This course is the second part of a set of courses required to be completed as training tools for future writing goals in the university. Its objective was to present students with basic Oratory and Argumentative strategies used to convince the audience of the orator or writer's point of view. Short stories, poems, and calligrams were studied to decipher the author's message in the form of persuasive essays. Below are a couple of samples of the completed coursework.
- Argumentative Essay: Hero's Journey
- Narrative Essay: Passion for Languages
- Persuasive Essay: Which is Better? Film or Book?
- Calligram: Japan
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Open in new tab This piece is a narrative essay where students were tasked to write about an aspect of their own life. I chose to discuss my journey to discovering a passion for foreign languages and cultures as, at the moment of writing, a bi-lingual student.
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This artifact analyses the adaptation of Guillermo Arriaga's book "Bufalo de la noche," or "Night Buffalo," into a film. It points out the inconsistencies found between the film adaptation and the written piece, and concludes with arguments in favor of the writer's elected form of the story.
While on the course's unit of calligrams, students were asked to create a calligram based on a free topic. The topic chosen was in regards to Japan being the land of the rising sun.
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