Editorial Arguments Portfolio, Author's Note

This portfolio focuses on the greater issue of academic misconduct among university professors, and on the specific issue of the recent firing of professor Ward Churchill from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Each piece is geared for the newspaper reaching Denver and Boulder, The Denver Post. All three of the pieces that I have submitted express my opinion that students and administrators should be cautious in accepting the word of their professors and employees as truth. I believe there should be more strict standards for professors and a zero-tolerance policy for academic misconduct within the professorial community. I establish ethos in this portfolio by using personal experience as a college student. The stories that I use are also used to appeal to the pathos of readers. The logos comes from research of university policies and local newspaper articles. The assignments themselves have been posted on eCollege in the doc sharing section, selected to be shared with the professor only and the other assignments are located on this blog. I will be turning in the humorous piece for this portfolio separately, as it is a cartoon and is not in an electronic format. All that said, my portfolio includes three separate pieces: a letter to the editor, an op-ed piece, and a humorous piece, all of which revolve around the same topic.

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