ESSAY IV: Writing to Effect Change on a Community Issue
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Readings and Other Sources of Information
Community change or involvement
(C.P.Ellis, various Z articles on campus activism,
Campus life (Sadker & Sadker 228, Roszak
277, Lazarre 623)
Interviews with campus officials, faculty,
and/or students
Library resources on SHU (internet and print)
Essay Requirements
* Write for an specific
audience and a specific purpose. For example, your audience might be the general campus
(editorial or news story), a review board (a group that Dawn Williams chooses to review a
proposal of yours), or to some other forum of students and/or faculty. In other words, the
audience must be "real." The purpose must be "real," too, that is, to
effect change in some way on the campus.
* Write about a particular issue at Seton Hall in a way that reflects the complexity
of the problem and a knowledge of who is involved in effecting change
* Incorporate the perspectives of at least two readings as a way of contextualizing
the writing for a Seton Hall students, faculty, or administration
* Demonstrate a substantive knowledge of the issue through evidence presented (such
as interviews, research using past Setonians, e-mail correspondence with administration
officials, visitation to other schools)
* One substantive piece of writing per project group