PERSUASIVE ESSAY CHECKLIST

1. Cover Page
How to write a cover page:
'Title of Your Essay' FONT 18-ORTALA
ENG 1004 Communication Skills & Academic Reporting II FONT 18-ORTALA
Submitted to: Mehmet ATASAGUN FONT 14 ORTALA
Submitted by: Your name FONT 14 ORTALA
University of Bahcesehir FONT 26 ORTALA
December, 2005 FONT 14 ORTALA

2. OUTLINE

3. ESSAY (1000 WORDS)

1. POV
2. Arguments
3. Suppporting Details

• Interview/Questionnaire
• Summary
• Paraphrase
• Quotation (Long/short)
• Statistics
• Examples
• Reasons

4. BIBLIOGRAPHY

5. APPENDICES (Ekte göstereceğiniz döküman/anket/anket sonuçları/tablo etc)

6. FORMAT:

• Times New Romans
• Font: 12
• Double-spacing

PERSUASIVE TOPICS

· Advertising
Should beer advertising be banned from television?

· Alcohol
Should the health benefits of alcohol be promoted?
Is advertising liquor on television and radio irresponsible?
Do television liquor ads promote underage drinking?
Is Alcoholics Anonymous effective?
Do children of alcoholics benefit from recovery groups?

· Body Art

· Capital Punishment
Death Penalty - Yes or No?
Should executions be televised?

· Censorship
Can a city ban offensive art?
Should flag burning be banned?
Are stronger child pronography laws needed?
Should hate speech be tolerated?
Should government funding of the arts be restricted?
Are movie ratings effective in curbing violence?
Should video games be censored?
Should internet pornography be censored?
Should television programs be censored?

· Consumerism
Is consumerism killing the earth?
Are Americans becoming too materialistic?
Has the increase of large chain stores such as Walmart been beneficial to consumers and their communities?

· Divorce
Does divorce help or hurt children?
Should it be more difficult to obtain a divorce?

· Dress Codes
Are student dress codes a violation of civil rights?
Do student uniforms affect the culture of a school?

· Driver's License Requirements
Should school dropouts lose their driver's licenses?
Should the age requirement for driving be raised to 18?

· Drug Abuse
Should pregnant addicts be prosecuted?
Should the war on drugs be abandoned?
Should employees be tested for drugs?
Should students' lockers and belongings be searched for drugs?
Should student athletes be drug tested?

· Eating and Food
Is vegetarianism a healthier way of life?
Is eating meat a moral way of life?
Is milk consumption harmful?
Are vitamin supplements beneficial?
Does our culture support eating disorders?

· Education
Should the government offer school vouchers?
Does tenure help or hurt the educational system?
Are teachers paid enough?
Should school start later in the day?
Is it more important to desegregate schools or have neighborhood schools?
Should students be allowed to choose the school they attend?
Should tracking and ability grouping be eliminated?
Is home schooling an effective method of education?
Should we have year-round school?

· Euthanasia
The case for or against assisted suicide
Do people have the right to die?
Do hospices provide the best care for the dying?
Are living wills beneficial?
Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized?

· Foreign Languages
Why is it important to study foreign languages in school?

· Gambling
Is compulsive gambling an uncontrollable disease?
Should casino gambling be prohibited?

· Genetics
Should genetically altered foods be sold?
Could genetic screening of embryos harm society?
Will genetically altered animals benefit humankind?
Is DNA fingerprinting reliable?

· Homeless
Is the extent of homelessness exaggerated?
Can shelters help the homeless?
Should the homeless be banned from cities?

· Marijuana
Should marijuana be legalized?
Should doctors be able to prescribe marijuana for severely ill patients?

· Media
Does the press exploit private tragedy? (Princess Di, John F. Kennedy, Jr., etc.)
Is there too much violence in the media?
Are movie ratings effective in curbing violence?
Does television violence contribute to juvenile crime?

· Music
Does popular music teach immoral values?
Should Napster be legal?
Why is music and fine arts education so important?

· Right to Privacy
Is the government infringing on our rights to privacy?

· Rights of Children and Teenagers
Should children be allowed to divorce their parents?
Should parents be informed of college students' grades or behavior?
Should students' lockers and belongings be searched for drugs?
Should student athletes be drug tested?

· Smoking
Should smoking be banned in all restaurants?

· Special Education
Should disabled children be mainstreamed?

