Touchstone Archives - Essay Quoll

Create a slide presentation that summarizes your findings and recommendations.

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Assessments

Touchstone 3: Creating a Slide Presentation SCENARIO: You represent your company at a service organization dealing with one of these two issues: Facing Economic Change Engaging Civil Rights Your supervisor asked you to research information related to the history of one of these issues for your organization to help new employees and volunteers understand it […]

Should customers leave a tip in a coffee shop? Should seat belt wearing be mandatory? Should children be required to take gym/PE classes?

Posted on February 24, 2023 by Assessments

Critical Thinking Final Touchstone In this assignment, you will make two contrasting normative arguments about what one ought to do. Both arguments will be about the same topic, and so at least one of the arguments is likely to be something you don’t actually agree with. You will compose the arguments in standard form—that is, […]

How did your purpose and audience shape the way in which you wrote your argument? What was the most difficult part of writing your argumentative essay?

Posted on January 12, 2023 by Assessments

For Touchstone 2, you will be writing an argumentative essay on a topic of your choice. The topic you choose must be debatable and you must take a clear stand on one side of the issue. Your topic must also be on a small enough scale that it is appropriately narrow for a 1,000-1,500 word […]

What ideas originally came to mind when you first read through the article? Did your initial response to the article change after reading it for a second time?

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Assessments

Engage with a Work of Research For this essay, you will select one of the articles provided below and engage in a 2-3 page summary and response dialogue with the source. This will involve providing a detailed summary of the source’s argument and responding to that argument with your position based on the information provided […]

Did you use the point-by-point or block method to organize your body paragraphs? What made you decide to organize your essay in this way ? Consider the ways a comparison/contrast essay can be organized. Which organization did you choose and why?

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Assessments

Compare or contrast two cities essay Remember that the two subjects you choose should have a meaningful connection so that you can draw comparisons or contrasts between the two. Your thesis should convey the main idea of the essay and clearly articulate what two topics you are comparing/contrasting. Because you are writing in the informative […]

Write a narrative essay using the techniques and elements of narrative writing that you have learned in this unit.Describe a time when you had to think or act quickly to overcome a challenge.

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Assessments

ASSIGNMENT: Write a narrative essay using the techniques and elements of narrative writing that you have learned in this unit. Your essay must be approximately 500-800 words long. 6 Sample Narrative Essay In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any recycled work will […]

Write a 4-6 page approximately 1000-1500 word) argumentative essay using the classical model supported by evidence and research.

Posted on June 29, 2022 by DavidY

Touchstone 4: Argumentative Essay ASSIGNMENT: Write a 4-6 page approximately 1000-1500 word) argumentative essay using the classical model supported by evidence and research. Sample Argumentative Essay In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any recycled work will be sent back with a 0, […]