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Please write an essay about the topic in the rubric below. Please follow the rubric is very clear and straightforward. I have links provided that you should use, you do not need to use all. DO NOT plagiarize or use AI, please use your own words. The essay should be in MLA format, 3-4 pages, and DO NOT write more than that. Have a work cited page as well. Let me know if you need anything else.https://www.grossmont.edu/student-support/career-center/resources.phphttps://www.dol.gov/general/topic/statistics/occupationshttps://www.nonprofithr.com/is-there-still-a-war-for-talent-or-are-we-being-propagandized/https://www.nonprofithr.com/is-there-still-a-war-f…https://prismreports.org/2022/09/19/military-recru…
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English 120: College Composition and Reading
Instructor: K. Sherlock
Extra Credit Essay Assignment
Rhetorical Analysis of Career Propaganda
DUE DATE
On Canvas, visit “Syllabus” in the course menu, or go to the
corresponding “XTRA CR • Career Propaganda” module for
submission info and due dates. Follow these standards:
MLA Style
Download the MLA document template below and populate it with
your own info and essay content; DON’T alter its pre-configured
format and style:
• TMPL | MS Word MLA Doc [DOCX]
Submit/Upload
Using the “Start Assignment” button on the official Assignment 1
page, upload the final draft of this essay in one of the following
formats: Portable Document Format .pdf; MS Word .doc or .docx
File Name
Pattern your filename on the following (including dashes):
YourLastName-FirstInitial-ENGL120-section####-XTRC.docx [or
.pdf] (E.g., Floughbly-G-ENGL120-1139-XTRC.pdf).
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VALUE
5 extra credit points max; graded (scored); no late
submissions accepted. This is an optional assignment. If you
choose not to complete it, it won’t have any impact on your
existing course grade.
LENGTH
3-5 pages, plus a separate Works Cited page, correctly
formatted and arranged per MLA document design and
bibliographic style.
CONTEXT
The main goal of propaganda is to persuade or manipulate its
audience to an agenda, but how righteous that agenda is can
be a matter for debate. Defined in this manner, though, all
advertising must propagandize in some measure, because it
minimizes the negatives and inflates the positives with biased
perspectives, manipulative music or imagery, scare tactics,
bandwagon appeals, and loaded language.
From the time we are children we are propagandized to
choose what we want to be when we grow up. Not surprising,
children tend to favor those careers considered to be heroic
role models, often gender “appropriate” ones. As we grow,
however, our values change and we pursue careers based on
our interests, aptitudes, and needs, but that doesn’t mean
we’re less prone to career propaganda.
RELEVANT LESSONS AND RESOURCES
In addition to the resources available to you in the instructional
modules on Canvas, the following resources and information
may be helpful to you in completing this assignment:
• Grossmont College Career Center, “Job Tool Box” (Resources)
• United States Dept. of Labor, “Occupations”
• Patty Hampton, “Is There Still a War for Talent or Are we Being
Propagandized?” Nonprofit HR 26 March 2015.
• Chinedu, Asonye Christian. “Unmasking Fake News and
Propaganda in the Healthcare System: Nurses Responsibility
for Patients’ Safety.” African Journal of Health Nursing and
Midwifery 4(4):52-58.
• Camacho, Roberto. “Military Recruiters are Increasingly Targeting
Latinx Students for Enlistment.” Prism 19 September 2022.
ASSIGNMENT TASK
Research and find a text about a career that interests you.
• Career means, a profession, vocation, or field of employment,
rather than part-time job.
• Text can mean just about anything as long as it communicates a
message or idea: an article, blog, pamphlet, tv commercial,
billboard, or anything similar.
• The term “interests you” may suggest you are interested in
pursuing that career, or you’re curious about the career, itself, or
you could never in a million years imagine taking up such a
vocation.
Then, in an essay of 750 to 1250 words (3-4 pages doublespaced in MLA style), summarize the rhetorical strategies and
techniques used in your chosen career text, and argue what
makes it deserving of being called “career propaganda.” You’ll
need to rely on your own complex definition of “career
propaganda” to defend your judgment.
This assignment is not asking you to select a career as a
propagandist. Rather, it’s about recognizing the ways in which
job postings and career literature use rhetoric to manipulate us
and set us up with false expectations. Find an example of career
literature, recruitment video, advertisement, etc., that perhaps
doesn’t give the complete story. To some extent, every career is
potentially vulnerable to the propagandists: some jobs are given
worse reputations than they deserve, and others, inflated to look
more rewarding than they’ll ever be. Some career texts paint a
picture of opportunities that, in reality, are as rare as winning the
lottery, while others make slippery promises about selfactualization, leadership, and other glittering generalities.
