Understanding the elements of an argument is the first step toward creating your own. In this assignment, you will review three essays, each demonstrating a unique style of presenting an argument, and choose one essay to evaluate using strategies outlined in your text.
Evaluating these arguments will prepare you to write effective persuasive arguments.
Review the following essays in Ch. 1 of Elements of Argument. After accessing the ebook, enter the page number given for each article to access them.
The place to enter the page number is at the bottom left of the screen once the book has been accessed.
Page 15: Aristotelian: "I am Adam Lanza's Mother" by Liz Long
Page 22: Rogerian: "The 'Unnatural' Ashley Treatment Can Be Right for Profoundly Disabled Children" by Peter Singer
Page 31: Toulmin: "Latest 3-D Films Add Dimension, Not Appeal" by Jonathan Winchell
Select one of the three argument essays listed above to evaluate.
Use the strategies on pp. 53-54 in Ch. 2 of Elements of Argument for your evaluation.
Write an assessment of the essay. Your assessment must be at least 350 words total. Include the following in your assessment:
Identify the essay and the author.
Identify the author's thesis.
Explain whether the organization of the article was effective in making its argument.
Describe the methods the author used to argue a point, persuade, mislead, or sway the reader.
Describe how the author's awareness of and response to other arguments were demonstrated in the essay.
Describe the level of timeliness, relevance, credibility of the author and publication presented in the essay.
Implement one quote from the essay you selected to illustrate your evaluation.
Format your assessment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines. Title and reference pages are not necessary for this assignment.
Reading and Discussion Questions
1. Look at Figure LI. What is significant about where President °barna and Secretary of State Clinton are and what each is doing?
2. At the time, what was demanding a good deal of Obama's attention? (Signs in the background reading "Change we on believe in" are a clue.)
3. Why might merne authors Lambe and Smith have had barna use such informal language?
4. Lambe and Smith posted 32 Hillary mernes. When they froze their site, they had received 83,000 shares an Facebook 8,400 Twitter folloWers; and over 45,000 Ibmblr followers and a post from Clinton herself What does this response suggest about memes?
TWO piouts and a few words can be good fora laugh. However, they can go further to Make a serious statement. Even a simple visual can present an argument.
For example, consider Figure 1.2. The sign, marketed to store owners, uses the traditional symbol for no" to make the point that those wearing hoodles are not welcome,
Chapter 1 : Approaches to argument
Reading and Discussion Questions
1. Look at Figure 1.2. Why would store or restaurant owners put a sign like this In their window?
2. Why do you think some people have a problem with 'toadies?
3. What specific event took place in February. 2012 that made the hoodie sym-bolic?
(Try searching the terms "hoodie" and 'symbol of injustice?) How did something as simple as a hoodie factor into the events of that night?.
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