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The files listed below contain advice directed to Humanities Core assignments from previous cycles. Although the advice may not be specific to the details of your current assignment, it may nevertheless be valuable. Core assignments are often organized around rhetorical tasks, so there are common features from cycle to cycle. The rhetorical task featured in the assignment appears in boldface type following the quarter and year when the assignment was given.

Core Handouts from Previous Years

Laws and Orders

    2003-2004

Fall Quarter 2003 assignment #1    Definition

Fall Quarter 2003 assignment #2    Rhetorical Analysis
Fall Quarter 2003 assignment #3    Counterargument
Winter Quarter 2004 assignment #1    Textual Explication
Winter Quarter 2004 assignment #2    Image Analysis
Winter Quarter 2004 assignment #3    Comparison / Contrast
Spring Quarter 2004 assignment #1     Causal Analysis
Spring Quarter 2004 assignment #2 (annotated bibliography
Spring Quarter 2004 assignment #3 (the research paper)

    2001-2002

Fall Quarter 2001 assignment #2        Rhetorical Analysis
Winter Quarter 2002 assignment #1    Image Analysis
Winter Quarter 2002 assignment #2    Textual Explication
 

Exploration and Discovery    

    2000-2001

Fall Quarter 2000 assignment #1    Definition (In-class)
Fall Quarter 2000 assignment #1    Definition (supplement)
Fall Quarter 2000 assignment #2    Counterargument
Fall Quarter 2000 assignment #3    Rhetorical Analysis
Fall Quarter 2000 assignment #4    Image Analysis
Winter Quarter 2001 assignment #1    Textual Analysis
Winter Quarter 2001 assignment #2    Textual Explication
Winter Quarter 2001 assignment #3    Comparison / Contrast
Spring Quarter 2001 assignment #1     Causal Analysis
Spring Quarter 2001 assignment #2 (annotated bibliography)

    1999-2000

Spring Quarter 2000 assignment #1    Evaluation of Sources
Rap Response Winter Quarter 1999

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