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Module 7 - Possible essay prompts

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Prompt 1: Family values change as society changes.  As a result, ideas about how children should be raised change.

  • Write a letter to one of the following audiences in which you compare (and contrast) at least two of your ideas about raising children with a minimum of two ideas of the adult or adults who raised you.  You may address this letter to the editor of a parenting magazine, family pediatrician, or a teen-age son or daughter.
  • Revise the first two paragraphs of your letter by addressing one of the other two audiences.

What is this prompt asking you to do?

  • Write a letter to a particular audience
  • Compare (and contrast) two ideas
  • Revise the first two paragraphs for a different audience

 

 

CourseCompass Learning Resource
MyCompLab
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  • Writing Activities—Writing to Compare (write at least on practice essay)

    • MyCompLab writing activities are NOT instructor graded. Please contact the LCE1 Mentor if you would like to discuss your practice essays.  You may also submit your practice essays (NOT THE MODULE 7 prompts) to the PEER REVIEW thread in the LCE1 community.

    DO NOT SHARE YOUR WORK ON THE MODULE 7 prompts!

    Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. sguy. (2007, February 17). Module 7 - Possible essay prompts. Retrieved March 16, 2010, from Western Governors University Web site: http://ocw.wgu.edu/liberal-arts/rhetorical-and-critical-writing-after-11-1-2007/p71.html. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License