All the World's a Stage
Theatre 130 Essay Assignment #5
Nancy Taylor Porter
Illinois College
Instruction: written out
Stimulus: play, essay, part of course text chapter
Cognitive Demand: synthesis, invention, definition, application, argument
Purpose: to create, to persuade
Role: self/detached observer
Audience: specified group
Content: theoretical
Rhetorical Specification: Exposition, Argument
Tone/Style: medium formality
Advanced Preparation: reading (play, argumentative article, handout on what makes a
good definition and how to write an argumentative essay), class discussion,
pre-paper
Length: 3-4 pages
Format: specified
Time: 10 days
Draft: definition and thesis part of essay
Criteria: grading rubric
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