1. Monday
2.6.17

2. 10 Minute Warm-up
On a piece of paper, Write an to your best friend telling her/him how your semester is going.

3. Today’s Agenda Audience Appeals (Pathos, Logos, Ethos) Argument
(Audience) Exercise
IAR Strategies Applied to Readings
Paper 2 Examples

4. Audience Appeals
The Handout for the Audience Appeals can be found in Unit Two of our course website.

5. Purposes of an Argument
To Win – (Usually in debating societies) – The writer’s aim is to control the audience, and to present a position that defeats the position of others.
To Convince – The writer’s aim is to convince other persons that they should change their mind about an issue. Thus, the writer must provide reasons (evidence) that are compelling enough to change people’s minds.
To Reach an Audience or Explore an Issue – Arguments to decide or explore are not aimed at conquering or controlling others, or even to convince. Rather, it seeks a sharing of information and perspectives in order to make informed choices. (For example, Exploring which college is the best for your future).

6. Characteristics of an Argument
An Argument should have 3 characteristics:
Your argument should attempt to convince the audience of something, urge them to do something, or explore a topic to make a wise decision.
It should address a problem that does not have an acceptable solution, or ask a question for which there is no absolute answer.
It should present a position in which the audience may realistically have a perspective on.

7. Using Sources in an Argument
As background information on your topic
To demonstrate the writer’s knowledge of the topic
To support your thesis by citing authority and testimony
To include a counterargument, or opinions that differ from your own.

8. Exercise
On the same piece of paper, write an to your mom or dad about how your semester is going.

9. Exercise
Write an to me, your instructor, about how your semester is going.

10. Email Exercise (For points this week)
Compare and analyze the three s that you wrote. Write down similarities and differences between the three s. In other words, what do you notice between the three? Is the language different, the same? Is the content different, the same? Is the tone different, the same? Is the salutation different, the same?

11. Using IAR strategies for reading
Invention
Arrangement
Revision
One effective way to examine the relationships between the texts you read and the writing you produce is to use IAR analysis

12. Reading: Invention
What is invention? (What activities did the writer have to engage in to create the text?)
What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?)

13. Reading: Arrangement
What is arrangement? (What is being put in relation to what?)
What is being arranged? (How are the things being put in relation to one another
Tip: It may be a good idea to make a visual of the arrangement of the essay.

14. Reading: Revision
What is revision? (What is the writer trying to change? For example, what ideas, practices, etc.? What is the author’s argument?)
What is being revised? (What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions?)

15. Paper 2 Examples
Paper 2 Examples can be found in Unit Two on our course website.

16. Homework
Remember your conference time. Bring your proposal memo to conference with Barb.
Reading and IAR Reading Analysis Posting to Eli – Reading: Christine M. Mitchell, The Rhetoric of Celebrity Cookbooks (Reading and Writing Literacies, Pp 161 – 176). Due: Monday, Feb. 13 by 11 pm.