Eh 124 Spring 2011: Week Ten Class One
January 1, 2009
Let’s look back at our prompt:
Identify an issue in your reading that warrants further explanation or discussion, and, by integrating at least three sources from our text, and by using your knowledge of rhetoric, compose a 3-5 page thesis-based argument designed to support your position and inform or persuade your audience regarding that issue.
Re-working the Draft.
Let’s revisit the format we disucssed:
Thesis Paragraph: (1)
· Begin with you MAJOR CLAIM. The major claim is followed general evidence to support that claim. In this case, you will be talking about how an understanding of the issue would help a reader better understand the essay in question. (Virtually no one did this)
Body Paragraphs: (5)
1. Begin with a sub-claim in support of your major claim.
2. Provide evidence to support your sub-claim. This will come from one of your three sources.
3. Provide an explicit warrant connecting the evidence to your sub-claim. (Everything should be connecting back to the idea that the issue you are focusing on will help the reader understand the specific text you are writing in response to — this is the _foundation_ of the paper).
4. Transition into the next paragraph
Conclusion, Summary: (1)
1. Restate your MAJOR CLAIMS and your comments on how an understanding of the issue will help a reader better understand the essay in question.
Let’s begin the revision this way:
1) Identify the parts of the paper where you are actually doing what you are supposed to be doing.
2) I want you to also identify the kind of rhetoric you are using, the kind of claim, evidence, ect…and also any fallacies you may be writing against.
Revise for Wednesday.
