1/20/2017
Objectives: Students will be able to revise their claims and thesis as well as apply rhetorical appeals in their researched argument essay.
Resources:
- Reasoning from Evidence to Claims”, discuss “Two Ways to Improve an Argument” page 196 in WA.
- Read “six steps for making a thesis evolve” ( pages 236-251 in WA)
- Binary Bites heuristics
Agenda
Do Now: Log in to your google doc and delineate your claims and counter claims by copying them and placing them in a vertical form. Place the overall argument on the top ( thesis statement)
Procedure:
- Examine the claims and counter claims in a delineating method: what’s the logical relationship among them? Do the claims( counterclaims) evolve logically? Explain in writing. If they don’t, revise your claim/counterclaim statements to make them evolve and align with your overall argument.
- Discuss how rhetorical appeals can be applied- use the handout and check off the ideas you plan to use to make your argument more convincing
- Work on the Rhetorical Precis (representing the ideas of our sources): follow the highly structured format to introduce the argument by your sources- Pick one source and practice writing one paragraph based on the source
- Revise Introduction and Conclusion by using the ” Making it Matter” heuristics
Homework:
- peer review using Evaluation Criteria
- review “Understanding Argument”- In W.A. -“What is potentially counterproductive about binary thinking?”
- Unit 3 reflection
- course reflection “Outro Superlatives”
- Unit 3 due: 1/23 with course reflection and Outro Superlatives.