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Justice

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What is Justice?

Relationship between law and justice

  • Supreme Court:

Legal battles concerning civil rights

Real life vigilantism and injustice

  • Batman:

The effects of childhood trauma and how it relates to criminal behavior in adulthood

  • Joker

Mental health and imprisonment

Legal insanity defense

???

  • Circus

Animal rights

  • Trapeze

Justice as a natural law

Biological basis for feelings of justice and injustice

But, you ask, what happens when I run out of ideas?

Final Draft

Draft (1st draft)

But you're wrong...

Brainstorming

The words you're looking for are...

Liberating

And

Exhilarating

AKA

The answer is... keep writing...

  • Crafting sentences and paragraphs out of your initial outline

Perfection

Freewrite: 5 minutes of writing without interruption

Language is the

  • Write quickly. Censor the inner critic.

Frame-work for Thinking

  • Useful for discovering a topic
  • Triple check Formatting

Kenneally also states that "language not only boosts cognition but can help or hinder thought..."

  • Useful for expanding on that topic
  • Quadruple check Spelling
  • Do not fear the spelling mistake that attacks by day or the grammatical error that stalks at night
  • What do you have to say?

"A study of more than 100 large American corporations, which together employ 8 million people, suggests that:

  • Writing is more important than it ever has been
  • Writing is a 'threshold skill' you need to get hired
  • Quintuple check Grammar
  • 75% say their employees need 'strong writing skills in their daily work...'"
  • What makes me furious, ecstatic, curious, or amazed?

This may feel...

Awkward

  • Turn it in ON THE DUE DATE!

Idiotic

Stupid

Language makes

Awful

Silly

Hard

Language is

us human

Identity

Terrible

According to linguist Christine Kenneally, "As far as we know, humanity has always had language..."

  • Every continent
  • Every culture
  • As long as there have been humans

Now you know:

Revise/Edit (2nd Draft)

Who are you?

Why think about this?

Outline

Carbonated Beverage

Pop

All communication is...

persuasive

Rhetorical Situation:

Power

Language is

(emails)

Soda

Soda Pop

(essays)

  • Longest and most involved step

(jokes)

Context in which writing takes place

(research studies)

(etc.)

Introductory Paragraph

a. Hook

b. Background Information

c. Thesis

  • What are you missing?

Purpose

  • What doesn't work?
  • Why you're human...
  • Why am I writing?
  • What am I trying to achieve?
  • What am I passionate about?

Body Paragraphs

a. Topic sentence

b. 1st piece of evidence supporting your topic sentence

c. Explanation

d. 2nd piece of evidence supporting your topic sentence

e. Explanation

f. Transition

  • Does anything need to be rearranged?

Language is

Cultural and Political Control

Audience

Conclusion

a. Restate thesis in a new, unique way

b. Clincher

  • Proofread!!
  • Who am I writing to?
  • What do they expect?
  • What is the best way to communicate my message?
  • What is your tone and attitude on the topic?

Author's

Stance

R.I.P. :(

Who: David Mason

What: Murdered

Where: Parking garage,

Downtown Charlotte

When: June 6, 2017; 10:37 p.m.

How: Multiple stab wounds

  • Artistic category

Genre

Expectation

News Report

Eulogy

Genre

Audience

  • Creates rules for what is "proper"

Purpose

  • The importance of writing in advancing your career

Ideas

  • Explore the importance of Writing/Language
  • Introduce Rhetorical Situation
  • Review steps to writing a successful essay
  • How to wrangle your ideas onto paper

Four Easy Steps to Writing Brilliance

Why is writing valuable?

3 minutes

1) Brainstorm/Outline

The Writing Process:

An Overview

  • How to whip them into shape when they are

2) Draft

3) Revise/Edit

4) Final Draft

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