Write a memoir that examnies how your non-academic activities ( such as extracurricular , jobs and hobbies) have impacted your academic success

Write a memoir that examnies how your non-academic activities ( such as extracurricular , jobs and hobbies) have impacted your academic success


Writing Project #1: Memoir: Weeks 2-6 Page Requirement: 3-4 (900-1100 words) Due Dates:      Peer Edit 1-Tuesday Sept 20 (Please bring a hard copy to class) Draft for instructor review- Thursday, Sept 22 (Please turn in a hard copy in class) Final Draft – Tuesday, Oct 4 (Please upload a Word Document) Student Learning Outcomes related to this project: 1. Demonstrate rhetorical awareness of audience through different genre-based assignments. 2. Read texts in a variety of disciplines and genres, using critical reading strategies. 3. Draw connections at the level of ideas across multiple texts. 4. Defend a position in relation to the range of ideas surrounding a topic. 5. Demonstrate knowledge of writing as a process, including consideration of peer and instructor feedback, from initial draft to final revision. 6. Demonstrate sentence-level correctness. Resources: Purdue Owl: Memoir https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/teacher_and_tutor_resources/writing_instructors/creative_nonfiction_in_writing_courses/the_personal_memoir.html Readings- I Just Wanna Be Average by Mike Rose Published in Lives in the Boundary/ 1986 Available on BlackBoard Blue Collar Brilliance- by Mike Rose published in The American Scholar/ 2009 https://theamericanscholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/ The Extracurricular and Grades Published by the NYTimes/1997 https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/19/nyregion/the-extracurricular-and-grades.html How High School Ruined Leisure Published in the NYTimes/2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/sunday/college-admissions-extracurriculars.html Situation: The NYTimes is creating a special supplement about the transition from High School to College from a variety of perspectives. They have asked you to write a memoir that examines how your non-academic activities (such as extracurriculars, jobs, and hobbies) have impacted your academic success. Task: You should begin by understanding the expectations for a memoir, and your audience’s expectations. The memoir should have a point you are making, most likely more implicit than explicit, and use language appropriate to the readers of the NYTimes. The essay should be 9000-1100 words long and conform to accepted language norms for the audience. Remember that the NYTimes readers for this article will most likely include educators, parents, and students, typically from medium to higher socioeconomic brackets. While you will want to inform them of your experiences, you will not want to offend them. Evaluation Criteria: A successful memoir will: · Address the requested question. · Have a thesis/main point that is supported by the memoir and is meaningful to the audience. · Contextualize the story, so that the reader can understand its relationship to themselves and the broader community. · Show appropriate use of language, form, and detail to engage the reader and present the story in an engaging manner. · Present ideas and examples that demonstrate critical thinking about the writer’s experience. · Use organization that is effective in adding to the audience’s understanding. · Use appropriate verb forms while telling the story and providing analysis. · Use quotes/dialogue to enhance the sense of realness. · Use appropriate grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary to establish a sense of belief and trust in the audience.