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English 1301 4 th week

English 1301 4 th week. Section 15&16. Article’s purpose is NOT same with what an article is about. If so, how can we identify the purpose? Suppose a content of an article as a story (what an article is about). A story often has its meaning (moral education etc.).

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English 1301 4 th week

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  1. English 1301 4th week Section 15&16

  2. Article’s purpose is NOT same with what an article is about. If so, how can we identify the purpose? • Suppose a content of an article as a story (what an article is about). A story often has its meaning (moral education etc.). • Finding an article’s purpose is finding a meaning of a story. • By discussing a subject, what does the article try to DO? An article in general wants you to be persuaded. The question is what is that the article wants you to do? Does it want you to think? Does it want you to act on something? Identify what an article asks you to do! Be specific! What is article’s purpose?

  3. Because rhetorical choices are deployed to influence the reader, it is necessary to identify the reader. • Because rhetorical choices are used to convincingly argue about something, it is also necessary to identify what the purpose is. • Thus, your discussion must correspond with your understanding of the intended reader and the purpose. • St. Martin’s Handbook: “Writer’s table” in 7b, is useful to see how to analyze. Also 8d,9e,f,g have lists of appeals you can look for in an article. How to discuss rhetorical choices

  4. Purpose Critical reading and listening Intended audience Rhetorical choice

  5. Audience & purpose

  6. Audience & purpose

  7. Questions you need to ask • How does a rhetorical choice influence the reader? • What purpose does the author seem to have in making such a choice? Note: When you discuss a rhetorical choice ALWAYS bring an example from the article. How to discuss rhetorical choices 2

  8. Humor • Invective language • Juxtaposition • Repetition • Satire • References (history, culture, authority, etc) Rhetorical choices

  9. What do you think Birkerts’s purpose? Who do you think his audience? • Where is it published? • Who is Birkerts? • What is the article about? Audience & purpose

  10. Please find Birkerts’s rhetorical choice(s) and articulate how it works. Your articulation requires discussion of why his rhetorical choice is effective in relation to the audience and purpose. Group work

  11. Examples of ba3

  12. When you quote something, in-text citation comes at the end of the sentence. • If you introduce author’s name in the sentence, you can omit putting the author’s name in in-text citation. Just put the page number. • Use proper verbs when you introduce quotes. Does he “argue”? Or does he just “state”? What does he try to do with a phrase/sentence you quote? See St. Martin’s Handbook’s 13-b “Working with Quotation” for examples. Mla citation (quoting)

  13. Purpose: To demonstrate your ability to identify specific rhetorical choices made by a writer • Description: The major essay in this course is a rhetorical analysis. In order to write a rhetorical analysis, one of the first things you will need to do is identify some of the rhetorical choices made by the writer that you can examine in your analysis.  Remember, a rhetorical analysis focuses on how a writer makes meaning. A rhetorical analysis looks at the devices or tools that a writer uses to persuade, inform, and/or entertain his or her audience.  A writer, for instance, may choose to use technical jargon in a text. In a rhetorical analysis, you would examine the use of and effectiveness of that choice to use jargon.  However, to determine the effectiveness of the writer’s choices, you must first determine what the writer’s purpose is and who the writer’s audience is. • For this brief assignment, using the text you will analyze for your Draft 1.1, please do the following: • ·Identify the audience and purpose of the piece. Be as specific as possible and support your identification with a brief explanation (100-200 words). • ·  Identify five rhetorical choices made by the author and describe how each choice relates to the intended audience and purpose. (Is the rhetorical choice effective for the intended audience? How does the rhetorical choice support the purpose of the text?) Your description of each rhetorical choice should be the length of one paragraph. You can include an example from the text to support your identification (i.e. direct quote).  Ba3(due 2/15)

  14. St. Martin's Handbook Chapter 3a-3c, "Exploring a Topic," "Narrowing a Topic," "Drafting a Working Thesis"; Chapter 10h, "Moving from Hypothesis to Working Thesis"; and Chapter 15a, "Refining Your Plans". • First-Year Writing Ch 2 pp. 22-36 Reading assignment (due 2/18)

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