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Omotoyosi Odukomiaya [email protected] ENGLISH 102 UNIT 1: Review Reviews are documents that educate readers about the quality of products they might purchase, performances they might attend, or places they might visit. Typically, this genre offers up the writer’s opinion about the subject while attempting to persuade the audience members to assign it a certain value. To be persuasive, this essay will need to be grounded in explicit evaluative criteria and supporting evidence that provides the audience with a framework by which to judge the reliability of the author’s assessment. For an audience of university students, you will review a product, performance, or place relevant to the course theme. Examples might include a technological device, book, lecture, film, concert, and so on. At some point in your English 102 Review, you will want to provide a summary or description of the subject and then establish the criteria by which you will evaluate it, addressing whether it meets expectations for other products, performances, or places of its kind. SUGGESTED PAGE-LENGTH AND FORMAT: 4-5 double-spaced pages, MLA format, 12-pt. font, 1” margins GENRE: Review SUGGESTED READINGS: Read, Reason, Write Chapter 3: “Understanding the Basics of Argument” Chapter 8: “Evaluation Arguments” Chapter 9: “The Position Paper: Claims of Values” Acting Out Culture

Theme Introduction (based on your course section) Theme Rule Maker/Rule Breaker (based on your course section) p. 2: “Norms, Scripts, Roles, Rules: Analyzing Popular Culture” pp. 4-5: “How Culture Shapes Us” p. 6: “The World in Words” pp. 7-10: “Guided Reading and Response” p. 89: “Understanding Visuals”

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REVIEW GUIDELINES A successful Review will  demonstrate understanding and knowledge of audience expectations;  state an evaluative thesis which articulates the focus of the essay;  contain a title and introduction that promise to capture the audience’s interest;  contain an effective summary or description of the object under review;  evaluate the item using examples and comparisons to form judgment;  contain effective transitions between sentences, paragraphs, and larger sections;  demonstrate knowledge of Standard American English and be free from mechanical, grammatical, and usage errors.

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