Final Version Problem/ Solution Due

You turn in your Problem/ Solution papers.

You have time to write the Cliché paper.

Homework:

Have a safe weekend.  Daybooks will be collected Tuesday.

Clichés

Read in Ev. Wr. page 268 and answer (thinkwrite) this question: what's wrong with using clichés?

Favorite clichés? List all the clichés you can think of.

Now, divide them into categories. (Description, advice, ???) We list them.

The opposite is also true?  Remember this? What about pink and blue?

Here's a bit of cliched advice: don't talk to strangers.

See handout for the reading and prompt for Short Essay #4.

Tomorrow you will have 45 minutes to type a response to this prompt in your daybook.  You may take that essay with you and revise, to hand in Wednesday May 29. Doing it tomorrow while being timed is practice for the Assessment Essay in two weeks.

I'll be picking up daybooks Tuesday.

Homework:

1. Your Final Version Problem/Solution is due.

2. Be thinking of a cliché you will write about for Short Project #4.

3. TWFTD: cliché in OED.

Editing with Turnitin

Why  Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning. This is a kind of Problem/ Solution writing.

We look at the web site, and you fix a copy in the forum and repost the fixed version.

Now, work on your draft using Turnitin.

Homework:

1.  Final Version due Friday. Tomorrow I'll give you the prompt for Short Project #4.  It will be practice for the Department Evaluation Essay.

2. TWFTD: physiologically

Problem/ Solution Draft 2

Everyday Writer Section 39: commas "Introductory Stuff."  Ex. 39.1 page 401.

You read and comment on drafts.

Submit your draft to Turnitin, as well.

Homework:

1.  TWFTD:  manipulation -- def. #4 in OED.

Persuasion

Thinkwrite: People change. Or not. Can you think of a situation where you were persuaded to change, or you persuaded someone else to change, either thoughts or actions?

I. Persuasion is difficult to do. Aristotle and the ancients came up with Logos, Ethos and Pathos.

We watch this.

Logos: facts, statistics

Ethos: experts, your testimony (be trustworthy)

Pathos: emotional presentation (strong story?)

As you assemble this paper consider how you are persuading the reader that this a serious problem, and that we should be part of the solution (if possible).

II. Read some more examples of this kind of writing. Please go to the site, The Art of Manliness, and look for an article that interests you. You must choose one that addresses a problem and provides solutions (many of the articles there do this). Do NOT choose a video. Read the article, and answer the following questions in your daybook:

1. What is the problem?

2. What are the causes of the problem?

3. What solutions are mentioned?

4. Do you detect any appeals to your emotions or reason in this article? Explain.

5. Do you think these solutions will work? Why do you think this?

Homework:

1. Get Draft 2 ready for tomorrow. You will be uploading it in Moodle, as well as reading each other's drafts. Final Version due Friday.

2. TWFTD: your choice related to your problem