Gerald graff hidden intellectualism

RWS 280 Paper #3 Prompt: Thinking about Education The articles in this unit are in a They Say / I Say Chapter titled “Is college the best option?” They raise questions about higher education, such as: What is the value of a college education? What does it mean to be educated? Your project in this paper is to analyze one of the arguments in this unit, and then to respond to it. Discuss one article: Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism,” Ungar’s “The New Liberal Arts,” or Owen and Sawhill’s “Should Everyone Go to College?” (All of these texts are in our edition of They Say / I Say). Summarize the text’s argument, purpose, and most important claims. Then evaluate the evidence and reasoning that the writer uses to support two claims. Discuss whether or not you think that there is sufficient (enough) evidence and reasoning to support those claims. After you have analyzed the article, explore the significance of the article to your own career as a college student. Be specific about the particular passage(s) that you find most interesting and relevant (or that you find to be least relevant) to your own experience. In this part of the paper, you should begin to “join the conversation,” as Graff and Birkenstein put it. You will want to refer to They Say / I Say Ch. 4 for templates on how to agree, disagree, and partially agree and partially disagree with a text. You will also want to refer to They Say / I Say Ch. 7 for templates on how to explain why a topic is important. Be specific and support your own claims with examples, evidence, and explanation. Examples may come from your own life. No research is required for this paper. Evaluation Criteria:

1. Introduce the topic, the paper’s project, and indicate how the paper will proceed.

2. Use the rhetorical précis to provide a fair and accurate summary of the text’s argument and purpose.

3. Evaluate the evidence and reasoning the writer(s) use(s ) to support two of his/their claims.

4. Explore the significance of the text to your own experience as a college student. What has this writer said that matters to you? Be specific and support your own claim(s) with examples and explanation.

5. Support your claims with specific evidence from the text; frame or sandwich quotations.

6. Be unified, organized, and use transitions and metadiscourse to guide the reader through the paper.

7. Be thoroughly edited and appropriate for an academic audience, with no spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors.

8. Use MLA page format and citation format. No Works Cited required. Suggested length: approximately five typed, double-spaced pages.