This was the initial intrusctions for the midterm essay
Listen: Camilla Arndal Andersen: “What Happens in Your Brain When You Taste Food | TED Talk (Links to an external site.) (13.43 mins.).
Listen to Camilla Arndal Andersen’s TED Talk, and evaluate if she communicates her central ideas with conviction and credibility. What adds to or detracts from her authority? Is she persuasive or not? Give specific examples from her lecture to support your position. Use quotations from the lecture to support your analysis and illustrate your points. You are not expected to be a content expert; you are being asked to analyze what makes the presentation convincing or unconvincing to a general audience of viewers, including yourself. Turn your opinion into an argument that takes a position.
You should write in the third person, using academic prose. (Do not use the first or second person.) You are crafting a textual analysis of the TED Talk.
- Use academic English, writing in the third person.
- You should provide in-text citations, as well as a Works Cited for the TED Talk and any other sources you cite.
- Use MLA Essay Format and MLA 2016 Works Cited Style.
- Include your last name and page number at the top of each page (right side).
- Do not justify your right margin.
- Include your word count after the final word of your conclusion. (Count everything from the first word of your title until the final word of your conclusion, excluding quotations.)
- Write as many words as you believe are necessary for clearly and concisely making your argument and providing compelling analysis and evidence to persuade your readers. At the ENGL 155 level, this will typically fall at least in the 550-600 word range.
- Use the naming convention First Name Last Name Midterm.
- Submit a MS Word document. (No PDFs, Pages, or Google Docs please.)
- You should keep your originality score in Turnitin below 5%, preferably between 0-3%. Check your work to fix the problems that arise when you either use the words and ideas of others without documentation for them, or make spacing or punctuation errors when inserting your quotations. Taking these steps to check how you insert quotations before submitting will ensure that your score remains in 0-3% range.
- Be sure to consult the Read: Essay Editing Checklist.
- Since this is a Midterm assessment, you are expected to work independently, showcasing the critical thinking and composition skills you have been developing in the course.
- Under no circumstances should you email me your Midterm. Submit it in the course to Turnitin by the deadline.
- Use Firefox or Safari to upload your work. Chrome will not work with Turnitin unless the closed eye symbol in your search bar is open.