The goal of this exercise is to produce a revised formal draft of your first essay. To produce your formal draft, you will extensively revise and develop your zero draft using ideas from class and suggestions provided in my feedback.

Estimated time: 2-3 hours
Due by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, February 20th

Assignment

1. Review the guidelines for the Rhetorical Analysis Essay and the guidelines for naming and formatting essay drafts detailed in the course syllabus.
2. Create a compelling title for your formal draft, one that would intrigue and inform your intended audience of freshmen readers.
3. In one paragraph, write an introduction for your formal draft that briefly identifies the problems that freshmen readers (i.e. the imagined audience for your essay) likely encounter when first reading “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).” End this first paragraph with your thesis, which should explanation Cohen’s intended audience and his stance towards his audience and topic.
4. In one paragraph, offer a revised summary of “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).” Ensure that you define what Cohen means by the term “monster.”
5. List, in one paragraphs, the difficult but important writing or rhetorical patterns in “Monster Culture” that could help another freshmen better understand the intended audience of Cohen’s essay (e.g. references to other scholars, the extensive use of endnotes, advanced vocabulary, technical or specialized terminology, historical examples, examples of monsters from a wide range of cultures, etc.). End this paragraph by explaining why analyzing such writing or rhetorical patterns is a logical way to understand the essay.
6. Introduce and carefully analyze two writing or rhetorical patterns over the next few paragraphs. For each pattern, you must analyze two specific examples following the guidelines for rhetorical analysis introduce in our last class: http://collegewritingmonsters.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/2018/02/15/in-class-writing-analyzing-a-rhetorical-pattern/. Use MLA style to correctly cite the page and Thesis where your examples are located. Refer to the course textbook for help with this.
7. Include a Works Cited list on a separate page using MLA style. Refer to the course textbook for help with this.
8. Include a one-paragraph self-evaluation on a separate page in which you briefly discuss to what extent you think your intended audience (freshman readers) would find your essay clear and insightful. Also, explain what else you will still like to work on as you continue to revise your draft.
9. Name your Word document as explained in the course syllabus and then submit it to https://www.dropbox.com/request/FvMXFHt19b0Moz5ps1k1.