At a Glance

After reading over my paper I found some key critical mistakes.  Grammatical Errors and formatting errors were scattered throughout the paper.  I made my own feedback sheet on my paper giving myself critiquing points of things I could do better on my next draft.  I compared these to the peer reviews that were given to me.  I tried to look for different things that my group may have missed.  Reading it aloud helped when a sentence didn't make sense because hearing it out loud opened up my other senses to mistakes.  Overall my own review was very productive and it is going to help me write my next draft.  After getting back my rough draft that was taken up in class I realized more formatting errors in the paper.  I need to make sure my paper runs a little better and has a more organized flow.  Transition statements will be key in making sure that the flow of the paragraphs is good and will strengthen my argument.  

Multimedia Assignment

I think the multimedia assignment would be the easiest if it was a short film.  It would be the most creative and easy to work with along being on hands.  It would be the easiest to come up with ideas for the film.  It would be useful because it can be put onto the internet through youtube and reach a large audience.  It would also be easy to show the class and they could get into it.  Compared to a podcasts it is more creative because you have to incorporate visual aids just as much as dialogue in the film.  

Questions:

1.  What thematic elements could you add to the film to improve it

2.  What controversial issue will be potrayed

Research Paper Outline

Philip Sobash           

Research Paper Outline

March 3, 2009

Amy Jessee

 

Illegal Immigration and its effects in the U.S.

 

I.               Introduction

A.   “Hook” Statement- A story about illegal immigration and how it personally affected someone.

B.    Facts and Figures

1.  Statistics

C.    Background Information

1.     How we got here

2.     What events led to this

D.   Thesis Statement:  Illegal Immigration is a problem usually swept under the rug by many people in the United States.  People exploit the weak border in order to get illegal workers to work for cheap.  This undermines what America is all about and is eventually going to ruin the capitalistic society in which we live today.

II.             Visual

A.   Show visual

 

1.     Describe visual

2.     Implications of the visual

3.     Forms of Rhetoric

III.           Facts and Figures

A.   Past Statistics

B.    Present Statistics

C.    Future Statistics

IV.           Personal Accounts

A.   First Hand Accounts

B.    Implications of Illegal Aliens

V.             Political differences on Immigration

A.   Conservative Views

B.    Liberal View

C.    Amnesty Act

1.     Problems

2.     Opinions on the matter

VI.           Problem solving

A.   Different Views on fixing the problem

B.    Money Costs invested in fixing the problem

C.    Troubles with correcting the problem

VII.         Conclusion

A.   Recap of Major Points

B.    Summary of paper

C.    Recap visuals