· Sports
Should professional athletes be looked at as role models?
Can competitive sports be unhealthy?
Should college athletic programs be reformed?
Has athletes' greed marred professional sports?
Should steroids be banned from sports?
Are professional athletes paid too much?

· Video Games
Do violent video games cause violence in people?
Should video games be censored?

Problems of the Youth in Turkey

Alcohol
Should the health benefits of alcohol be promoted?
Is advertising liquor on television and radio irresponsible?
Do television liquor ads promote underage drinking?
Is Alcoholics Anonymous effective?
Do adult children of alcoholics benefit from recovery groups?

Censorship
Should flag burning be banned?
Are stronger child pornography laws needed?
Should government funding of the arts be restricted?
Are movie ratings effective in curbing violence?
Should video games be censored?

Is rap music decadent?
Should rock music (arabesque) be labeled?

Male/Female Roles; Working Women
Do working parents harm children?
Does day care harm children?
Should men and women share domestic responsibilities?
Has women's increased participation in the work force harmed society?
Are women victims of discrimination in the workplace?
Is sexual harassment in the workplace exaggerated?
Should women serve in military combat?

Mass Media
Does media violence contribute to society's violence?
Should executions be televised?
Is subliminal persuasion a threat?
Is television harmful for children?

Population
Should we enact one-child policy?

Violence
Is violence in the workplace a serious problem?
Does violence in the media cause violence in society?
Is domestic violence against men a problem?

Philosophical Topics
Reincarnation

Why you should watch...
"The Simpsons"
''Kurtlar Vadisi''

Why we should write the the producers tobring back Kurtlar Vadisi

Miscellaneous Topics
TV violence
Nuclear power
Advertising


Advertising in tobacco industry
Advertising Bans and Tobacco Consumption OECD Countries

Internet censorship
Free Speech The Internet Resources - Civil Liberties - Net Links

Violence and Video games
Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior

Projects

Project 1?The Business and Marketing Perspective: Analysis of Product Advertisements. It is the job of marketing departments within business organizations to conduct research on potential consumers, and then design advertising campaigns that will reach and persuade these customers to purchase the product. With this in mind, you are to collect print ads for five different brands of the same product. Identify the emphasized product attributes involved in each ad. Describe the consumer segments that are the apparent targets. This is not an individual activity. You are expected to work with your team in locating the ads, analyzing their content, and discussing the segmentation issues. Come to class ready to give a brief oral report of your work (all term members participating). Have a brief report of your activities and conclusions ready to hand in at the end of your oral report (2-3 pages). All members of the group must sign this report.

Project 2?The Sociological Approach to Consumer Life Style: Self-Report Measures of Consumer Behavior. This project relates to problem of temporal and situational factors in consumer behavior. Your task is to devise and complete a two-day record of how you spend time. Prepare a recording form on which you can note all discrete activities that you engage in, including: beginning and ending times, name of activity, location, and whether conducted alone or with others. Initially, you might decide as a group on your activity categories (school, job, transportation, exercise, cooking, cleaning, personal care, TV, etc.). Decide what additional information to collect (e.g., feelings while engaged in an activity, alone or not, self-instigated or not). Before you begin this 2-day time diary, write down your predictions: What percentage of your time will be spent with others, what percentage engaged in academic study, etc. Gather activity data for 2 days, then analyze and summarize your results. Categorize each activity as to type. Note the percentage of time given to each category.
As a group, compare results and discuss similarities and differences. You might discuss differences in location of activities (in-home vs. out-of-home), social vs. solitary activity, monetary cost of activities, self-instigated vs. reactive activities, active participant vs. passive observer, obligatory vs. discretionary activity, pleasant vs. unpleasant, etc. Consider the reasons for the differences found between yourself and others in your group.
Finally, discuss how analysis of the use of time by students such as yourselves can be used by marketers to identify and develop new goods and services. You might critique the diary methods and suggest alternative ways to learn how consumer behavior is distributed in time and place. Prepare a summary report of your work to be signed by all and handed in at the end of your oral report to the class. (To minimize redundancy, the oral report will consist of each group briefly describing their summary data?preferably with the aid of a figure or chart. Issues of validity and commercial uses of such information will be discussed by the class as a whole.)

