Wednesday, July 29 2009

Part One Goals

• Reflecting on Toulmin Argument

• Workshopping Toulmin Argument

Part One

Journal entry:

How did you re-write your argument to make it a Toulmin argument.  Now that you have made the changes, I want you to write about what, exactly, and how, exactly, you went about doing this.

Group Discussion

Class Discussion

We will be breaking into groups of 3:

One of you will be looking for claims, one of you will be looking for evidence, one of you will be looking for warrants , and when you have this information, I want you to come back together and talk about it.

Part Two Goals

• Defend Your Seat!

Part Two

DEFEND YOUR SEAT!

We are all now at a stage in this course and our education where we need to be able to justify our place not only in this institution but also in this class. You have been with me for a few classes we. While you have been here receiving an education, many of your peers have been working at low-paying jobs,  perhaps raising families, and in general they are on track to be very much dependent on the good professional decisions that you and you fellow classmates will be making once you graduate. That’s a reality you may not like to think about, but it is very much true. While our course is only one important part of your overall undergraduate education, you are all at a point now where you need to be able to “justify” your continued presence in this course, because you are here — and they are not.

Here is how we are going to begin that process.

Over the next 10-15 minutes, I want you to explain to me how you have improved as a writer over the past seven weeks of this course. Focus on SPECIFIC aspects of your writing that have improved or developed, and tell me, with GOOD examples, how you know these areas of your writing have improved or developed. After you have done this, you need to explain to me ONE ISSUE that you know you need to work on more, and that you will need to focus on during these last 7 weeks of the course.

Group Discussion

Class Discussion

Collection of papers (to be turned back Wednesday or Friday of this week)

Let’s continue now by opening out books to chapter 17, fallacies in argument

This is an extremely important chapter, and one that we must understand to be able to progress as writers. We all use bad logic or poor argumentation strategies from time to time. That’s normal and natural, because people will generally say and do what they need to in order to get what they want. However, if you don’t want to be a victim to this kind of behavior, you need to be able to recognize it,.Your book has done a good job of breaking down some mistakes that are often made in argumentation.

Group Work

Class Discussion.

Homework

Revise Toulmin Argument  For Submission.

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