Prompt: Construct an essay in which you analyze audience, development, rhetorical strategies/devices, appeals, purpose, underlying assumption, and power verbs and evaluate one claim (one 5 minute segment) in Call Me Intern.  Select a section that (in)directly relates to the underlying assumption about an individual’s power in the labor market (self-sufficiency, personal responsibility, controlling one’s destiny, privilege, etc.). Compare or contrast this assumption to the way it relates to the underlying assumption in the argument by Kraemer. Evaluate which of your two arguments (Call Me Intern segment or Kraemer) is more effective at persuading the intended audience and why. Integrate this in a minor way into your analysis. 

Call me intern: For Module 2, you engaged with arguments (Call Me Intern) on work’s role on life, time, and well-being. The tension is curious since an individualistic self-sufficient culture like America’s should not contain so much struggle–grind. After all, since we control our destinies, then we ought to be making a living in ways that suit our self-sufficient selves. However, Call Me Intern suggests a bold claim that the practice of exploiting young people as free labor tramples human dignity through class-based inequalities.  All of these arguments are consistent with our common underlying assumptions of American cultural individualism, which implies personal responsibility as we control our destinies, but how does that factor into who really owns the labor and time of workers? 

Kraemer: in “Stop Doing Companies’ Digital Busywork for Free,” insist that Americans have been snared into being “complicit in their own exploitation” in the digital space (13, 25). He points out that many tasks done on the internet create additional unpaid jobs for users, profitable only to the companies. Kraemer complains about the theft of his time as companies require more and more customer labor while interacting with said company. His solution takes what could be viewed as an individualized path to refrain from such unpaid labor. A solution that would not change the company operations unless many, many individuals opted out as well. A mass of individualized change is noted in North’s quote of Loomis as “a kind of ‘spontaneous realization by millions'” (30) that, coupled with Democratic agitation, might trigger change. In other words, if our work culture remains so individualistic, are we more or less likely to see favorable labor policy changes?

Your main claim may be as simple as: “In this essay, I will analyze and evaluate one claim in Call Me Intern, and I will briefly analyze then evaluate an argument by K/N/HMO/D, whose underlying assumption aligns/conflicts with that in Call Me Intern.”

Or you can get fancy with something like: On the other hand, the underlying assumption in Call Me Intern that people have a right to dignity in work conflicts with the view of Hatsukami Morgan and O’Connor that government labor policy should protect workers directly instead of pressuring companies to function with worker stability.

Criteria for Evaluation: Successful papers will accomplish the following tasks in 6 well-developed, non-repetitious paragraphs:

• Describe for a reader unfamiliar with these texts some common work related issues. Create a smooth transition to your introduction of Call Me Intern.
• Provide an accurate and complete introduction to Call Me Intern and briefly introduce your one other argument by K/N/HMO/D.
• End your introduction with a clear main claim that sets up your analysis. See the examples above. {1st paragraph}
• In one paragraph, introduce Call Me Intern’s argument with a modified rhetorical précis and audience analysis to include one piece of evidence from the film to show your own reader who the intended audience must be.  {2d paragraph}
• Analyze one claim in Call Me Intern, addressing the following tasks in an appropriate order (you need not confine each to a single sentence): clearly identify one dependent claim;
• hint at some of the major support (development for this claim;
• identify and label the evidence and reasons used to support this claim (this evidence should connect in some way to your underlying assumption);
• name one appeal being used with this development (ethos/logos/pathos) and explain how it works on the audience and how it adds power to the claim;
• comment on the purpose – what is hoped that the viewer will go out and do?
• briefly evaluate 
• how effectively this claim will persuade the viewer. {3d paragraph}
• In one paragraph, sum up from your analysis, how the argument in Call Me Intern is (in)consistent with an underlying assumption in our individualistic culture. {4th paragraph}
• Highlight this assumption from Call Me Intern to connect to the assumption in the K/N/HMO/D argument. Introduce this argument using a modified rhetorical précis, briefly analyze part of it, and evaluate how effectively it persuades its intended reader. {5th paragraph}
• Conclude by referring back to what you focused on for the Call Me Intern argument and combine your conclusion from your analysis of the K/N/HMO/D. Indicate for your reader what might be significant to him/her/them regarding work/lifestyle decisions. Highlight what new awareness or knowledge you want your own reader to gain after reading your essay.  For example, do we leave work dignity up to the individual and “free market” or do we shore it up through advocacy, unions or government policy? {6th paragraph}