Sep 29

Class canceled

Sep 24

Today in class:

1. We decused the mistake within our syllabus about the due dates of the editorial analysis final for now and mid-term portfolio.
* and email will be sent out regarding this information.

2. Discussion on the memo which will need to be included in our mid term portfolio.
* page 145-146 of JAC has a template for the memo.
*miscrosoft word also has a memo template.
*page 169 of JAC also has ideas for writing your memo.
* most important thing is that your memo should be reflective on your writing.

3. Midterm portfolio should include all copies of news analysis, editorial analysis, memo, and short writes.
* You may also choose to include informal writings if they are discussed within your memo

4. Met with our groups for peer revisions and exchanged papers.

5. Turned in a copy of our rough draft editorial analysis.

**Reminder- class will not be held on Monday September 27
conferences will be held Monday and Tuesday

Homework:
Complete peer review "analyzing an argument" worksheet for conferences on Monday and Tuesday
* worksheet was recieved in class today.

Homework

1. Continue to work on editorial analysis.
2. Print as many copies of a draft as there are people in your peer group and bring copies Friday. Draft should be at least 3 of the 4+ page requirement.

Sep 20

In class today we went over a checklist of analyzing an argument critically. The checklist included the following steps:

1. who is the author?
2. is the piece aimed at a particular audience? A neutral audience? A sympathetic audience? a hostile audience?
3. what is the author's thesis?
4. what assumptions does the author make? Do I share them? if not, why not?
5. does the author ever confuse facts with beliefs or opinions?
6. what appeals does the author make? (ethos, pathos, logos)
7. how convincing is the evidence?
8. are significant objections and counter-evidence adequately discussed?
9. how is the text organized and is the organization effective?
10.if visual materials such as graphs, pie charts, or pictures are used, how persuasive are they?
11. what is the author's tone? is it appropriate?
12. to what extent has the author convinced me? Why?

We also paired up and did a writers workshop with the first three paragraphs of our Editorial Analysis using page 55 in the JAC

Homework:
1. continue working on our editorial analysis which is due for peer exchange on Friday

1. if you weren't in class, e-mail Lindsey your availability for conference sessions (next Monday and Tuesday from 9:30-4:30).

Sept 17

Homework for Monday:

1. Read Chapter 10 in EA
2. Write the first three paragraphs of the editorial analysis (an outline for these paragraphs is on pg 156 of the JAC). Print a copy and bring to class Monday for a writing workshop. Anyone who does NOT bring a copy to the workshop will be asked to leave and will receive an absence.
3. Complete SW D (this shortwrite is different than the one listed in the syllabus) - a handout on logical fallacies distributed in class (and via e-mail)

September 15, 2010

Our homework due Friday is to read JAC 102-106 (on Finding Secondary Sources), read Ch. 20 in EA, and find 2 secondary sources and create a works cited page with those sources to turn it.

Today we went over logical fallacies more in depth and tried to find them within our own articles, we also went through a previously written article and looked for the claims, evidence, and analysis of evidence. We went through one last article and looked for where sources needed to be cited, and lastly, went over secondary sources.

September 13

The Homework Due Wednesday day is:

1) Find (or use editorial from SWC) an editorial and examine it for logical Fallacies. Print two copies of the editorial (one for you to keep and one to turn in). On the editorial, underline all logical fallacies and label them by type in the margin.

Also in class we talked about warrants and the different types of fallacies.

2) Warrant can be found on page 35 & 36 of the JAC.

a) A warrant is the unspoken logic between a support and a claim.

b) A good warrant will not assume more than the evidence supports.

3) The different types of fallacies can be found on page 43-44.

Sept 10

Today in class:

• We turned in our News Analysis papers which had to be about 4 full pages.

• We spoke about our new assignment and also received short write .

Our homework was a little different than the Syllabus;


We must Read Chapter 6 in Everything's an Argument


Also short write C requires us to find an editorial and fill out the sheet provided.

Our new writing assignment is called the editorial analysis and the info on it can be found on page 156 in your JAC.

(cross-posted from another class section)

Class Notes 9/8/10

Tonight's Homework:

1) Final News Analysis (4 full pages)
2) Compile "Final for Now" folder together in this order:
    - "Final" Draft
    - Peer Comment Draft(s)
    - Professor Comment Draft(s)
    - Other Drafts (if applicable)
You can use a binder or folder, just as long as the papers are controlled and prevented from getting mixed with your classmates' papers.


Today in Class:

1) We slightly reviewed the 'Rhetorical Analysis' (reading for today).
2) We began to discuss the Editorial Analysis, our next paper.
    - This is to be an opinion article in which we analyze a biased newspaper editorial rhetorically. To do so, we must dissect and scrutinize their argument without disagreeing with said argument.
    - Remember to identify the claim.
             + use ethos (ethical credibility), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic) to see how the argument works (or does not work)
3) We then got into groups and worked on a rhetorical analysis of different magazine advertisements.
    - Rhetorical Analysis Activity:
             + Step 1: Gather together in a group and look carefully at your advertisement.
             + Step 2: What is the ads purpose? What does it want you to do?
             + Step 3: Who has made the Ad? Nike? Dove? The Milk Processor Board?
             + Step 4: Who is the audience? Children? Women? Men? Both?
             + Step 5: How does the add appeal to this audience? Ethos, Pathos, Logos?
             + Step 6: Compile this information together to present to the class, and be prepared to explain/defend your analyses as a group.

4) Each group underwent the steps and openly discussed their rhetorical analysis of whichever advertisement the group had chosen.

Hope I helped!
-Martin Vanis

The Homework for tonight is:

1. Read ch. 5 EA

2. JAC 163 questions 1-6. Due at peer review

3. Read 131-137 JAC

Today in class we talked about proper MLA format for different types of citations. We went over direct citations, summaries, and paraphrasing. We also went over how to correctly give credit to a source for a citation.

Last Name, First Name, middle initial. "Article title" Publication title(italiciized) Name of Web site Date of pub. web. Date accessed.

We were also given our peer review groups and will be meeting them sometime Thursday or Friday.

No Class Friday