SPACE CAT
What the speaker is hoping to accomplish.
What is the purpose?
40 minutes
What is the suggested time you write the RA essay?
55 minutes
What is the suggested amount of time to write a synthesis essay?
40 minutes
what is the suggested amount of time to write the argument essay?
break it into segments: beginning, middle, end
What is the first step?
Why now for the speaker what made the speaker act now.
What is exigence?
chronological order
How do you order the rhetorical choices?
3 sources
How many sources you should be using?
If you don't do this you're not an AP student
Answer the prompt
highlight abstract words
what is step two?
Choices, appeals, tone
What is the CAT in SPACE CAT?
How many pieces of evidence should you use?
2 per rhetorical choice or 6 total
Highlight importance through surrounding paragraphs
what to include in a topic sentence?
How do you show both sides of the argument?
counterargument and why yours is right
underline/highlights the text
what to do across the text?
Ethos, pathos, logos
What are the types of appeals, but not what you write in your thesis?
What to do at the end of every body paragraph?
Argue ideas not things
What should you always do?
specific
what your evidence should be?
abstract words that come to mind
What to do on the left margin?
What does SPACE CAT stand for?
Speaker, purpose, audience, context, exigence, choices, appeals, tone
How do you frame a thesis?
Speaker (significance in the exigence), potential counter or rather than, purpose, by rhetorical choices, ultimately to...
are the synthesis essay and a dbq the same?
NOOOO
What must you have in your evidence?
a proper noun
rhetorical choices
what to write on the right margin?