Assignments:

• FW1 WAILA Due now
• Cards Against Humanity Prompt (between now and end of Wk 4)
• EX Scott RA B/S+

 

Everything’s an Argument

Questions for “Composing a Rhetorical Analysis”

 

• What is the purpose of the argument? What does it hope to achieve?
• Who is the audience for this argument?
• What appeals or techniques does the argument use — emotional, logical, ethical?
• What genre of argument is it, and how does the genre affect the argument?
• Who is making the argument? What ethos does it create, and how does it do so? What values does the ethos evoke? How does it make the writer or creator seem trustworthy?
• What authorities does the argument rely on or appeal to?
• What facts, reasoning, and evidence are used in the argument? How are they presented?
• What claims does the argument make? What issues are raised — or ignored or evaded?
• What are the contexts — social, political, historical, cultural — for this argument? Whose interests does it serve? Who gains or loses by it?
• How is the argument organized or arranged? What media does the argument use?
• How does the language or style of the argument work to persuade an audience?

 

Neil Degrasse Tyson on Flat-earth Theorist B.o.B

 

Steve Mazan, TED Talk, “The Power of Laughter”

 

Other Stuff:

• Bratskeir, Kate. “World Leaders Rock Elegant Man Buns.” Huffington Post. HuffPost, 28 October 2015. Web.
• White, Daniel. “Texas Man Falls into Hole Trying to Buy a Powerball Ticket.” Time. Time Inc., 13 January 2016. Web.
• Izadi, Elahe and Sarah Larimer. “How a Domino’s Pizza Order Helped Lead to the Capture of ‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch.” The Washington Post. Washington Post, 30 December 2015. Web.