What is democracy

Length: 1,000 words minimum, no more than 1,200 words

Weight: 15% of overall grade

Task Overview: Explain democracy and/or the importance of democracy to a specific audience in a blog post.

Process: Well begin this unit by developing an understanding of what democracy is. Youll then be assigned an audience to share your knowledge with.

Once you have your audience, youll think about how to best explain democracy, or its importance, to this audience. You might ask yourself the following questions: what does my audience already know? What does my audience care about? How do they feel about democracy already? How educated is my audience? What level of vocabulary would work best for them? And more.

Well spend some time in class talking about the expectations of writing a blog and looking at examples.

You will then draft your project in phases, participate in peer review, and submit a final draft for evaluation. Once you receive feedback from your professor, youll be able to revise your paper for a better grade.

Evaluation: Your project will be evaluated holistically based on the following criteria.

Rhetorical Knowledge – You should clearly communicate your message to your assigned audience in a way that appeals to them. Your project should adhere to the genre conventions of a blog.

Development and Critical Thinking – your project should be well-developed, clearly explaining the concept of democracy and/or its importance. Your project should use specific examples. Your project should make use of at least one formal method of critical thinking: interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, and/or argument/explanation. Additionally, your project should demonstrate and/or encourage at least one of the dispositional behaviors of critical thinking: truth seeking, confidence in reason, inquisitiveness, open-mindedness, intellectual perseverance, systematicity, and/or intellectual humility.

Organization – the organization of your project should be logical and easy to follow. You should transition between sections and/or ideas. Your paragraphs should feel focused

Conventions of Style and Usage – your project should be well-edited, using language appropriate for your audience. Your project should be formatted like a blog post.

Use of Sources – sources arent required for this project; you should primarily rely on common knowledge, your own understanding of democracy, and personal examples from your own life. If you do use sources, they should be linked within your text and use appropriate signal phrases. If you decide to use sources, you may use any of the texts weve covered in class.

The audience is immigrants who have recently moved to the United States from a non democratic country

Also, if possible, could you send me the rough draft and the finial writing