ENGLISH 1301
Sec 69/72
ND
2
WEEK
The overview of today’s class
• The review of what we did last week
• Discussing 8 essential questions in First-Year
Writing
• Group work: create a group (4 or 5 persons per
group), then discuss how to apply the 8
questions to the articles we read for today.
• How to write a paragraph academically.
• What is summary?Paraphrase? (if we have
enough time)
• Assignment for the next week.
• The review of the day
Review from the last week
• Rhetoric is a manner of speech to influence
the reader
• Ethos: trustworthiness
• Pathos: emotion
• Logos: logic
• How to use St. Martin’s Handbook
• Any questions about Raider Writer?
FROM THE 8 QUESTIONS IN FIRST-YEAR WRITING
What
question does the text address, explicitly or
implicitly?
Who
is the intended audience?
How
does the author support his or her thesis with
reasons and evidence?
How
does the author hook the intended reader’s
interest and keep the reader reading?
How
does the author make himself or herself seem
credible to the intended audience?
How
do I respond to this text?
GROUP WORK
Apply
the questions to the articles we
have read for today.
Who
are their intended audiences?
How
do the authors support their claim?
What kind of evidence do they provide?
What
You
is the purposes of the articles?
have 10 min to talk about.
WHAT MAKES A PARAGRAPH GOOD
A
hook: a transitional phrase from the
previous paragraph.
A
topic sentence: a sentence that
introduces a topic of the paragraph.
Your
discussion: your idea coupled with
evidence as well as your logical
explanation/interpretation of the
evidence.
A
conclusive sentence: a summary of
the paragraph
WHAT IS SUMMARY?
Summary
includes…
A concise articulation of the main
idea(s) of articles.
Authors’ purpose
Intended audiences.
Why
do we need to summarize when
you write a rhetorical analysis paper?
PARAPHRASE
Paraphrase
is…
Restatement
of an original text in YOUR
OWN WORDS.
It
often concerns a particular passage or
action (see the difference from
summary)
Do
not change words sporadically (it is
not a paraphrase!).
ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK 1
First-Year
Writing: Chapter 2 pp. 16-21; Chapter 3
pp. 37-46, 51-61
Sven Birkerts: "Into the Electronic Millennium" pp. 226233
Tina Rosenberg: "Everyone Speaks Text Message" pp.
267-271
St.
Martin's Handbook: Chapter 12 f 2,
"Paraphrases" & Chapter 12 f 3, "Summaries"; Write
on Tutorials, "Summarizing and Paraphrasing
Sources"
Audio
Lesson: Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis
ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK 2
No
BA for next week!
2nd Participation assignment
Read
the news paper article on our
course web and summarize it (250-300
words).
Paraphrase
a paragraph from “So he
decided to start…” (80-130 words)
Type
it out and bring it to the next
class. Don’t forget to put your name.
REVIEW OF THE WEEK
8
questions you need to ask as you read.
Good
paragraph consists: hook, topic
sentence, analysis, conclusive sentence
Summary
is to articulate article’s… main
ideas, intended audience, purpose.
Paraphrase
is to restate an original text
IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Do
not even imitate original syntax.
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