Reputation+Paper

** Introduction: ** One of the major topics of discussion in Othello is the importance of a ‘reputation’. Sometimes a person can spend their entire life working towards a positive image and winning over popular support, but with one bad decision, that entire reputation can be smeared. Now the question is: can a person win back their good name once they’ve lost it? ** Assignment: ** ** ONE PAGE MIN/MAX. ** Identify someone in modern culture today who has fallen down the ranks of public opinion. Perhaps they got into legal trouble, said something they shouldn’t have said, or embarrassed themselves doing something ‘stupid’. For your essay tonight, I want you to provide a step by step description of what this person did and what YOU believe they now need to do in order to ‘fix’ their good name.  I. Thesis Statement  A. Describe why they were well liked before  B. Describe what changed everyone’s opinion about them  C. Step by step, what do you believe they need to do in order to restore their name.  D. Discuss whether you believe this person actually has the ability to follow through with the steps needed. This paper is going to focus on ** DIRECTION **. Since you are going to be taking your audience through an up-and-down story of heart break and redemption, you’ll need lots of adjectives and adverbs so that your reader can follow all the different emotional directions you want to take them.   unfortunately, unwisely, poorly, immaturely, offended, recklessly, carelessly, selfishly, foolishly, took for granted, short sighted, thoughtlessly, illegally, Steps: You’ll need transitions that list the steps the individual has to take. Here are some great sequence transitions that help organize these kind of essays.   first, second, third, next, afterwards, following that, right after, moving forward, also, additionally, more important, most importantly, finally, lastly, eventually, ultimately *Just like last time, bring in one copy of your paper complete and one copy ready to cut-up for our class activity we’ve been working on this week. Remember, give your readers clues as to how this paper should flow. Use cue words, transitions, trailing ideas, and as always, it helps if you spell and punctuate correctly J.
 * “Reputation, reputation, reputation”  **