Category: English

Pick a topic listed on the Unit 1 Essay Assignment sheet Create an outline for your paper. Make sure you include your thesis statement and your Introductory paragraph Your outline can take whatever form you want it to, so long as you indicate what you’re writing about. You can use Roman numerals, bullet points, etc.…

You will compose a piece of epideictic rhetoric, praising or blaming a person. YOU ARE TO PRAISE THE PERSON!!! That person can be anyonefamily member or friend, living or dead, famous or relatively unknown. You will probably find it easier to write an essay that praises your subject rather than blames him/her, but you are…

Thesis Statement DiscussionDiscussion Prompt After reviewing the instructions and topics for the upcoming Post your thesis statement for the upcoming essay. The thesis MUST make an interpretive claim about the literary work (answer the question in the posted topics). The focus of the thesis will be what you believe to be the story’s message. Don’t…

Next, write a reflection on your experience receiving feedback from the online tutor. FIRST, identify whether you met with a local Ivy Tech writing tutor or a writing tutor at brainfuse.com. Then, write a brief paragraph summarizing the session. After that, answer as many of the following questions as appropriate: What worked well? What could…

Prompt – Write a review of a specific film, book, TV series, podcast, play, or video game that you think contributes something significant to the genre and to the culture at large. Show how the subjectthe primary sourceof your review illustrates something compelling or exceptional about a particular idea or theme common to the genre.…

1) Choose a lyric poem that is of great value to you — could be a ‘classical’ poem that’s been anthologized multiple times, like a Shakespearean sonnet; could be a poem from a particular poet that you really like; could be favorite song lyrics. 2) Explain why your chosen poem/lyric is of value/ consider perhaps,…

1) Choose a lyric poem that is of great value to you — could be a ‘classical’ poem that’s been anthologized multiple times, like a Shakespearean sonnet; could be a poem from a particular poet that you really like; could be favorite song lyrics. 2) Explain why your chosen poem/lyric is of value/ consider perhaps,…

For this essay, you will choose a scholarly writing from an academic journal (or, book, dissertation, etc.) and analyze the author’s thesis as well as their writing style. The writing should focus on mythical or magical beings in some capacity. The following should be included in your essay: 1.) a summary of the author’s main…

Using Critical Reading Completion requirements Opened: Sunday, February 1, 2026, 12:00 AM Due: Sunday, February 15, 2026, 11:59 PM This assignment is designed to help you practice the strategies for responding to a text outlined in this module. Rather than writing a formal essay, you will complete a structured response that walks you through the…

Unit 1 Paper: Narrative Essay Full and complete rough draft due by 11:55 p.m. on 2/13 Final paper due by 11:55 p.m. on 2/27 Page length: 4-5 pages, double-spaced (Use of AI is NOT permitted) In the readings for Unit 1, our authors discuss what exactly they enjoy about their field of study. Sacks narrates…