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Let's Look at Examples!
Objective
- Now review one of your own paragraphs and think about how you want to revise it.
- Get into your groups and discuss what you are working toward in your draft
- Freewrite
- Review Arguments
- Review Paragraphing
- Group Work
Paragraphs...
Organizational Ideas
- Should begin and end with important info
- Should have topic sentences
- Should make sense as a whole
- Should relate to the paragraphs around it
Freewrite
- Narration
- Description
- Illustration
- Definition
- Division and Classification
- Compare and Contrast
- Cause and Effect
- Problem to Solution
- What is the current state of your rhetorical analysis paper? Be specific and HONEST about what you have completed in draft form.
- What SPECIFIC rhetorical terms are you planning to use to analyze your selected article?
- What questions and/or concerns do you have about your rhetorical analysis paper?
Placement of a Topic Sentence
New Paragraph??
- "Sometimes you will want to state a topic sentence at the beginning of a paragraph and then refer to it in a slightly different form at the end. Such an echo of the topic sentence adds emphasis to the main idea"
- Topic sentences at the beginning of a paragraph immediately show your audience "the point" immediately.
Questions to Ask Yourself
- to start a new idea
- to emphasize something
- to lead readers to a pause
- to take up a subtopic
- to start the conclusion
Opening Paragraphs
- Engage a reader's interest
- Can begin with a quotation, an anecdote, or a question.
- For a rhetorical analysis should discuss the rhetorical situation & thesis
- Broad to specific
- Is my topic sentences explicit or implied
- "how does each sentence relate to the main idea"
- Are paragraphs varied in length
- Is each paragraph organized in a way that a reader can follow?
- Are the paragraphs clearly linked?
Concluding Paragraphs
What's Next?
- Wraps up the paper in a memorable way
- Leaves audience feeling that their needs have been met
- Specific to general
- We can conclude with a quotation, vivid image, call for action, or a warning
- Due in Class: Draft work on 1-2 terms
- Read: Handbook, Chapter 3c: “Drafting a Working Thesis” (pp. 48-49)
- Read: Chapter 9c-d on thesis statements and arguments (pp. 163-165)
- Read: Textbook, Chapter 20: “From Formulating to Developing a Thesis” (just pp. 307-309)
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