To making your overall argument convincing, you’ll need to find
other sources of career information that you’ve determine to be
factual, reliable, truthful, or objective. These can include
government surveys, real-life testimonials, interviews with career
professionals about their personal experiences, statistics about
career retention and income, etc. You won’t be able to argue
what’s specifically propagandistic about the text unless you can
contrast it to sources that aren’t career propaganda.
English 120: College Composition and Reading
DEVELOPMENT
1. Introduction (1 paragraph): A three-stage introductory
paragraph should fit entirely on the first page (title page) of
your essay and accomplish all of the following, in this order:
• As a hook/context, introduce in your own words a complex
definition of “career propaganda”!
• Introduce the articles’ full titles and authorship (if authorship is
not given, then identify instead the sponsoring agency, such as
a website or an organization).
• In your thesis, state generally why you consider the text to be a
form of career propaganda, and include several factors you’ll
take up more specifically afterward, in the body of your essay.
2. Rhetorical Analysis (3-4 parags): Devote one paragraph at a
time to examining a trait in the text that adds to its overall
propagandistic character. These may be specific claims
made by the author, or they may be persuasive appeals and
rhetorical strategies you believe the author has used to
manipulate the reader. Explain, illustrate, and critically judge
it, drawing from your complex definition of “career
propaganda” in your introduction.
3. Quotations and Paraphrase: Be sure to use other sources
to quote directly complex opinions and interpretations, and
paraphrase obvious statements of fact and statistics. Don’t
forget in-text (parenthetical) citations.
4. Conclusion: Your judgment/critical response will be your
conclusion. You don’t need to end with another formal
concluding paragraph, unless you want to.
5. Works Cited: At the end of your essay, list all citations for all
the sources used. The “Works Cited” must start on a separate
page and be paginated and be properly formatted in MLA
style, including hanging indentions and alphabetical
arrangement by primary’s author’s last name (or primary title if
no author).
Instructor: K. Sherlock
ASSESSMENT/SCORING RUBRIC
Successful completion of this assignment will be determined by
the following criteria, each of which is explained further in the
scoring rubric for this assignment:
• 1 pt. Three-stage Introduction: 1) three discernible stages of
development; 2) authors’ full names (or sponsoring agencies),
correctly spelled, and full primary title correctly capitalized and put in
double quotation marks; 3) thesis introducing rhetorical elements to
be discussed and an assessment of which text is more justly called
“career propaganda.”
• 2 pts. Rhetorical Analysis: Following the guidelines for content and
rhetorical analysis, use multiple paragraphs to compare the common
rhetorical techniques used in the text.
• 2 pts. Judgment / Critical Response: A judgment should 1) rely on a
complex definition of “career propaganda” and argue why one of the
two texts discussed is more propagandistic than the other; 2)
contextually quote and parenthetically cite a minimum of two
readings for this Unit. (See above for list of readings and explanation
of “contextual quotation”.)
• 1.5 pts. Writing Competency: Competent writing should 1) avoid
common errors of grammar, punctuation, sentence mechanics, and
usage; 2) contain effectively organized and cohesively developed
paragraphs that have controlling topic statements, clear explanation,
good use of support, and proper discussion/interpretation of these; 3)
employ effective transitions between paragraphs; 4) use language
with precision and control; 5) use a respectfully neutral tone free of
slang, vulgarity, and colloquialisms; 6) demonstrate a process of
editing and refinement before a final draft of the essay has been
submitted.
• 0.25 pts. Document Design and Style: Correct MLA style should be
demonstrate in 1) document design/layout with regard to title page,
margins, headers and pagination, and typography (font size and
types); 2) double-spacing throughout (including Works Cited);
paragraph indention; parenthetical (contextual) citations; 3)
bibliographic references organized and a Works Cited set with
hanging indentions; 4) demonstrate it has undergone an adjustment
of settings to effect MLA style, or that it you have made use of the
MLA document template.
• 0.25 pts. File Formatting: Document should 1) be saved in a
supported file type such as MS Word or PDF; 2) possess a file name
consistent with the required file-naming protocols explained at the
start of this prompt.
• 3 pts. Student Learning Outcome #1: Identify, analyze, and evaluate
the rhetorical strategies in a variety of culturally relevant texts.
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