English Assignments
Project #1: Social Network & (i)dentity Opinion Editorial
For this project, you will address a specific rhetorical situation: the LA Times has asked you to write an Op-Ed piece regarding social network interactions and online identity. Your editor specifies that this piece is to focus on discoveries based on your own life experiences. In other words, this is an autobiographical Op-Ed.
Project #2: Gender Design & Ad Intervention Portfolio
For this project, your rhetorical situation will address an advertising campaign of your choice. This portfolio will include multiple texts that aim to evaluate your ad campaign’s design choices and marketing. You will specifically focus on the ways in which gender is portrayed through your ad campaign. Your portfolio will include 1) Ad Campaign Evaluation 2) Ad Intervention 3) Process Analysis.
Project #3: The Grant Proposal
Your final project is our learning community integrated project. This task will be broken down into two parts over the 2nd half of the semester: information related to your issue and organization & then the request for funding. You will begin by selecting a gender related issue of interest to investigate. You will research the history of the issue and explain the issue itself. Then, you will select an organization or a social response to the issue in the form of activism, government regulations/laws or non-profit interventions. Your research of this activist based response will include field work and volunteer hours (in person & online options). Your final project will be a Grant Proposal to the Cerritos College Foundation to 1) inform & call attention to your issue(s) of concern 2) evaluate your issue & social response 3) request funding in order to address your issue. At the end of the semester, proposals will be gathered and submitted to Cerritos College for feedback. This final project will be done within small groups; however, each group member will submit their own grant.