Overview In this exercise, you will be reading five selections listed below. Since this is an exercise in reading and annotation as well as an exercise in writing warrants, you will be doing both.
Step Two: Preparing to Write For any THREE of the articles you annotated...
Determine the author's MESSAGE or GOAL
Determine the MOST IMPORTANT ACTION the author is taking to achieve that goal in language. What is s/he DOING to achieve that goal?
Find the one single word, phrase, or sentence in which you really see that action manifested very strongly.
Don't choose a "side dish" goal.
Don't choose a "side dish" quote. Your quote has to be meaningful and crucial to achieve the author's goal or communicate her point.
FOLLOW THE TEMPLATE, PLEASE!
In other words
In order to
[Tactic] + [strong verb] + [likely effect] because [reason], and since...[reason].
The effect would likely be...because...and since
Judge and Connect
Step Three: Writing and Submitting
For EACH selection, you will follow the "Warrant Template" directions at the bottom of this page.
Your warrants should NOT be less than one-half page (typed, MLA) and not longer than one page per warrant.
Please submit all three warrants stapled together as one document under one pseudonym.
I should have a total of three separate pages from you, one page per warrant.
I should be able to figure out what data you're using by the references you make and your act of going back and pointing out which words are key.
Step Four: Proofread
I won't accept it until it's in MLA style. Please double check.
Embed your quotes.
Don't use literary terms; instead, tell me what the speaker DOES.
Use the words that you know and put them in a medium style, clear and conversational.
Avoid using words that you don't use regularly.
Don't forget about voice.
Pretend you're talking to a person. (You are.)
Step Five: Take a Chance Use a small statement of casual style to clarify a major point you've been talking about in high-middle style before. See the last sentence of the example paragraph at the bottom of this page.
Warrant Template
Here is a suggested template for doing a warrant along with a specific example below so you can see how this all looks when put together.
Here it is in a list, and then what follows is the same information in a template form just for fun.
Template (Use immediately after the sentence containing a major piece of data).
In other words, [restatement and strategic translation of the major ideas], [author] + [strong verb] + [tactic] in order to [explain purpose or abstract message] because [reason] and also since [optional reason]. [Tactic] + [strong verb] + [the likely effect or the intended effect] (which would tend to be effective/ineffective) because [reasons].
Your work should be no longer than a three-quarters of a page (double-spaced).You shouud use the warrant template.
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Warrant Template
Here is a suggested template for doing a warrant along with a specific example below so you can see how this all looks when put together.
Here it is in a list, and then what follows is the same information in a template form just for fun.
In other words
In order to
[Tactic] + [strong verb] + [likely effect] because [reason], and since...[reason].
The effect would likely be...because...and since
Judge and Connect
ExampleIn other words, Richard ascribes a great deal of his rejection and ostracism to the circumstances of his birth, but one cannot miss the scathing self-hatred as he spits out the blunt word "deform'd," one Richard immediately -- as if catching himself in the act of having spoken too much -- softens to the more euphemistic "unfinish'd," apparently in order to reestablish his momentarily-forgotten control over his language and his audience (I.i.20). However, because Richard's eye is always on the prize, here no less than elsewhere, this moment may, in fact, be nothing more than a faux-slip of the tongue, as if to communicate the idea that Richard felt such a sense of trust in his confidants, his audience -- that is, us -- that he could finally reveal, even for a second, his sincere self-hatred. That said, though, especially since the effect would likely be a markedly increased sense of compassion from an audience who can sympathize with feelings of rejection, it would be foolish not to remember Richard's earlier statements. Because Richard has earlier informed us in Henry VI, Part IIIthat he can " wet [his] face with artificial tears" (III.ii.4), and since he is in the act of telling us how he will deceive all those around him, it is not unreasonable to wonder whether this moment, however sincere it may appear, has been nothing more than a Proteus-like deception, and that we may only be seeing Richard just framing his face for all occasions. In short, the minute we feel sorry, we've been played.