Readings Week 6

Everything's An Argument Chapter 16

In Chapter 16, it described how to conduct an academic argument, which can be not be composed quickly, casually or off the top of one's head. It is very important to convey power and authority when you are stating an argument and address you writing to the audience that you are giving the argument to. It must require attention but also deliver important and comprehensible information to any reader. It is very important as a writer to draw upon your sources and build arguments based on the research that you found. You need to find your topic, get to know it, find out what you already know and what you need to do. Then you need to come up with a claim and build your arguments based on your facts. Many people use claims for different reasons, such as reporting, criticizing or advocating for something. A vital piece of your argument should be your audience, the organization and the style and tone.


Understanding Rhetoric Issue 4

In this comic strip it explained how an argument can be a lot like a conversation, and how it is important to talk about more than one side in your argument. It should not be based off who is right or wrong but should argue something that represents a position where a person could disagree. There must be grounded evidence and you must connect a claim ad  that evidence, and make the connection between the two of them very clear. It is also important to have a variety of paragraphs that make it whole.


Shitty First Drafts

In this story I took away that it is very important to realize that very few writers know what they've done until they do it. Most make very terrible first efforts before they have a final product but it is very important to go back and look at your work more than once and also edit what doesn't need to be in there.

The Say, I Say Chapter 7
This section focused on the who cares and so what part of your essay. It is important in your essay to reflect central advice, offer a clear claim and also frame that claim as a response to what someone said, and have it all be backed by research. The structuring of sentences is also very important to allow your readers to understand the who cares part of your argument. So what should address why the readers may not care but that they SHOULD care.

Although many seems to concerned about____ it should in fact concern anyone who cares about ____