English 1301 Week 2: Ms. Lowery

Preview of Class 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

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 BA assignment due in RaiderWriter this weekend. We only have two weeks this semester when no assignment is due online.

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Reading Rhetorically: http://www. youtube. com/watch Reading Rhetorically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmqEcYcLxEc Annotation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzrWOj0gWHU

1. What questions does the text address, explicitly or implicitly 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 metaphor? What's his goal for talking about his experiences with different cultures and then connecting it with people's everyday experiences with specialists?

How to identify an author’s audience: Watch for cues in an author’s language Look at the editor’s notes at the beginning of each work Watch for use of detail Look at the journal These reveal assumptions about the intended audience.

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

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

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

Jared Diamond Article Response Jared Diamond, author of “The Ethnobiologist’s Dilemma” directs his attention not only to Ethnobiologists, but to people interested in Ethnobiology, academics, and those who enjoy museums. 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 that more knowledge will be given to those who know more about their issues.

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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

Review No BA due this weekend in RW (Saturday night off! Hurray!) In-Class Assignment for Week 3 Reread Jared Diamond’s “The Ethnobiologist’s Dilemma” page 556-562 Write a summary of his text.  Then paraphrase paragraph 26 on page 561. For samples on summary and paraphrase, look to the student examples on page 563-4 Required Reading for next week in addition to RW: The example rhetorical analysis on my blog (under “Pages”)