Class Nineteen
Last time we took up the concept of rhetoric. I told you that rhetoric essentially involves your understanding of the relationship between:
Speaker, Audience and Subject
We need to be aware that we will speak in different ways to different audiences when we are talking about the same basic subjects.
For today, you wrote a letter to a high school senior about your transition into college, and then you wrote a letter to a favorite teacher about this same transition.
Journal:
How did the language of your letters change? Be specific, and you should use examples. What else changed in your second letter? Why did it change?
Mini-lecture:
A big part of learning how to argue is to be aware that there are essentially three kinds of appeals. There are emotional, ethical, and logical appeals. Your book talks a little about this at the end of the reading, but what I would like you to do today to get things started is to get into your groups and come up with examples of each. What kinds of arguments appear to your emotions, ethics, or logic.
Group Presentations
Class Discussion.
Arguments that appeal to your emotions – PATHOS.
How do these arguments appeal to your emotions, specifically?
Class Discussion.
Now that we have thought a little bit about this issue, I want us to return to the basic paper that we will be working on in this class:
For your third paper in EH 123, you will be asked to draw on your knowledge of your own culture as well as that of another culture (as illustrated in both Morrie and Ancient Futures) and produce a 3-5 page comparative argument that explores the ways in which two cultural systems handle the same issue, problem, or situation.
The goal of this paper IS NOT to “prove that one culture is better than another,” but rather to use the comparison to illuminate different values, aspects, or practices of the two cultures. Judgments of value are to be withheld, and evaluations should be made on a rational basis and supported by available material. You will also be required to use formal citations (2-3) in either MLA or APA for this paper.
Journal:
What is one issue that both your culture and one of the cultures in either Tuesdays with Morrie or Ancient Futures considers or takes up? Identify this issue, and write generally about it and a little bit about how it may be handled differently by these two societies.
Group Discussion
Homework
Read and Annotate 45-59, and draft first three pages of this argument.
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