Argument
True or false: The argument essay gives you sources to base your answer on
False
What is the appeal based on scientific facts, figures, statistics, and data to support an argument?
Logos
What are the three important elements to analyze in an argument?
What is the least amount of sources that you are required to have?
3
What is the scoring format that you have on the essay?
1-4-1
What is the appeal made on moral values and authority?
Ethos
What can you only find AFTER reading a text?
The purpose of the text.
What is a written discussion incorporating support from several sources of differing views?
Synthesis
When writing the argument, what is the first thing you should introduce?
A claim/thesis
What is the argument that appeals to the audience's emotions and a sense of sympathy?
Pathos
What are the parts of the SPACE protocol?
Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence
How perspective influences the text being analyzed.
What is Bias?
Where should you get your information to support your essay?
What is the problem or issue that pushed the writer to write?
Exigence
What are the characteristics that tell us how/why the author created the text?
Author credibility/background
TWO PART QUESTION: When looking at two of our past readings, what were Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton both fighting for at different points in history? What rhetorical device did both use effectively?
Women's right to vote AND logos
Look at the prompt below:
"In a 2013 New York Times article on the practice of taking selfies, writer, editor, and podcast host J Wortham wrote: “Rather than dismissing the trend as a side effect of digital culture or a sad form of exhibitionism, 1 maybe we’re better off seeing selfies for what they are at their best—a kind of visual diary, a way to mark our short existence and hold it up to others as proof that we were here.” Write an essay that argues your position on the extent to which Wortham’s claim about the value of documenting one’s life with selfies is valid.
1 behavior that is meant to attract attention to oneself"
What real world example can support the thesis "Documenting your life with selfies/videos is just as valid as someone in the past writing in a diary"
Teacher's discretion
What are the three parts of purpose that you should choose from when analyzing a text?
To persuade, to inform, or to inspire
What are rhetorical devices?
Elements such as tropes, cliches, and appeals that the author uses to develop the portrayal of their argument.
OR
The things that the author uses to help create their argument
Which part of the rubric focuses on the way that an argument flows together and analyzes the future implications of the points being made?
The sophistication point