{"id":22634,"date":"2023-07-01T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T08:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/put-yourself-in-the-position-of-offering-counsel-to-the-advice-seeker-in-the-letter-assigned-to-you\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T08:38:05","slug":"put-yourself-in-the-position-of-offering-counsel-to-the-advice-seeker-in-the-letter-assigned-to-you","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/put-yourself-in-the-position-of-offering-counsel-to-the-advice-seeker-in-the-letter-assigned-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Put yourself in the position of offering counsel to the advice-seeker in the letter assigned to you."},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Put yourself in the position of offering counsel to the advice-seeker in the letter assigned to you.<\/li>\n
  2. In response to your advice-seeker’s dilemma, draft a polished <\/span>1,200-word advice letter<\/strong>. Composing your letter will require you to <\/span>adopt a persona<\/strong> <\/span>(what is this persona\u2019s name?), <\/span>choose a tone or set of tones<\/strong> <\/span>with which to approach the advice-seeker\u2019s problem(s), and try to buttress the suggestions you make with a variety of <\/span>rhetorical appeals<\/strong> <\/span>to the advice-seeker while drawing on your own past experiences (even if these experiences end up getting amplified and\/or modified in some way to fit the persona and voice you have elected to take up).<\/li>\n
  3. In addition to this advice letter, I am also asking that you draft an <\/span>800-word account of why you made the choices you did indeed make in your advice letter<\/strong>. Why did you choose the tones and the persona that you did? Why did you elect to make the kinds of rhetorical appeals you did? How did you know which past experiences to make use of in drafting your letter? In short, use these 800 words as an opportunity to explain your thought process (to me and yourself) in composing the advice letter the way that you did.<\/li>\n
  4. A word of caution: <\/span>do not use your advice letter as an opportunity to judge or condemn the person seeking advice<\/strong>. Likewise, do not treat his or her stated problem and\/or question as an occasion for satire, irony, or snarkiness. Treat these letters as real appeals for help, guidance, and insight, and trust yourself enough to be a reliable respondent to all three. Craft your persona and draft your letter accordingly.<\/li>\n
  5. All prose should be your original work, except for quotation and reference to the passages being analyzed. As ever, please format your writing in keeping with MLA Style.<\/li>\n
  6. The minimum word count for the Workshop Two draft of this assignment is 1,200 words (= the advice letter only). When you submit the final draft, it will need to be <\/span>at least 2,000 words long<\/strong> <\/span>(at least 1,200 words for the advice letter and at least 800 words for the critical self-reflection).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Put yourself in the position of offering counsel to the advice-seeker in the letter assigned to you. In response to your advice-seeker’s dilemma, draft a polished 1,200-word advice letter. Composing your letter will require you to adopt a persona (what is this persona\u2019s name?), choose a tone or set of tones with which to approach the advice-seeker\u2019s problem(s), and try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=22634"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=22634"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=22634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}