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Project Two Rough Draft Workshop

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ROUGH DRAFT WORKSHOP: Working the Text

 

Housekeeping:

  • Project One Grades
    • Beginning tough with a low-point assignment.
    • A strong thesis will help you focus on THE ASSIGNMENT.
      • ANALYSIS
    • USING SOURCES: 
      • Avoiding generalizations with research.
      • Analyzing source material.  
    • ANY SOURCE YOU USE MUST BE CITED (or it's plagiarism).
      • We'll be using MLA or APA citations for this project.  

 

Agenda:

  • Answer these questions for your text and COME UP WITH AN OUTLINE for your paper (see the lecture notes from last Wednesday for examples - Rhetorical Analysis Continued).
  • Look at the RUBRIC for Project Two.

 

READING for the Draft:

 

Reading for rhetorical analysis is different than reading for data or reading for pleasure. Re-read your text right now and answer these questions. 

 

By answering the following questions, you should generate a great deal of material that you can use in composing your rhetorical analysis. You will probably find that many parts of the text will reveal more than one aspect of its rhetoric (cut-and-paste these questions onto your Project Two page on your roster and ANSWER THEM in class). 

 

1. What is the rhetorical situation?

 

2. What is the writer's ethos and how is it created?

 

3. What claim or proposition does the writer advance?

 

4. Considering the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs the writer assumes to be common ground with her or his audience, how strong or weak are these arguments?

 

5. How is the text arranged? What are its parts? What is their relation to one another?

 

6. What is the role of style and tone?


Building the Outline

 

You've already filled out the thesis-formula for your paper. Now build an OUTLINE from that thesis statement. 

 

This is an example of the working thesis formula, a thesis, and an outline for Project Two. Notice how the THESIS and BODY PARAGRAPHS both analyze and support the WAY THE RHETORICAL STRATEGIES WORK IN THE ESSAY "COMMUNIQUE FROM AN ABSENT FUTURE."

 

Author = Anonymous

Work = “Communique from an Absent Future”

Thesis (of the work) = The article has a three-part thesis:

1. Like the society to which it has played the faithful servant, the university is bankrupt.

2. The modern university has no history of its own; its history is the history of capital.

3. We seek to push the university struggle to its limits. 

 

X, Y, Z (rhetorical strategies) = Primarily utilizes pathos and ethos to persuade readers.


 

(MY) THESIS: The anonymous article “Communique from an Absent Future” primarily utilizes pathos and ethos to persuade the reader of three things: that the university is socially bankrupt, that the university and its collapse are tied to the failed capitalist system, and finally that it is time to act and reform the university.

 

Body Paragraphs (support thesis):

1. Ethos and pathos are used to persuade reader that the university is socially bankrupt.

2. Ethos and pathos are used to persuade the reader that the university is intertwined with capitalism and that these two institutions have collapsed together.

3. Ethos and pathos are used to persuade the reader, the potential college student, that it is time to act and reform the university. 

 

Conclusion: Ultimately, “Communique from an Absent Future” aims to persuade the reader to join other students at the barricades. Since the anonymous author wants the readers to act immediately, it relies on the rhetorical strategies that may provoke the reader to act. The author prompts the reader to make an emotional decision and reinforces that decision by persuading the reader that everyone supports this 

 

Use THIS as a model for YOUR outline (due in class today).  


Assignments:

 

  • Rough draft are due for the Rough Draft Workshop on WEDNESDAY.   

 

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