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ENGL1301 – Week 4

ENGL1301 – Week 4. Rhetorical Choices!. Quick Free-write. What did you think of the BA2? What parts were challenging? What parts were easy? How can you apply these skills to the work you will do in your major?. Critical Reading Strategies. How do you read?

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ENGL1301 – Week 4

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  1. ENGL1301 – Week 4 Rhetorical Choices!

  2. Quick Free-write • What did you think of the BA2? What parts were challenging? What parts were easy? How can you apply these skills to the work you will do in your major?

  3. Critical Reading Strategies • How do you read? • Write as you read! (Follow along in FYW, pp. 38-46) • Pre-Readings: • Recall background knowledge • Visual Elements to Plan & Predict • Spot Reading • Mark Unfamiliar Terms & References • Identify Points of Difficulty • Annotate!

  4. Critical Reading Strategies (Pt. 2!) • Post-Reading: • Summarize the essay and Paraphrase important sections • Write a Rhetorical Précis • Review your annotations (items to look up, points you need to clarify) • Re-Read! • Remember FYW, p. 54: Verbs that Describe What Texts Do • In Groups: Review your Rhetorical Précis

  5. Annotations • Review an Annotated Essay: “The Conscience of a Nation” – FYW, p. 62-64 • In Groups: Categorize the annotations as specifically as possible

  6. Back to “Toys”… • Annotate “Toys” using the “Verbs” on FYW p. 54

  7. Rhetoric! • Rhetoric: The Art of speaking or writing effectively. • Aristotle says rhetoric is “the ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion.” He described main rhetorical strategies*: • Ethos: Speaker-perceived credibility or reputation of the speaker. Level of respect and honor given to the speaker by the audience. (FYW, pp. 69-70) *(Note: Not rhetorical choices.)

  8. Rhetoric! (Part 2) • Pathos: Audience. Appeals to the audience’s emotions. (FYW, pp. 73-74) • Logos: Words. An appeal to logic. A demonstration of proof. (FYW, pp. 70-73) • Sample in FYW on pp. 574-577.

  9. Rhetorical Choices • Identify • Independence Day: http://youtu.be/QoLywiaM6PA • Look at your BA2 essays: Identify 5 rhetorical choices in the essay. • Look at Chapters 8 – 9 in the Bedford St. Martin’s Handbook.

  10. The BA3 • https://raiderwriter.engl.ttu.edu/ • DUE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

  11. Additional Homework • Read “Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women’s Work” by Barbara Ehrenreich (FYW, pp. 330-335) • Via Email, color groups need to discuss the 3 questions in the “Looking at Rhetoric” section on page 335 • CC me on the email chain (sarah.sprouse@ttu.edu) • Need to send at minimum 2 emails

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