Reminder: 1 the book i need to read is ” born a crime” please make sure you have carefully read your memoir and the other text I provided and that you have fully considered the different viewpoints and evidence.

2 please noticed that you only can use the quotes from “born a crime” when discussing the other readings, they must be paraphrases or summaries.

3 do not use the outside sources. must following the essay prompt

4.Before getting start , thinking those questions 1.You will have to choose which character(s) you want to focus on(The character I choose is Trevor Noah ). Keep in mind that it’s better to focus on one and analyze this character deeply. But, if you feel the need, you may analyze more than one.

2.What is “success” to them?

3.Did this person succeed?

4.What were the obstacles that this character face throughout the memoir?

5.What concepts help you understand why the character was able to succeed

or not?

Essay 4 at a Glance

Essay 4 is your chance to use everything we have learned this semester to write an excellent essay. Here’s your chance to show the skills you have developed in carefully reading and understanding texts and making connections among the ideas in multiple texts to discuss the message your memoir makes about success and response to adversity. This will require that you continue to choose strong specific examples from the text and explain your analytical connections to readers.

Main Goals for Essay 4

• Focus your essay with a strong thesis statement that makes a claim about how your chosen memoir message that shows the factors that affect an individual(s) to succeed and how it helps them respond to adversity, and states the reasons for that claim (your “because” statement).
• Provide effective and developed support for your claim by summarizing/paraphrasing the ideas from the texts we have read this semester and your memoir to analyze your memoir’s message.
• Critically analyze the ideas in the text to make a claim about your memoir’s message, and explain this analysis to readers.
• Create organized paragraphs that focus on one main point and divide your argument into manageable chunks for your readers

Prompt for Essay 4

For your final essay assignment, you will be analyzing your memoir through the many ideas related to success we have read this semester. Your essay should focus on making a claim about the overall message of the memoir based on what we have learned about the different ways in which people are able to succeed, how people deal with external obstacles (i.e. family, race, gender issues), and how people respond to adversity in order to succeed.

In coming up with your essay’s focus, I encourage you to think about all that you’ve learned in the texts we’ve read this semester. Your essay must use three (3) of the following sources:

• “The Significance of Grit” by Deborah Perkins-Gough and Angela Duckworth
• “Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn” by Carol Dweck
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Chapter 1
• “The Threat of Stereotypes” by Joshua Aronson http://bhssnell.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/9/8/5098492…
• Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing: “The rhetorical and twenty-first century skills as well as habits of mind and experiences critical for college success.”

Remember to consider the grey areas and to think about the complexities in both your memoir and other texts, and in your essay, be sure to include:

• Support for your argument with relevant ideas, information, and quotations from your memoir. Note: You can have quotes from your memoir, but when discussing the other readings, they must be paraphrases or summaries.

Notes:

• Show that you have carefully read your memoir and the other text this semester and that you have fully considered the different viewpoints and evidence.
• Show you are really thinking about the topic—these are complex ideas, so don’t settle for easy answers.
• Write so that someone who is not in our class could understand it. Assume your audience has not read any these texts.
• Write at least 6 complete pages, typed, 12 point font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins.

STEP 1: Identify a common measurable goal. This can be a goal you are already working on at work, at school, or at home. You should be able to accomplish this goal within two weeks (or a sub-goal if you are working on a longer-term goal) during Weeks 4 and 5 of this course.

Here are some examples of common goals you may decide to work on:

• Organizing a room in a home or apartment.
• Cooking a new dish or elaborate meal.
• Creating an art project (e.g., mural, sculpture, drawing, etc.).
• Putting together a crowdfunding idea.
• A project at work you have to complete.
• A virtual party or get together.
• Planning a safe social event.
• A health or fitness goal.
• A plan for staying connected with someone.
• An environmental clean-up project in your community.
• Volunteer efforts such as a book drive, food drive, etc.

STEP 2: Identify the other 2–4 members of your group and how you will work together. You may work with family members, friends, classmates, co-workers, or anyone else you will be able to collaborate with during this time period. Collaboration can be accomplished in-person, on the phone, through a virtual meeting space like Zoom, or through other collaborative tools like Google Docs. Make a plan for how your team will collaborate and what each person’s role and responsibilities will be.

STEP 3: Download the Group Project Plan Document and complete all sections.

• Provide clear and comprehensive documentation of the common goal the team has completed.
• Describe team process, including each person’s role and responsibilities and how these were established.
• Identify collaborative tools (or potential tools used) and explain how they supported (or would support) work towards a common goal, with specific examples.
• Describe 2–3 effective collaborative approaches and how they were used by the group to accomplish the team’s goal, including concrete examples.
• Describe challenges and opportunities for improvement in collaborative teamwork, including specific examples.

What to submit/deliverables: A completed Reflection on Collaborative Strategies in Meeting a Common Goal.

What is the value of doing this assignment? This assignment gives you the opportunity to practice your relationship building skill, further developing your interpersonal interactions and collaboration techniques. It will show that you can collaborate with others to resolve a problem and work toward a common goal.

Almost every job application lists communication as a requirement. We’ve all had experiences—whether on the playground, over text, or in a parent-teacher conference—where we know we could have communicated more clearly and effectively. This assignment asks you to use what you’ve learned in the course about interpersonal interaction, collaborating in small groups, and responding in the workplace to complete a common goal and reflect on the collaborative approaches used. Worried about where to start? The good news is that you’ve already established a foundation with these skills by reading Chapters 2, 5, and 20 in The Art of Public Speaking. You will use what you learned in those chapters to help you complete this assignment.

Your goal for this assignment is to: Complete a common goal with a team and reflect on the collaborative strategies and approaches used.

What you need to complete this assignment: To complete this assignment, you will need the following resources:

• Assignment Overview Video.
• Reflection on Collaborative Strategies in Meeting a Common Goal Template.

STEP 1: Document your progress and outcome of the common goal your team worked together on. This can be in the form of a picture, document, or other evidence of meeting the goal you set.

STEP 2: Download the Reflection on Collaborative Strategies in Meeting a Common Goal Template and complete all sections.

Your report should adhere to the following:

1. Social Problem Case Study Analysis. You will select a specific social problem from “real life” and apply several course concepts through which you will analyze and explain that problem. Research for this option should contextualize the historical and political background of the social problem as well as increase your knowledge about the chosen course concepts. Further, you will also use the course concepts to make recommendations, based on course readings, about what type of communication intervention you would design to alleviate, resolve, or nuance our understandings of this social problem. Questions to consider: What is the social problem? What cultural group or speech community is affected by this social problem? How does power and context play a role in this social problem? This is a research assignment and thus, you should aim for four (4) academic sources to supplement our course readings. In other words, you need four (4) academic sources in addition to our readings and textbook.
2. MY SELECTED SOCIAL PROBLEM TO ANALYZE IS POLICE BRUTALITY

• 4-5 double spaced pages formatted in Times New Roman, 12 pt font
• a References page with APA, MLA, or Chicago citations (please choose only one format and stay consistent throughout your paper)
• an Introduction section that provides a description of your topic, the questions you will answer in the paper, the focus of the paper, and a preview of the rest of the paper

• a body that includes a discussion of the question that have been detailed under each option, a discussion of the articles related to your topic, and how those articles contribute to your understanding of the topic. You will do this by quoting from the scholarly texts you use
• a conclusion that summarizes your research, what you learned about culture, and why you think this topic is important to the study of intercultural communication
• five course concepts, at minimum, must be used throughout your paper. Each concept should be defined and applied correctly in your essay