Steps to Writing

Invention/Prewriting
Drafting
Gather Feedback
Revision
Editing
Proofreading

Notes:

-Fitting in at the start: elaborate how you felt the need to fit in
-Good elaboration on your phone part
-Building


Notes for self:

-She made a huge difference, but you dont have to actually say it out loud
-Imagery more credit The chef hat
-Extremely explicit
-She was serving us the food but dont actually tell she loved to serve us
afterwards
-You show a lot, so dont waste time on telling

Notes:

-made me wonder: a good friend, but starts the war
-builds a lot of tension before revealing what she said about the test
-becomes a story of proving the enemy wrong
-include a

Rhetoric
- Aristotle (the art of identifying and applying the available means of
persuasion)
o Forensic: court room, past guilt or innocence (the type of rhetoric
used in law)
o Epideictic: present values, boundaries that establish the values of a
community and who isnt in it (OUR nation is built on courage, WE the
people must fight the system, WE ARE ND)
o Deliberate: Future Action, public sphere (heres a policy that needs to
be changed, and heres why; this song is about * but it could also be
interpreted as *)

- Herrick: The systematic study and intentional practice of effective symbolic
expression
o Planned
o Adapted to an audience
o Shaped by human motives
o Responsive to a situation
o Persuasion thinking (Trying to get people to change their mind on a
subject or idea)

- Lunsford: Art, practice and study of human communication

Argument
- Series of premises (claims) that are designed to support a conclusion

- Not merely contradiction

- Reasoning made public with the goal of influencing

- Persuade with appeals
o Emotional (pathos)
o Logic (logos)
o Character (ethos)

Essay
- A form that many arguments take

- Thesis/central claim
- Introduction (claims/evidence)
- Body
o Claims
o Evidence
- Conclusion

- Speeches, ads, political cartoons, movies, documentaries, debates, music,
dance, architecture

Importance/Social Function
- Power (politicians, commentators, talk shows how it affects the
information we receive)
- Legal ramifications
- Tests ideas
- Builds communities
- Shapes knowledge
- Virtues
o Honesty
o Intellectual in range
o Wisdom
o Tolerance
o Knowledge
o Rationality