Yellow sign with black lettering that reads " ATTENTION ALL WRITERS"
“‘A Journey of Fun Exploration’ Dragon Street Art by lionrab2it in Taipei” by midnightbreakfastcafe via Flickr CC BY 2.0

Week 9: Drafting Project 2

Class Info

  • Dates: Tuesday, 3/28-Monday, 4/3
  • Meeting Info: Tuesday and Thursday 10:00-11:15am in room N618

Objectives

  • To draft proposals for Project 2
  • To draft Project 2
  • To consider ethos, pathos, and logos as appeals to connect with an audience
  • To research topics to have support for the opinion essay
  • To complete any unfinished work, especially Project 1: Discourse Communities and the reflection post to earn a P midsemester grade.

For Tuesday, 3/28

Reading

  • Research for Project 2: read several resources that you can consider referring to in your opinion essay.
  • Reading/Writing resource: “Handout: Quoting Others (Purdue OWL). Reading/Writing resource: “The Quote Sandwich” (Washoe School District).

Writing

In Class Tuesday, 3/28

  • Reviewing the features of the op-ed
    • opinion
    • call to action
    • counterpoint
    • audience/venue
  • check-in about topics
    • human rights violations in El Salvador: possible upward trend, want to see this continue. could you offer a solution? could you argue that people in the US should care more about international issues/less local issues; connecting it back to local issues
    • pros and cons of banning GMOs: maybe think about why eat local/seasonal. or think about it beyond food–environmental impacts, species preservation
    • thinking about how math is taught–audience of students and teachers
    • ethics of placebos: healthcare ethics–even if you can’t decide one way or the other, you might think about how healthcare students should consider ethical issues, why they matter to their education.
    • climate crisis
    • trade school should be supported
    • other possible topics
  • from topic to thesis statement
  • Drafting proposals–please submit these before Thursday’s class.

For Thursday, 3/30

Reading

Writing

  • take notes and annotate while researching
  • revise Project 2 Proposal as needed and share as a post on our site, using the category Project 2 Work
  • draft Project 2

In Class Thursday, 3/30

  • What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
    • ethos has to do with persuading someone by gaining their trust using your position of status or authority, experience. that makes you convincing because you know more about it that others, so you are a credible source
    • pathos uses emotions such as sadness or pity as a call to action, like when you see commercials with sad animals that try to get you to care, feel guilty–other emotions, too
    • logos appeals to the audience’s reasoning, with logical arguments. Could be in your thesis statement and more so in support for the thesis statement with evidence, facts, data
  • where do we find these appeals in the op-eds we’ve read?
  • incorporating ethos, pathos, logos into our op-eds
    • what kinds of appeals do we want to make in our op-ed?
    • how/when/where etc