Essay I Instructions

This assignment is intended to use your skills in description and awareness of rhetorical situation.

Instructions: Choose an image that you find interesting. It could be most anything: an assortment of desserts, a group of college students walking across campus, a street-scene in the New York financial district. It may be a photo, a drawing, painting, cartoon, or something else. The only restrictions are these:

1. The image must not be famous or otherwise well-known. It should not come from a current magazine or any other source that might cause classmates to recognize it.
2. The image must be available electronically, so that we can project it in the classroom. Scanned images of personal photos are fine.

In a 1000-1200 word essay, describe the image as fully as possible. Your audience is the rest of the class. Your essay's goal is to help your readers visualize your image as completely as possible, without having seen it first. At some point after the essays are due, the class will have an opportunity to compare your image with your description.


Due date is Thursday, September 18. Submission guidelines will be announced.