Monday, February 2 2009

Today’s Agenda:

You are here today with the next draft of your précis. We are going to spend much of today giving proofreading these documents to make sure that they are in the best possible shape for when you turn them in to me.

I want you to give your writing to people who have not had your writing before. Once this is done, we should all have three papers. If you did not come with your won draft, you should not be looking at anyone else’s drafts yet (you don’t pay, you don’t play).

Okay. Now that we have our drafts, here is how we are going to proofread.

1)      We spent a lot of time last week talking about the structure of these documents, and how the individual sections should work. So, to begin, we are going to go through these drafts looking for:

A)     Paragraph structure.  (go through all three documents and check)

a.       Are they sticking to one major idea per paragraph? If not, you need to let them know.

b.      Are these paragraphs fully developed? Approx. 6-8 sentences in length? If not, they are probably overdeveloping or under developing these topics and ideas. Let them know.

B)      Section Structure:

a.       We now know all of the elements that need to be addressed in each section. Are they addressing each of the key subjects in their Situation, Issue and Thesis sections? The best way to check for this is to read each of the situation sections in turn, then the issue sections, then the thesis sections.

C)      Grammar and Mechanics check.

You are to take these comments, correct your draft and e-mail me your final draft before class next time.

Pt II

Reading:

Statement/Proof

What is their style? Does it appeal to Ethos, Pathos, or Logos? How do you know when this is the case?  What is the language like?

Now let’s think about “Protecting Freedom of Expression at Harvard?

In your journals, I want you to write our the beginning of a rhetorical analysis: Think about Bok’s style and how, or why, it appeals to Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?

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