Project 3?Critique of TV Commercials. Each group must take responsibility for leading a class discussion critiquing TV ads. Your group should decide on what category of ad to examine. Choices include ads targeting children (Saturday mornings), housewives (mid-day soaps), sports enthusiasts (ESPN, weekend sports), prime time viewers (mid-evening), late night viewers (after midnight, and teenagers (MTV). Dates will be assigned for each group. This exercise works best if you limit your analysis to a small number of ads that differ in interesting ways. It is suggested that you show one ad at a time, discussing it with the class, before going on to your next one. Prepare a summary report of your work to be signed by all and handed in at the end of your oral report to the class.


1. [Censorship] Your local public library has come under criticism for allowing patrons under the age of 18 to check out books that are unacceptable. The books are either explicit, describe graphic violence, or use questionable language. Most recently, a high school senior checked out James Joyce's Ulysses. The student's parents did not approve of the student reading the book and complained to the town council. As a result, the council is considering removing all questionable books from the library. What is your position on this issue? Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper stating your position and supporting it with convincing reasons.
2. [Bilingual Education] As part of a proposed educational initiative in your state, local school districts are responsible for providing required courses in both English language and Spanish language in order to increase the success of their programs. Because your state has a large population of Spanish speakers, the state education department believes that teaching these students in their first language will help them learn better and more quickly. Because of the limited budget, however, the local school board is concerned that they may not be able to provide the additional teachers or training needed for this program. They fear that they will lose state funding and accreditation even though 90% of the district's students pass their achievement tests on the first try. What is your position on this issue? Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper stating your point of view and supporting it with convincing reasons.

Acting/Theatre:

Actor motivation

Actor/actress salaries

Media:
Portrayal of women
Influence on female body image
Cartoon sidekicks: best or most helpful?
TV: good or bad?
American Beauty: how this movie touched the University of Maine
Does the media encourage more violence by reporting on it?
Negative influence on America?s youth
Media is highly deceptive
Negative portrayal of men on TV

Science:
Animal experimentation/testing
Space (Mars) exploration
Human cloning
Genetically-altered food
Genetic cloning
Genetic manipulation
Gene therapy
Is human behavior genetically controlled?
Nature vs. nurture
Can human behavior evolve?

Sports:
Team mascots derogatory to certain cultures/just a name
Athletic supplement support/ban
High professional athlete salaries
Affect on the well being of the mind and body

Stereotyping musical forms

Technology ruins society

Violence:
Blaming high school shootings on television
In the media
On TV

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Objectives: Communication Skills II is intended for students with an upper-intermediate level of English. The aim of Communication Skills II is to improve students? academic reading, writing, speaking and listening skills and bring them up to an advanced level for academic study in English.

Content: Communication Skills II provides students with an authentic framework in which to develop their understanding of key areas of their own fields of study, while at the same time giving them the opportunity to improve their language skills through a wide variety of relevant and challenging activities. The students are expected to cope successfully with the lenghty reading texts written for their own academic fields as well as for the fields other than their own. The students will also make use of the glossary prepared for their own academic fields. As for writing, the students are expected to write a persuasive essay and a communication research report in which they will do a research about a topic on their own academic field and support their points through summaries, paraphrases and quotations from those researches. The students will write their essays within the constraints and applications of MLA or APA style (depending on the format applied in their faculties). They will also be expected to give a 20 min presentation on their essyas.



Course Breakdown:
Assignment/Quiz/Hmw 15 %
Mid-term: 20 %
Project 30 %
Presentation 15 %
Final 20 %

CHECKLIST

Dear students,

Make sure your essays include the following:

1. At least 5 contributions
2. Cover page (See below)
3. Summary
4. Paraphrase
5. 1 long quotation
6. Research
7. Bibliography (References)
8. Appendices
9. Departmental contribution to your essay
10. Specific examples from Turkey

How to write a cover page:

'Title of Your Essay'

ENG 1003 Communication Skills & Academic Reporting

Submitted to: Mehmet ATASAGUN

Submitted by: Your name

University of Bahcesehir

December, 2005

RESEARCH

A copy of researches that I compiled from your investigations is available at the photocopy room. Go ask for Mehmet Hoca Fotokopileri and get it.

You can also use the followings for in your essays refering to the source.

Ilbasmis, Sezin. Conferance Notes. Dec 19, 2005. Conferance by Dervis Zaim.
University of Bahcesehir. Dec 15, 2005.

