An Example

What about Logos, Ethos and Pathos? We look at this: http://fyc.usf.edu/Documents%20Social%20and%20Political%20Arguments/Logos%20Ethos%20Pathos%20Powerpoint.ppt

We read an example Problem/ Solution essay. Page 187 in The Bedford Guide "Why Prisons Don't Work" by Wilbert Rideau.

More help with the Three Appeals: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/12/21/classical-rhetoric-101-the-three-means-of-persuasion/.


Homework:

1. On Tuesday next week, a mind map of your Problem/ Solution paper is due. If you prefer NOT to do a mind map, you may submit a formal outline, typed. Use complete sentences in either the mind map OR the outline.

2. TWFTD: pathetic (adj.) in OED.

State the Problem

Write a sentence that states the problem you are going to explore in the next paper.

Write three questions on the topic you'll need to find answers for.

We discuss.



Homework:

1. Spend time analyzing and reading about your problem. Take a page of notes in your daybook on the topic. Be sure to track any online sources you use for information.

2. TWFTD:  rehabilitation in OED.

Problems?

If the courts are in charge...

Do you agree with the Australian Supreme Court ruling? Do you know of any other music-related intellectual property issues?

How about this one in England? Who owns that movie?

Solutions? What's Creative Commons? and this: http://questioncopyright.org/

I hand out the assignment sheet, and you brainstorm possible topics.

Homework:

1. Be ready tomorrow to explain what your paper will be about.

2. TWFTD: "intellectual property" as a term.

Starting Problem/ Solution

Hand in your papers.

Did you find out how the word "plagiarism" got chosen? How does it relate to intellectual property?

Here's a definition of plagiarism. Here is intellectual property.

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Why did the publisher cancel her contract and destroy her books? Do you think this was appropriate?

Helene

2. Why was this outcome SO DIFFERENT?

Herr Guttenberg

3. Was this the right outcome for a politician, for Germany?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

Book covers?

4. Was this a case of theft? Who decides?

If the courts are in charge...

5. Do you agree with the Australian Supreme Court ruling?

If there's time....better news, for some: music... TV iTunes

6. Whom do you think the law says that TV news footage "belongs" to? What do you think? Have you heard of "fair use"?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Hand in your daybooks.

Homework:

1. Be ready tomorrow with some ideas about a problem you want to write about.

2. TWFTD: patent in OED.