Minor Analysis Papers, Daily Homework, and Minor Persuasive Papers

Daily Assignment #1 (200-250 words):
In a single paragraph, first summarize very briefly (in a couple of sentences) what argument authors Graff and Birkenstein make about academic writing in the introduction to their text, They Say/I Say; then summarize very briefly (again, in a couple of sentences) what you take my argument to be about rhetoric in my Course Description of CMJR 320; and finally, in a few sentences, discuss what overlap might exist between their argument about academic writing and my argument about rhetoric. Please post to your blog before class, January 8th.