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Purpose

  • ask "why am I writing this?"
  • trying to create a purpose sentence or thesis
  • ways to develop your thesis

Audience

  • advantage: having a limited audience
  • questions to ask in evaluating audience

knowledge

crediability

agreement

Using PAFEO Planning

John Keenan

P

Format

purose

A

audience

F

format

- “… the work done before the first draft in the prewriting process and after the draft in the revising process is often the difference between successful communication and time-wasting confusion”

E

evidence

  • consider the appropriate format for the particular communication you are writing
  • achieve your purpose
  • keep the reader in mind
  • use format to save the reader time

O

organization

Presented by Claire Henry

Evidence

The Rules of Evidence

Deduction

Twisted Logic

  • the more evidence the better
  • gather evidence in three ways
  • begging the question
  • non sequitur
  • post hoc
  • oversimplification
  • false analogy

careful observation

intelligent fieldwork

research

  • look at the evidence and follow where it leads
  • look for the simplest explanation that accounts for all the evidence
  • look at all likely alternatives
  • beware of absolute statements
  • induction vs. deduction
  • two principles for sound induction

correlation does not prove causation

Organization

  • Keenan's suggestion for how to organize

the flash card game

Conclusion

Remember PAFEO

avoid unclear writing

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