity of disobeying unjust laws.
Prompt:
Perform a rhetorical analysis of your two selected texts, explicating and illustrating each authors rhetorical approach and emphasizing the similarities and differences between them.

Organization:
Introduction Paragraph
Begin by introducing your two selected authors and their texts and indicating the rhetorical situation surrounding each text. Give very brief context for each author/text, at least locating them historically in relation to one another and indicating the historical context in which they were written. Who is each authors intended audience? What, in brief, are they writing about? End your introduction with a thesis statement in which you concisely indicate the significant differences between the rhetorical approaches of each author. Your thesis should include an evaluation, but it does not need to choose a “winner.” See the examples below

Example Thesis statements
Sample thesis statement without a “winner”: While both authors make compelling arguments against racial segregation, Baldwin does so primarily through emotional appeal, while King appeals logically and with his credibility.

Sample thesis statement with a “winner”:  Even though Wollstonecraft’s logical approach makes her argument compelling, she does not make the appropriate emotional appeals to her audience, shaming them in a way that is unlikely to help her cause. Kimmel, on the other hand, through subtle appeals to fear and pity, along with a strong inductive approach, makes a more persuasive case.

Body of Essay
Develop the body of your essay with several paragraphs illustrating your thesis. Your body should follow a subject-by-subject or a point-by-point organization, or a hybrid of the two. The body of your essay should contain at least 4 quotations, two from each author, and analysis that clearly indicates the similarities and differences between the authors strategies. Whether you use a subject-by-subject or a point-by-point organization, your essay will most likely have 6 body paragraphs. This number is not a requirement, but a recommendation based on the two ways of organizing this essay that we covered in this module.Preview the document If you are using a hybrid organization, you may have a different number of paragraphs.

Conclusion
Conclude with a brief summary, followed by a so what statement. Tell your audience why a rhetorical analysis of your chosen authors should matter to them. How can this exercise help us to be more attentive/responsive to issues of gender/race/injustice? Again, we have not spent much time talking about conclusions, so don’t worry too much about them. Just take a stab at it.

Requirements
1000 words minimum
Minimum of 4 quotations, 2 from each text
MLA format, including a works cited page and proper in-text citations
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Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

You have been given the opportunity to create a detailed job description for your job, a former job, or a job you would like to move into.

1) Based on what you know about a job analysis, employment laws, and safe working environments, include the following categories:
a.Job overview 
b.Responsibilities and duties 
c.Qualifications 

(Dr. Vics Tips:  After reading and reviewing all the information from the LEARN area within the Week 3 tab all the chapters and video. You will want to also research the common and even legal portions of a typical job posting look at several job postings to determine these common and even legal portions. Really review the Job Overview, Responsibilities and Duties and, Qualifications areas of your example job postings to notice and learn these areas from a real-life perspective. Please do not plagiarize your job description, it needs to be something you wrote for the job you have selected to write about from your current or past experience.

2) Explain how you determined the duties and qualifications for the job and which laws were considered when creating the job description.

(Dr. Vics Tips:  please list elements of labor laws pertinent to the position such as, and for example: the FLSA, EEOA and Equal Pay Acts, etc.). Again, also, review all the information from the LEARN area within the Week 3 tab.

This assignment should be 23 pages and accurately reflect an actual job description in the workplace today.

NOTE: This assignment will be used as a basis for the remaining assignments in the course. Make sure you take this into consideration when doing the work for this assignment. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.