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"Make it better!"

Revision Strategies

Theses

"Another Way to Die" is the story's title. The title of your paper should be different.

Another Way to Die” by Haruki Murakami reflects the horrors lived during World War II, most specifically the atrocities done to the Chinese by the Japanese Army.

You should still be leading-in passages (your quotes from the story)!

The reason there are no names throughout the story is to be able to let you envision yourself in the story, be able to relate to it better, and not give freedom to any characters.

Your thesis needs to go one step further.

...but when you really look at it in detail the whole story is about humanity resisting to fate, which in this case means death. There’s death all around, first the death of the animal, then the death of the people, then the soldiers...

...the story is mostly focusing on his day and guides you to the conclusion that something of importance is about to happen to him. With so many obvious hints that came across him there was no way to say otherwise.

Useful sections

Thesis Is Chapter 2.3 -2.4

Audience

Chapter 3: Decisions shaped by genre, audience, and purpose

Strategies Chart 3.1 - Questions to Ask about audience: are they busy? How interested are they? Will they be skeptical? Will they feel threatened?

Think about the

various audiences.

What would "Another Way to Die"

mean for...

Japanese readers?

Chinese readers?

American readers?

Style

Chapter 4: How Messages Persuade through Style and Voice

Look for the features of language that work together to create different effects.

WAYS OF SHAPING SENTENCES - long or short

WORD CHOICE - abstract/concrete, formal/casual, specialized, unusual

VOICE or PERSONA - expert/layperson, outsider/insider, neutral observer/active participant

TONE - intimate/distant, angry/calm, informative/entertaining, humorous/serious

Think about the passages (quotes) you used for support.

What can you say about style? How does that fit with your thesis?

Logo,Pathos,Ethos

Chapter 4: Messages Persuade through appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos

Logos refers to the power of the writer's reasons and evidence; pathos to the way the writer connects to the reader's sympathies, emotions, values, and beliefs; and ethos to the way the writer portrays themselves as trustworthy and credible.

Chapter 5: Images have persuasive effects that can be analyzed rhetorically

Images make implicit arguments (logos), appeal to the viewers emotions and values (pathos), and suggest the creators character and trustworthiness (ethos).

Useful parts

Purpose and

"Angle of Vision"

Chapter 4: Messages Persuade through their Angle of Vision

Making an audience see something from one perspective only.

Stating their point directly

Selecting some details while omitting others

Choosing words or figures of speech with intended connotations

Creating emphasis or de-emphasis through sentence structure and organization

*Strategies in Chart 4.1*

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Multimodal

Chapter 5: Multimodal Videos

Visual/Verbal channel?

Camera Placement and Technique

Does your text combine the emotional impact of images with verbal headlines that reinforce the take-away point?

Is there a combination of moving images with language, music, and other sounds?

Make your essay multimodal!

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