Rather than send these via email and have them get buried in your inbox, I’ll put the assignment instructions here. This is what you should complete before class on Monday, 2/8. All of this work is preparing you for the essay that you will write for next Wednesday.
Working with the examples of public health writing that you shared on our blog this week, respond to these two prompts as comments to your original post(s):
- explain the rhetorical situation of this text as best you can–addressing author, audience, purpose, context, exigence. Do this for at least 2 sample texts.
- explain (in specific terms) how the author uses research in this text–what role(s) does the source material play in this text. (Think here about our discussion in class today about the different ways that Hess employs research in her writing.) Do this for at least 2 sample texts.