Rhetoric and Media

Rhetoric and Media take advantage of the writing supports available to you, including CCT l 10’s dedicated writing instructor and the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre (http:/’/www.utm.utoronto.ca/asc/welcomef) as well as research support in the library. Details: 0 3-5 pages, double-spaced (includes bibliography, no title page necessary) Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1" margins No title page necessary. Please put your full name and student number on the top of your assignment, number your pages and STAPLE your assignment before submission 0 Spell-checked and proofread, free from typos All research used cited in APA style (including in-text citations, any mentions of scholars’ research, and your bibliography) Note that the bibliography is included in the page count for this assignment. CCT 110: Rhetoric and Media Winter 2016 Profs. Nicole Cohen and Michael Dick Assignments Overview - Three Assignments 1. Essay Plan and Bibliography - due January 28 15% 2. Thesis Statement and Introduction Draft - due February 11, 10% 3. Term Paper (with reflection) - due March 17, 25% Choose One Topic for All Three Assignments These are the same topics you worked on for writing assignment #4 in CCT 109 this past fall. You do not have to work on the same topic, but you must pick one topic to work with for all three assignments in CCT l 10. However, you are not allowed to reuse work you submitted for grading in CCT 109. You may use the same source material and build on the work you have done on this topic, but do not cut and paste, which constitutes an academic offence. Be sure to keep your graded copies of assignment #1 and assignment #2 to submit along with your term paper. Topic Options Participatory media systems and developments in the legal and economic treatment of cultural and informational goods Online social networking platforms and effects on social relationships 0 The relationship of user-generated content to the practice of journalism 0 The production of ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) and ecological sustainability New media and surveillance society 0 The social and cultural impact of mobile technologies Assignment Description: Select a topic for your final paper and construct a plan for your essay and a bibliography of sources you will use in your research. Answer the following questions in your essay plan (use the following five bold headings and numbers in your assignment to ensure you have included all the components): 1. Topic: State which topic you are selecting and describe what you know about this topic and what you plan to write about in your essay (include citations if you are drawing on research/scholars’ work). (1-2 paragraphs) 2. Research question: Design a research question based on your topic that you will answer in your term paper (what will your essay seek to find out?) Remember to keep your question specific and narrow enough to be answered in a S-page essay. See “Narrowing Your Topic and Formulating a Specific Research Question“ in Blau and Burak 4‘11 ed p. 405 (3rd ed. p. 405). This research question is the question that your thesis statement answers. 3. My plan: Describe what steps you need to undertake to write the term paper assigmnent (read the description of the assignment below). Think through the process of writing an essay in detail and describe all the steps you are going to take. This will be your “plan of action" for getting your term paper written: try to be as specific as you can and think about including deadlines for each step you need to do (up to l page). 4. Essay outline: Include an outline for your essay, based on the research you have already done and plan to do. For tips on essay outlines, see http2/,"www.writing.utoronto.ca/advicex'planning-and-organizing/organizing and httpszx'fwebuvic.ea/wguide/Pages,"EssayOrgOutStruet.html 5. Bibliography: Include a preliminary bibliography in APA style of 6 peer- rcvicwed, scholarly sources you will use for your essay. You may list the sources you used in writing assignment #4 in CC T 109, but you might find these are not relevant, in which case you should seek out more research as you refine your research question and narrow your topic. This assignment requires that you put work into conducting research (finding sources), reading the research and thinking about what your final paper will look like. For this assignment, you do not yet need to provide a specific thesis, but should be starting to think about one. This plan will be the foundation for your essay as you move toward writing your term paper and will allow your TA to provide you with feedback.