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Week 12: Wednesday
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Week 12: Wednesday
Project 5
What's Next?
Read: Textbook, Chapter 27: “Working with Multimedia Assets and Sources” (pp. 467-487)
Academic Argument
What is an academic argument?
- An academic argument covers a wide range of writing, but its hallmarks are an appeal to reason and a faith in research.
- Such arguments cannot be composed quickly, casually, or off the top of one’s head. They require careful reading, accurate reporting, and a conscientious commitment to truth.
- Academic pieces do not tune out all appeals to ethos or emotion, but crumble if its facts are skewed or its content proves to be unreliable.
Get into Groups of Four
- What is the purpose of the video?
- Who is the audience of the video
- What are specific choices made by the rhetor in this video?
- What was done well in the video?
- What could be improved upon?
Academic Argument
Good academic argument is a give-and-take process. The goal of academic argument is (usually) not to prove another scholar wrong, but instead to show how his or her argument could be expanded, supplemented, redirected, modified, or amended.
Even when academic writing is less technical and demanding, this style will retain a degree of formality. In academic arguments, the focus is on the subject or topic rather than the authors, the tone is straightforward, and the language is clear.
Objectives
Example Video Project
- Questions
- Review Chapter 22
- Review a Video Project
- Continue developing a statement of purpose and design plan
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