ESSAY TWO/ENGLISH 1A/UTSLER/ACADEMIC ESSAY/Due:

  • “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
    —Dorothea Lange

In an academic essay, featuring an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion, classify and analyze your self-curated collection of photographs

Please choose one of the following options for your academic essay:

Option A:

Write an essay where you introduce readers to a meaningful collection of photographs associated with a specific, significant event.Use classification to organize your essay and use detailed analysis to help develop your essay. Identify, define, and discuss three or more categories of photographs. Your purpose is not merely to create superficial categories of images but to provide your readers with ways of seeing and understanding these images and to support these interpretations with detailed analyses of photographs as evidence.

Option B:

Write an essay where you introduce readers to a meaningful collection of photographs of one specific person. Use classification to organize your essay and use detailed analysis to help develop your essay. Identify, define, and discuss three or more categories of collection photographs. Your purpose is not merely to create superficial categories of images but to provide your readers with ways of seeing and understanding these images and to support these interpretations with detailed analyses of photographs as evidence.

Option C:

Write an essay where you introduce readers to a collection of photographs associated with a specific theme. Use classification to organize your essay and use detailed analysis to help develop your essay. Identify, define, and discuss three to five categories of photographs.Your purpose is not merely to create superficial categories of images but to provide your readers with ways of seeing and understanding these images and to support these interpretations with detailed development of evidence.

Your essay should be approximately four and half pages to seven pages in length.

Reminder: This essay is expected to focus on your selection of photographs and your analysis of these photographs; that said, sources, used to help establish photograph context and/or for any other purposes, must be credited with in-text citations and a works cited page. The photography collection and original sources of photographs must also be credited.

Essay Assessment: I will consider the following questions:

  1. Context: To what extent does the essay reflect attention to audience, purpose, genre, and tone?)
  2. Title: To what extent does the title feature an effective title?
  3. Introduction: To what extent does the essay feature an effective introductory paragraph?
  4. Thesis Statement: Is the thesis statement placed at the end of the introduction (or in another appropriate, purposeful location)? To what extent does the thesis statement provide a clear and specific overall contract for readers? To what extent does the thesis feature effective forecasting of the categories to be discussed?
  5. Idea Development: To what extent does the writer illustrate ideas with specific description and analysis of photographs?To what extent does each body paragraph feature effective uses of supporting details?
  6. Topic Sentences: To what extent does each body paragraph feature an effective topic sentence (as the first sentence or as another purposefully placed sentence in the paragraph)?
  7. Rhetorical Strategies: To what extent is the essay organized and developed using the highlighted rhetorical strategy, classification? To what extent does the essay feature effective uses of additional rhetorical strategies, including description, exemplification, and definition?
  8. Source Uses: To what extent does the writer effectively integrate (frame, explain, and respond) quotations, successfully paraphrase information from outside sources, and/or appropriately summarize source information?
  9. Organization: To what extent does the essay remain focused? To what extent is the essay organized effectively overall? To what extent is each paragraph organized effectively? To what extent does the essay feature effective uses of transitions, repetition of words/synonyms, and/or other choices which ensure coherence?
  10. Conclusion: To what extent does the conclusion begin with a successful restatement of the thesis statement? To what extent does the conclusion provide satisfying closure for the essay?
  11. Sentence-Level Considerations: To what extent does the essay feature effective sentence-level choices (effective word choices, sentence variety, other)? To what extent does the essay avoid grammatical and punctuation errors which interfere with successful communication of ideas?
  12. To what extent is the essay formatted correctly according to MLA standards?

ESSAY TWO/ENGLISH 1A/UTSLER/PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION /Due: Develop a self-curated collection of professional and/or personal photographs that communicates to viewers.Consider audience, purpose, tone, and genre as you develop your collection of photographs. Choose, collect, and display this collection of images for viewing as an exhibit, as a collage, as a time capsule, as a Powerpoint, as a SWAY presentation, other website presentation, or in another publically viewable form.

Choose one of the following options:

Option A:

Choose a recent or previous event of historic significance. Introduce viewers to a meaningful collection of photographs associated with this event.

Option B:

Choose a specific person. Introduce viewers to a meaningful collection of photographs associated with this person.

Option C:

Choose a specific theme (college student life). Introduce viewers to a meaningful collection of photographs associated with this theme.

You are writing about a collection of photographs curated for viewing by the public; the collection and the essay may include but must extend beyond a purely personal focus.

Photography Collection Assessment:

I will consider how well your collection demonstrates the following:

1. Understanding and addressing this assignment prompt appropriately

2. Considering audience, purpose, and tone for the photography collection

3. Narrowing your collection’s focus specifically and meaningfully

4. Choosing, collecting, and displaying these images for viewing as an exhibit, as a collage, as a time capsule, as a Powerpoint, as a website presentation, or as another publically viewable form

5. Naming and defining the collection’s overall subject (using a stipulative definition)

6. Choosing a total of at least twenty photographs for the collection

7. Classifying the photographs using at least four categories

8. Naming and defining each category of photographs using the stipulative definition strategy

9. Including at least four or more photographs in each category

10. Crediting the photographer and source of photograph for each image in a clearly placed and identifiable caption(Collage: Images must be clearly numbered and matched with a list of numbered captions.)

11. Providing limited context for the photograph in each caption / crediting source information

12. Presenting a successful digital collection of the photographs (printed collection: optional), including clearly identifiable images with appropriately placed captions, providing an effective title for this collection