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The Language of composition

Chapter Three Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation. The Language of composition. Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. Synthesis: What and Why. Point is to develop your own informed opinion This opinion should consider multiple perspectives and possibilities

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The Language of composition

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  1. Chapter Three Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation The Language of composition Reading, Writing, Rhetoric

  2. Synthesis: What and Why • Point is to develop your own informed opinion • This opinion should consider multiple perspectives and possibilities • We do this every day: can you think of a situation? • Research lets you “enter the conversation” • A topic with polarized views is boring

  3. Support • Any good persuasive writing offers many different types of support • Anecdotes (no doc) • Facts (your book is wrong!) • Data (document) • Expert Testimony (document) • Why document? What does it do for you?

  4. Examples of Support in Use • Callahan (63): anecdote • Ehrenreich ( 63-64): facts, quotations—experts • Williams (64-65): expert testimony as counterweight to an emotional anecdote • Hillenbrand (65-66):

  5. Support • “Sources should enhance, not replace, your argument… while sources inform your own ideas, support or illustrate them, or demonstrate your understanding of opposing views, what you have to say is the main event; your position is central” (65). • Assignment p. 66

  6. Relationship of Sources to Aud • Analyze the rhetorical situation in order to figure out how sources and documentation should be used • Ex. Moses – aud is broad, general, interested in personal information – so sources are interviews, rather than statistics • Ex. Shea – aud is literary magazine for writers – evidence is more formal and diverse (so is documentation) • Ex. Loichat– aud is scholars and researchers – so evidence is from other scholarly works, very formal documentation

  7. Assignment p. 72 • Look at 4 columns by a single author: what can you determine about his/her audience based on sources used?

  8. Synthesis Essay • Your goal is the same as that of the samples we’ve read: “to support and illustrate your own ideas and to establish your credibility as a member of the academic community that values the ‘conversation’” (72) • Documentation may be formal or informal, depending on situation

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