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Week 1 Project

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By the due date assigned, submit your rough draft of at least 500 words to the Discussion Area as a Microsoft Word document. By the end of the week, respond to at least two classmates with reviews of their drafts.

Resources:

Read the information for writing your essay in chapter 8 of your text, Writing Arguments. On pages 170-174, you will see an example of a rhetorical analysis essay. Create your essay in the APA Basic Essay Template 6th Edition.

Prompt:

For this assignment, you will write a rough draft of a rhetorical analysis essay and submit it to the Discussion Area.  After you post your rough draft, you will provide feedback to two peers using the discussion participation questions below.

Step 1:

Read “Womb for Rent,” by Ellen Goodman, located on page 169 in our text, Writing Arguments.

Reference

Goodman, E. (2016). Womb for rent. In J. Ramage, J. Bean & J. Johnson (Eds.), Writing arguments: A rhetoric with readings (p. 169). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Use the APA Citation Helper or the APA Citations Quick Sheet for help to correctly cite the article.

Step 2:

Write a 500-word rough draft of your essay in five paragraphs, following the guidelines below. Use the APA formatted template in which to compose your rough draft.

1. In the introduction, engage the reader’s interest in the issues of the article. Indicate why you are interested in the issues. Present your thesis, telling your readers that you will examine Goodman’s use of logic and of emotion in her essay.
2. In the second paragraph, summarize the argument and its main points of the article you are analyzing so your readers will know what you are talking about.
3. As you said in your thesis, explain, develop, and discuss the use of logic and the use of emotion in two separate paragraphs.
4. In your concluding paragraph, wrap up your analysis. Share why it is an important issue to understand.

Step 3:

By the end of the week, respond to at least two of your peers’ posts, using the following questions to guide your responses:

• What was your classmate’s main point? What evidence did he or she use as support?
• Help your peer with APA in-text citations and references and overall formatting so they can make corrections before submitting the final draft.
• Let the writer know what you think are the best aspects of the rough draft.

By the due date assigned, submit your rough draft as a Microsoft Word document to the Discussion Area.

(Reading Material):

Womb for Rent 

  ellen goodman    

By now we all have a story about a job outsourced beyond our reach in the global economy. My own favorite is about the California publisher who hired two reporters in India to cover the Pasadena city government. Really. There are times as well when the offshoring of jobs takes on a quite literal meaning. When the labor we are talking about is, well, labor. In the last few months we’ve had a full nursery of international stories about surrogate mothers. Hundreds of couples are crossing borders in search of lower-cost ways to fill the family business. In turn, there’s a new coterie of international workers who are gestating for a living. Many of the stories about the globalization of baby production begin in India, where the government seems to regard this as, literally, a growth industry. In the little town of Anand, dubbed “The Cradle of the World,” 45 women were recently on the books of a local clinic. For the production and delivery of a child, they will earn $5,000 to $7,000, a decade’s worth of women’s wages in rural India. 5   But even in America, some women, including Army wives, are supplementing their income by contracting out their wombs. They have become surrogate mothers for wealthy couples from European countries that ban the practice. This globalization of baby-making comes at the peculiar intersection of a high reproductive technology and a low-tech work force. The biotech business was created in the same petri dish as Baby Louise, the first IVF baby. But since then, we’ve seen conception outsourced to egg donors and sperm donors. We’ve had motherhood divided into its parts from genetic mother to gestational mother to birth mother and now contract mother. We’ve also seen the growth of an international economy. Frozen sperm is flown from one continent to another. And patients have become medical tourists, searching for cheaper health care whether it’s a new hip in Thailand or an IVF treatment in South Africa that comes with a photo safari thrown in for the same price. Why not then rent a foreign womb? I don’t make light of infertility. The primal desire to have a child underlies this multinational Creation, Inc. On one side, couples who choose surrogacy want a baby with at least half their own genes. On the other side, surrogate mothers, who are rarely implanted  with their own eggs, can believe that the child they bear and deliver is not really theirs. As one woman put it, “We give them a baby and they give us much-needed money. It’s good for them and for us.” A surrogate in Anand used the money to buy a heart operation for her son. Another raised a dowry for her daughter. And before we talk about the “exploitation” of the pregnant woman, consider her alternative in Anand: a job crushing glass in a factory for $25 a month. 10   Nevertheless, there is—and there should be—something uncomfortable about a free market approach to baby-making. It’s easier to accept surrogacy when it’s a gift from one woman to another. But we rarely see a rich woman become a surrogate for a poor family. Indeed, in Third World countries, some women sign these contracts with a fingerprint because they are illiterate. For that matter, we have not yet had stories about the contract workers for whom pregnancy was a dangerous occupation, but we will. What obligation does a family that simply contracted for a child have to its birth mother? What control do—should—contractors have over their “employees’” lives while incubating “their” children? What will we tell the offspring of this international trade? “National boundaries are coming down,” says bioethicist Lori Andrews, “but we can’t stop human emotions. We are expanding families and don’t even have terms to deal with it.” It’s the commercialism that is troubling. Some things we cannot sell no matter how good “the deal.” We cannot, for example, sell ourselves into slavery. We cannot sell our children. But the surrogacy business comes perilously close to both of these deals. And international surrogacy tips the scales. So, these borders we are crossing are not just geographic ones. They are ethical ones. Today the global economy sends everyone in search of the cheaper deal as if that were the single common good. But in the biological search, humanity is sacrificed to the economy and the person becomes the product. And, step by step, we come to a stunning place in our ancient creation story. It’s called the marketplace.