From Reading to Writing

Rhet 1010dlamey@aucegypt.edu

Things to do

• Keep assignments• Go over ideas of chapter 2• Do some analysis of given text

Annotating

• Critical reading: bringing knowledge, interests and experiences to text

• Annotating: first act of writing in response• Annotating means identifying:

a) Purposeb) Claimc) Main idea(s)d) Connections with ideas in other texts

Annotating .. cont’d

When annotating you answer these questions:a) What arguments are responded to?b) Is the issue significant?c) Are the author’s claims true?d) Is author’s evidence sufficient?e) Is there an exception to author’s argument?f) What would be a counterargument?

Practice

• Now read the text on p. 31• Disregard annotation in margins• Think of:

a) Identify situationb) Identify writer’s purposec) Identify author’s claims/thesisd) Identify author’s evidencee) Identify audience

Hirsch’s Cultural Literacy

• What is Hirsch’s thesis?• What is the situation/problem?• What is Hirsch’s purpose?• What are his claims?• What are the counterarguments?• How does he refute them?

Assignment

• Look at Barbara Ehrenreich’s article on p.47/48

a) Identify the situationb) Identify writer’s purposec) Identify author’s claims/thesisd) Identify author’s evidencee) Identify her audience

Reading Assignment

• Read “To Kill or not to Kill” by Scott Turrow

Questions