The Three Appeals and an Example Essay

First of all, remember rhetoric? Look at the assignment handout for this paper.

Aristotle's Three Appeals:  Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

Okay, let's hear it from someone else.  Let's try coming up with examples from your papers.

And if you still need help, try this.

Now, read "It's Not Just a Bike" by Lacey Taylor in The Bedford Guide on pages 188-189.

Answer the questions on the handout in your daybook.  Be thorough!

Homework:

1.  Finish this daybook exercise.

2.  Work on your Problem/Solution essay. You all need to revise; today's handout should give you ideas. Draft 1 must be typed and uploaded in Moodle on Monday, and Draft 2 is due on Tuesday.

3.  no TWFTD.

Draft #1 Problem/Solution

We discuss commas again, and you do Ex. 38.7 page 99.  All the legitimate commas in this exercise exist because of Rules 1, 2 and 4 from Tuesday. You must find and remove any commas that are unnecessary.

Then you prepare your drafts, exchange, read, and comment on two drafts.

NOTE:  Your job is to help the writers decide whether their problem/solution IS WORKABLE!  Help each other;  if you think someone should choose a different topic, SAY SO.

Homework:

1.  If your draft is not typed,  get it typed by Monday, so that you can upload it in Moodle on Monday; Draft 2 is due on Tuesday.

2.  TWFTD: insomnia in OED.

Drafting Your Paper

Grammar:  do the "Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning" handout. 

We look at the website this came from. What is the problem?  Support?  Solution?  What action is required of us?

Time to work on your draft due tomorrow.

Homework:

1. Draft #1 for Problem/Solution Due tomorrow.

2. TWFTD:  proposal in OED

Planning Your Papers

Commas rule review.  Then,  do Ex. 38.1 page 93.

Then we look at the textbook Ch 10, how to organize this paper.

Now you gather in groups of three.  Explain to the group what problem you are considering.  All of you discuss the possible causes of the problem.  Then what solutions you propose.  All discuss possible other solutions.  At the end of this, each of you must have an outline written in your daybook for your paper. Put it on the board.

Homework:

1. Begin writing Draft #1 of your problem/solution paper. Draft #1 is due Thursday.

2.  TWFTD:  pathogen

Describing Problem/Solutions

Today you present the page you read at The Art of Manliness. Be sure and cover the points that you wrote in your daybook.

When we are done, you turn in your daybooks for the third check.

Homework:

Be thinking about the problem that you will write this paper about. Can you show that it IS a problem? Do you have one or more workable solutions? Be ready to outline them tomorrow.