Derviş ZAim söyleşisinden bizim söylediklerimizle birlikte benim kalemimetakılanlar bu kadar;

-Anadolu'da finansal durum bir çok şey iyi durumda ama kültürel tüketimaz.Bu eksikliği bu festivaller örtebilir.
-Bu festivaller yönetmenere mekan bulma açısından yararı olurlar.En sonçekim aşamasını bitirdiğim 17.yy Osmanlı'dan bahseden filmimdeKapadokya'yı mekan olarak kullandım.Burayı da o festival sayesindekeşfetmiştim.
-Farklı mekanların yönetmen üzerindeki izdüşümleri farklı olabilir bu dafilm içerklerini etkileyebilir.Günümüz medyası sanattan soyutlandığı içinbu festivaller bu açıkları kapatır.-Festivallerin sinemasever kitlesi oluşturmada etkisi var.....
TürkSineması nasıl kurtulur?200.000 kemik seyircisi olduğu zaman.



Çabuk, Çağrı & Mehmet Gücenmez. Interview with Yılmaz Erdoğan. Dec 16, 2005.

Çoçukluk döneminizdeki Hakkari hakkında ne düşünüyorsunuz?
Hakkari hiç birşeyin olmadığı herşeyi televizyondan gördüğü,onunda nasıl yapıldığını bilmediği bir ortamdı.

Peki Anadolu insanının buna bakış açısı yani ordaki insanların bunları gördüğü zamanki,filmlere karşı olan tepkisi neydi?
Film çekilirken bile ordaki insanlar çok heyecanlıydı..hatta oradaki birkaç insanda Vizontele filminde oynatıldı hatta bunlar arasında çocuklarda vardı..

Anadolu insanının sinema ve tiyatro hakkında geliştiğini söleyebilirmiyiz?

Tabiki herşey görerek oluyor bu insanlarda zamanla bunları görerek öğrendiler ve şu anda birçok insan belkide ilerde daha iyi eserler oradaki insanlardan çıkacaktır.

QUOTING

SHORT QUOTATIONS (font 12)
Example 1

She stated, "The placebo effect disappeared when behaviors were studied in this manner" (Miele, 1993, p. 276), but she did not clarify which behaviors were studied.

Example 2

According to Miele (1993), "the placebo effect disappeared when behaviors were studied in this manner" (p. 276).

Example 3

Miele (1993, p. 276) found that "the placebo effect disappeared" in this case, but what will the next step in researching this issue be?

LONG QUOTATIONS (more than 3 lines) (font:10)

Miele's 1993 study found the following:

The placebo effect disappeared when behaviors were studied in this manner. Furthermore, the behaviors were never exhibited again, even when real drugs were administered. Earlier studies conducted by the same group of researchers at the hospital were clearly premature in attributing the results to a placebo effect. (p. 276)


E-mail

Because e-mail is a personal communication, not easily retrieved by the general public, no entry appears in your reference list. When citing an e-mail message in the body of the paper, acknowledge it in the parenthetical citation: The novelist has repeated this idea recently (Salman Rushdie, e-mail to author, May 1, 1995).

On Documentation...

In the course of your writings, you will often be called upon to research or otherwise incorporate someone else's thoughts or ideas into your own work either directly or indirectly. On such occasions, it is important that you accurately and properly document your sources.
There are many different methods of documenting sources, but the ones you will most frequently be called upon to use in your academic work are MLA and APA. Properly citing is not difficult. It is simply a matter of looking up the format for a particular source and then plugging in the right information in the correct order, with the appropriate punctuation.
When you use research in your writing, you need to document it in two ways: internally and externally. Internally means that you give a parenthetical reference to the source in the body of the essay. External citations are compiled in either a works cited or a bibliography where you provide comprehensive publication information for your sources. For more help with research see Evaluating Sources.
As you learn and practice integrating quotes in your work, keep in mind the following guidelines:
Never allow a quote to replace your own ideas.
Always use quotes to support, enhance, and explain your own ideas.
Never assume a quote is self-explanatory.
Always set up your quote, introducing the author and work in the set-up whenever possible.
Always make an explicit connection between the quote and your ideas. Make it clear to your reader why the quote is important enough to be included in your essay. The reader should never have to make these connections on his own.
Never, ever use quotes as fillers.
Always quote accurately.

