The last four pictures come from a park located above the Missouri River in Leavenworth. I enjoy walking along North Esplanade Park and often take my camera with me. The park where I used to walk has been closed off since March because of the flooding.
The students were asked to take a position in the argumentative synthesis. That view from a solitary park bench has been enlarged to show the incorporation of more sources in the expanded argumentative synthesis. The revision assignment reveals the rapidly approaching end of the semester. Earlier, the students are greeted with the serenity of the introductory materials before they start taking a path in the first week of class and cross a bridge into critical reading for the rhetorical analysis. The picture for the informative synthesis, on the other hand, is the closest thing, and the most realistic, to what the students face in that assignment as they compare and contrast what appears in three articles on the same topic.
Long before I decided to pursue degrees in English, I wanted to be a photographer. I had enlisted in the Air Force with that intention right after I finished high school, only to learn that I am color blind and not qualified for that career field in the military. That initial interest in photography appears in my playing with the pictures that my students see in Canvas.