Lesson Materials: 1. PowerPoint Presentation;
Additional Materials: 1. Outlining and Reverse Outlining
Lesson Objectives: 1. Begin to plan and prepare your final argument paper; 2. Draw connections between a reading and the final major writing assignment; 3. Understand how the rhetorical situation shapes an argument paper.
Connection to Paper/Project Goals: This lesson is dedicated to the organizational and content aspects of your writing for the final argument paper.
Connection to Course Goals: This lesson helps you continue to understand the various ways a rhetorical situation can influence the objectives of an argument, and reinforces your understanding of writing as a drafting process.
Activities:
- Rhetorical Appeals Handout: In this activity and following the PPT, we will examine how rhetorical purpose could be used for business purposes. 1. We will review the definitions of ethos, pathos and logos. 2. You will look at a series of commercials and product pitches from the show Shark Tank that make use of these basic rhetorical principles (ethos, pathos, and logos). 3. As you view the segments use the take notes on your observations. 4. Use the handout to organize your notes. 5. Share your thoughts with a partner and then discuss each example with the professor and the rest of the class.
- Integrating Sources: Follow the PPT to review material that will help you understand how to integrate different sources, essential citation practices and paragraph transitions in your writing.
- Responding to Content: Read this article and identify instances of productive agreement and disagreement that enhance the understanding of those involved in the exchange. Identify where the author author and interviewee express disagreement and how they explain their reasoning instead of simply expressing disagreement.
- Draft Review Handout: conduct a peer review on the first draft of the argument paper.
- Implementing changes: Use the time remaining to implement changes to the first draft of your argument paper.