For example:
Two weeks ago, when I first walked into my composition class, my whole being was filled with dread. The words "six thousand graded words" reverberated like a death sentence in my ears. I've always hated writing. And if the poor grades I've historically received on my papers are an indicator, I'm not very good at it either. I'm always desperately trying to reach a minimum word count, using quotes as filler, and wondering if my modifiers are dangling. I don't know why I worry though. It's not as if I know how to undangle them. The point is all the rules scare me and worrying about them keeps me from focusing on what it is I have to say. It turns out though that writing is a process and that there is a difference between the essay and good academic writing. It also turns out that the way I've been approaching writing, by its very nature sets me up to fail. I'm learning now that I need to concentrate first on what I have to say and second on how I say it. In his book, The Essay, Paul Heilker writes that the essay "does not try to prove a point. It does not try to persuade the reader . . . " (89). This idea completely contradicts what I've always been taught about writing. Every writing teacher I've ever had has told me that I need to have a thesis before I start a paper, yet it isn't until after I've written a paper that I seem to have any sense of what I'm really trying to say. Scott Russell Sanders explains that the essay is "a record of the individual mind at work and play," and that essays are "experiments in making sense of things" (qtd. in Heilker 89). I'm finding that essaying gives me the freedom to play with words and ideas without worrying about form. Indeed, I'm finding that this concept of essaying may cause me to reevaluate my whole notion of writing.

Work Cited

Heilker, Paul. The Essay. Urbana: NCTE, 1996.

PROJECT (20%) FESTIVAL ON WHEELS

The Festival on Wheels Project is divided into 4 parts: (20%)

PART 1: 10 POINTS
PART 2: 3 POINTS
PART 3: 2 POINTS
PART 4: 5 POINTS

PART 1 (10 points): DEADLINE: DEC 12, MONDAY .

Instruction: Write about the contribution of the festival to the Turkish culture and society.
1. Find additional contributions (apart from the ones that I gave you) e.g. ecenomical
2.Paraphrase and summarize the articles to support your points
3. Exemplify ideas: Talk about the concepts of ?art?, ?artist? and depict a picture of Turkey (Türkiye?den spesifik örnekler vererek kendinizi destekleyin)

PART 2 (3 POINTS): Research DEC 15, THU / DEC 16, FRI

a. E-mail Kars, Malatya, Bursa and Kayseri municipalities
b. E-mail Ankara Cinema Association
c. Interview with cinema critics (the writers of the articles)
d. Contact with Atilla Dorsay
e. Interview your professors (the teachers in your faculty)
f. Review local newspapers and TVs in Kayseri, Malatya, Bursa and Kars
g. Contact with theatres and cinemas in those cities to know if there were any increase in the number of cinema/theatre audience after the festival

Note: You do not have do all the above mentioned research. Do at least 1 research. On the condition that you did 2 research, i will give you bonus.

When you e-mail people about the festival, print out your e-mail, so that you append it to your essay.

PART 3 (2 POINTS): DEADLINE: DEC 19, MONDAY
Instruction: Integrate your research into your essay

PART 4 (5 POINTS): DEADLINE DEC 19, MONDAY

Advertising Students: come up with ideas regarding an advertisement campaign for ?The Festival on Wheels?
PR Students: Think of ways to publisize the festival and come up with ideas to actively take part in it
Visual Communication & Design Students: Compose a poster for the festival
Cinema TV Students: Think about a follow up organisation regarding the festival

HOMEWORK - FOR THURSDAY 8 DEC

Instruction: Read the articles about the film festival 'The Festival on Wheels' posted on mehmetatasagun.blogspot.com. Discuss the contribution of 'The Festival on Wheels' to Turkish culture and society. Summarise and paraphrase from these articles to support your point. You should:

Start with an introductory paragraph, talking about the festivals in general and narrowing down the topic to 'the festival on wheels.'
Or start with a quotation, to capture the interest of the readers
Or start with a question, to arouse curiosity

In the body paragraphs:
Talk about the contribution of this festival to:

i. Turkish culture
1. getting to know European Cinema
2. meeting the directors in the cities
3. adding color to life during festival time
4. exploring different countries through movies

ii. talk about the contribution of the festival to Turkish cinema lovers
1. the contribution of 10 of the best Turkish movies

iii. talk about the contribution of the festival to the education of the film viewers

iv. talk about the contribution of the festival to Anatolian cities and Istanbul

v. talk about the contribution of the festival to Cinema critics
1. discuss cinema
2. interview with the creators of these movies
3. chat with a director after watching his movie