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Navigating Rhetoric: Maximizing Understanding and Engagement

Explore different rhetorical approaches through assigned readings and discussions. Learn to identify author audience, supporting evidence, and reader engagement techniques for effective communication. Utilize University Writing Center for writing improvement. No BA assignment due this week in RaiderWriter.

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Navigating Rhetoric: Maximizing Understanding and Engagement

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  1. English 1301 Week 2: Ms. Lowery

  2. Preview of Class • Quiz • Discussion of BA 1, RW, the e-handbook…etc. Questions? • Discuss Rhetoric and goals for the course. • Rhetoric/Different Approaches/The four articles read for today • No BA due this week in RaiderWriter! • Reading 3, and additional reading due next week in class • University Writing Center • Clarifications

  3. BA 1 • How did it go? Any problems with RaiderWriter? The diagnostic? • “Tagging” the top twenty and using the hyperlinks • RaiderWriter Grading • The readings from the St. Martin’s e-handbook are important for good grades! Make sure you carefully read the assigned pages on RaiderWriter and any additional material I assign. Especially this week’s reading on the MLA chapter! • NO assignment due in RaiderWriter this weekend. We only have two weeks this semester when no assignment is due online.

  4. Navigating from RW and Blog • http://tabithalowery.wordpress.com/about/

  5. Reading Rhetorically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmqEcYcLxEcAnnotation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzrWOj0gWHU

  6. 1. What questions does the text address, explicitly or implicitly? (Why are these significant questions? What community cares about them?) • What is Diamond doing when he refers back to everyday experiences? • Why does he bring up the mechanic analogy? • What's his goal for talking about his experiences with different cultures and then connecting it with people's everyday experiences with specialists?

  7. How to identify an author’s audience: • Watch for cues in an author’s language • Watch for use of detail • These reveal assumptions about the intended audience.

  8. 2. Who’s His Audience? (Am I part of this audience or an outsider) • Page 557- Top

  9. 3. How does the author support his or her thesis with reasons and evidence? (Do I find this argument convincing? What views and counterarguments are omitted from the text? What counterevidence is ignored?) • Diamond gives a metaphor of the Ethnobiologist’s dilemma to show how in any situation, one must do research in order to understand what an expert is conveying to him. P. 561 • P. 562

  10. 4. How does the author hook the intended reader’s interest and keep the reader reading? (Do these appeals work for me? Do they make me suspicious of the author’s motives? • Mechanic metaphor (Everybody will someday encounter it) • Humor (walking encylopedias, dolts) • For a science journal, but language for the most part is accessible to a common reader

  11. Jared Diamond Article Response Jared Diamond, author of “The Ethnobiologist’s Dilemma” directs his attention to all audiences, not just to Ethnobiologists. His purpose is not only to illuminate the issues that plague people when they struggle to understand the way different cultures classify objects in their environments, but to also help people get acquainted with the idea of doing their own research, no matter the issue. His use of his personal experience with car trouble at the beginning of his piece helps conceptualize his central idea, though the placement of the scenario in the text is questionable.

  12. The University Writing Center • A writing instruction service (not an editing service) • The UWC can help with any part of the writing process (brainstorming ideas, organizing the work, proofreading, etc.). • Go in with a plan. Know what element of the work you would like the tutor to help you improve (grammar? organization? style?)

  13. UWC • Appointments last thirty minutes, so be sure to arrive on time! • The UWC services the entire university and stays busy. You will need to call and make an appointment. • If you cannot make a scheduled appointment, call and let the UWC know so they can contact someone on the waiting list. • Two no shows in one semester will result in the loss of the privilege of making appointments.

  14. UWC Contact Information • http://uwc.ttu.edu • 806.742.2476 • View the “Preparing for a Tutorial” page before your first appointment. • Online tutorials are also available!

  15. Clarification • Policies • Class Materials (Textbook, In-Class Assignment, and paper and pens- it does not look good if you come to a writing class without these materials.) • Using grader comments/keeping track of assignments

  16. Review • No BA due this weekend in RW (Friday/Saturday night off! Hurray!) • Blog #1: Commentary on BA1 • Required Reading for next week in addition to RW: • The example rhetorical analysis on my blog (under “Pages”)

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