Draft1.1: Finding CH10 Relations

1. Draft1.1: Finding CH10 Relations • Your Draft1.1 is an analysis of the article you find • You need to look at your article and make a claim about it in terms of writing principles • This is NOT you claiming something about the content of your article (e.g. its position on a certain topic and your position) but rather about the effectiveness of the article writing

2. Draft1.1: Finding CH10 Relations • A claim about effectiveness can be positive or negative – but positive may well be easier

3. Best Way to Start Effort… • Read everything…get to know articles • Identify what each article uses (principles) • Find the patterns between your object articles • Intersecting patterns between articles • Likely need 3 points for discussion (estimate) • Form a working thesis (How do rhetorical devices impact reader?) • Write Rough Draft - Follow Particular Structure • Intro&Thesis / Proof 1 / Proof 2 / Proof 3 / Conc. • REFINE Working Thesis • Writing essays is a multiple-draft, cyclic process

4. Some Writing Devices • Repetition (words or motifs) • Style – Humor, Business, Descriptive… • Appeals (emotion, fact, ethics) • Tone – somber, upbeat, fatalistic… • Figurative language (metaphor, simile, metonymy) • Analogies (comparison between 2 things in order to explain one) • Rhyme (poetic qualities) • Word choice (unique/interesting/unusual words) • Wordplay (words used in unusual ways – ex: puns, double-entendres) • Organization (forms other than thesis/proof) • Deliberate/Overt Exaggeration • Deliberate/Overt Violations of Grammar (e.g. Cormac McCarthy / e.e cummings) There are more possibilities…. Writing principles refer to anything involving the particulars/elements of writing. They are also sometimes called rhetorical devices

5. Group Work – Do the exact same thing for Draft1.1 work • Rick Reilly + at least 2 Ch10 articles (group choice) • Identify the patterns (i.e. principles-in-common) • What does Reilly use? Who in CH10 uses same principle? • Break the text up into little parts…analyze pcs • Craft a thesis statement (Claim / Reasons) • How does the rhetorical devices impact the reader? • If time – select some quotes to support reasons

6. Chapter 10 Articles I Might Consider Using With Reilly • Sedaris – his humor is based on a painful experience / Reilly uses humor to discuss a life-death issue (humor and pathos in common) • Douglass – his use of metaphor, or even repetition of certain key words here – read and write, perhaps better…learn. These 1-3 words are the key to freedom, to “life,” and his writing centers around those words in the same way Reilly’s centers around net. • Rodriguez – use of anecdotes/vignettes…Reilly uses anecdotes (little stories as well). Rodriguez also uses catch-phrases (i.e. particular words) los gringos, etc to make his writing personal • Malcolm X – words/books as salvation…single motif (i.e. book, or education) can change a life. With Reilly, the right word (net) applied can save, and thus change, a life. X also uses wordplay – “skin game”/”What’s your alma mater? Books” His words are also very controversial – rape, narcotized, war. • bell hooks – note strong emotional appeals here…also the different voices (italics). The emotion comes from what? Her word choice, and the form of writing. Also, again, very strong repetition like Reilly. • Silko – motif of the story / storytelling as the means of expressing meaning and linking people with a common culture. Reilly joins us in his plea by telling us the things that we identify with as well (thru culture)… McDonald’s, Angelina Jolie, Little Justin’s Kickin Kangaroos, etc. Identity thru using words and language in a particular way. We are big into celebrity – Reilly uses that. Also relates to Rodriguez in same way. This is to some degree an alternative argument you could make… • Orwell – he is playing with words/inventing words…Reilly is doing some of that with one word. Further, he is using humor to make a point about a very serious issue (e.g. joycamp for forced labor camp)…words/language used in humorous ways with a very serious meaning behind it.

7. Example Thesis Rick Reilly’s article fuses humor writing concerning a serious subject with strong wordplay in order to generate strong dynamic appeals. (appeals refers to logos, pathos, ethos) My Object (to analyze) is the Reilly article. My Claim: Reilly generates strong dynamic appeals Reasons (How/Why): humor of serious subj, repetition Sources: Sedaris, Orwell…maybe even Douglass/X? Could I use just one kind of principle? In this case, maybe…and maybe not.

8. Example Thesis In “Nothing but Nets,” Rick Reilly uses sports analogies, a play on words, and a conversational tone to create a personal understanding with the reader. The thesis is a ROAD MAP for your reader My Object (to analyze) is the Reilly article. Claim: Reilly creates a personal understanding with the reader (i.e. a personal connection) Reasons (How/Why): sports analogies, a play on words, a conversational tone POSSIBLE Sources: Sedaris, hooks, maybe even X here (tone), Orwell (word play), Silko (analogies)

9. October 14: Participation Grade Bring a TYPED Outline of your Draft1.1 Essay • Working Thesis Sentence (Claim/Reason) • Topic Sentence for first Reason • 1-2 Quotes from article that support this (name article) 3. Topic sentence for second Reason • 1-2 Quotes from article that support this (name article) 4. Topic Sentence for third Reason • 1-2 Quotes from article that support this (name article) Only have 2 Reasons/Proofs? Use 3 quotes per Reason You will turn this in – make 2 copies (i.e. one for you)