All identity, all meaning, is bound up in relationships. To understand the meaning of anything or anyone, we need to think deeply about the nature of its relationships. To do this, we must go beyond the surface meaning of those relationships, beyond our initial understanding of their general meaning or role.

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Requirements: 1,000-1,200

Essay 2: Explaining Relationships

Assignment:

All identity, all meaning, is bound up in relationships. To understand the meaning of anything or anyone, we need to think deeply about the nature of its relationships. To do this, we must go beyond the surface meaning of those relationships, beyond our initial understanding of their general meaning or role. We must peel back those first layers of conventional thinking to uncover the significance of a particular relationship—its hidden dynamics and unexpected meaning. When we are willing to do this, we discover insight that is not only valuable for ourselves: We discover insight that can matter to others.

Develop a 900- to 1,200-word essay about a relationship you have experienced or observed in your everyday life. Be careful of the obvious human/human relationship (between, for instance, you and your significant other). Such a focus might lead you to conventional ways of thinking, and our goal is to discover something unique or different about the web of connections we experience. Consider, for example, the relationships between people and machines, between two people and some object, between a person and a place, between yourself and a daily ritual and the objects of that ritual.

Use the helpful sections from Chapter 3 in The Composition of Everyday Life: discover a topic (Point of Contact); develop ideas about the topic (Analysis); make those ideas relevant to a community of readers (Public Resonance); develop a focus (Thesis); generate support (Rhetorical Tools).

Some sample topics that have worked before:

Unexpected meaning in the relationship between a Beyonce fan and Beyonce’s music or public persona

Less obvious ways TikTok has influenced your self-image and relationships with others

Strange and risky things you have done for a romantic relationship and what that says about you, romance, and the relationship

Hidden dynamics of your relationship with a certain place

Less obvious aspects of the relationship between coyotes, squirrels, or birds and your backyard or neighborhood

The subtle significance of a library or park or shelter or service to your community—explores the nature of the relationship, revealing a not-so-obvious meaning

Purpose:

The goal of the essay is explanation and analysis, and not merely general recollections about your relationship or merely storytelling. Although you might very likely employ narrative elements to help depict your relationship, your goal is to explore your subject in depth and discover/develop a significant insight about the nature of the relationship that gives both yourself and others the opportunity to think differently about the relationship.

Considerations:

The Main Idea: Remember that you need to discover and develop a thesis/main idea. The thesis of the essay is not simply the topic (what the essay is “about”), nor should it be a general, first thought about your relationship (“this relationship is supportive”; “it is difficult”; “it has its ups and downs”; “it is loving”). Instead, try to uncover some hidden complexity in your relationship; try to discover significance and new insight about your relationship.

Details: Use specific details about the relationship to support and develop your focused main idea. Not only do you need to explain the details of the relationship as well as describe the people, places, and things involved and possibly narrate an event or series of them, most importantly you will need to analyze the relationship for your readers to reveal to them the important idea you’ve discovered in the relationship. This means you will have a combination of explanation, description, narration, and a heavy dose of analysis for your details in this essay.

Public Resonance: Remember that you are not writing entirely for yourself. You are writing to explain something for others. The particular relationship you are explaining may be specific and narrow (perhaps between two people), but it may suggest something beyond the particular—something that is relevant and important to your readers. Exploring pubic resonance can be hard work. But the process takes writers somewhere important, even vital: to new insights.

Organization: As an academic audience, we want to see coherent paragraphs and smooth transitions between points. (See organizational strategies in Chapter 17 for hints and suggestions.) Have an introduction, body, and conclusion. Divide ideas into paragraphs purposefully. Use the introduction to strategically focus us on the specific situation or insight in the essay. Use the conclusion to reinforce the key insight of the essay, not merely to summarize. Have a clearly stated thesis statement.

Writer’s Voice and Audience: Consider your classroom peers and instructor the direct audience of the essay. We are an academic audience, so we value insightful writing and a formal voice—but as you can see from the examples in the chapter, an academic voice for such writing can be relaxed. As you explore the voice of your writing, try the various strategies explained in the book. After you have a draft, go back and emphasize the character that you want readers to experience. Grammar and Mechanics: Check the assignment rubric for a detailed account of the grammatical and sentence-level issues to consider.

Assessment Rubric: Remembering Who You Were

Invention Writing

The invention writing attempts to revise thinking, uncover meaning, or discover significance;

explores key questions—going beyond a mere answer or quick response;

works toward public resonance (connecting the personal to a broader insight);

works toward a focused and revelatory main idea (thesis);

and evolves into the final essay.

Rhetorical Tools

The essay uses specific details about the relationship to build a focused main idea.

The essay attempts to: revise thinking, uncover meaning, or discover significance.

The essay illustrates a rigorous analysis of the relationship.

The essay integrates specific and supportive details from invention writing.

Organizational Strategies

The paragraphs are coherent and transitions are made between paragraphs.

The paragraphs remain focused on and help to develop the main idea.

The introduction strategically focuses us on the specific situation or insight in the essay.

The conclusion does not merely summarize, but reinforces the key insight of the essay.

Writer’s Voice

Language is appropriate for academic readers.

The writing avoids using clichés as insights.

The writing speaks with rather than at the readers.

Present “I” is functional—and avoided if unnecessary.

Sentence Vitality and Structure

Sentence structure works to engage readers and develop thinking.

Sentence length is appropriately varied in length and style.

The essay is free of sentence fragments, fused sentences, comma splices, and mixed constructions.

Sentences have vitality (and are not slowed by expletives, wordy phrases, and unnecessary clauses).

Vocabulary level develops the readers’ thinking and communicates sophisticated ideas.

Words are used accurately to develop the ideas of the essay.

Grammar/Mechanics/Usage

The essay follows academic conventions for:

capitalization

punctuation

spelling

subject/verb agreement

verb forms/tense

pronoun/antecedent agreement

Also, the essay has been carefully edited.

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