ASSIGNMENTS

•Read PA ch. 19-27; be ready for quiz based on reading guide•A Track: Complete exercise 1.1 pgs. 25-27 & Submit to Moodle.

•Punctuation exercise due by this Friday—only 2 errors allowed.

INTRO TO ARGUMENT

QUIZ—ONLY ANSWER 1.

1. What's the difference between an academic argument and a quarrel?

2. What does the book mean by "in order to be suitable for argument, a statement must be debatable"?

3. What are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?

4. Name three traits that can help writers define their audiences.

5. Other than defining audiences by traits, what are the three basic kinds of audiences?

EVERYDAY ARGUMENTS

• In groups of 3-4, think of 3 real life situations where people have to argue in the Academic sense.

• Pre-School teacher writing a letter for my daughter to get

into kindergarten

• A coach trying to recruit a player

• A cover letter for a resume

• Buying a car

• Charity Campaign, or a grant requesting funds

• Law maker running for office trying to pass a law

FACTS VS. DEBATABLE CLAIMS

• A record 57 million Americans, or 18.1% of the population of the United States, lived in multi-generational family households in 2012, double the number who lived in such households in 1980. –RICHARD FRY AND JEFFREY S. PASSEL, Pew Research Center.

• What arguments could be made from this fact?

• Americans are becoming more concerned with caring for their elderly parents.

• People believe that Nursing homes are not good places for their aging parents.

• Americans can’t afford nursing homes for their elderly parents.

• There are not enough nursing homes with openings, so people’s aging parents have to live with them.

WHAT’S AN APPEAL?

•“To plead” one’s case As in “to appeal” to a higher authority:

• Supreme Court• Constitution• God• Nature

•“To please” • As in product appeal, sex appeal—something we find agreeable or desirable.

APPEALING TO VALUES

Value

Author Audience

Logos Ethos Pathos

Position Subject Author/Speaker Audience

AppealPersuades through reason, logic, evidence

Persuades through the character, authority, or qualifications of the author

Persuades by appealing to emotions

Examplesstatistics, quoting experts, definitions, historical analogies, formal logic

personal anecdotes, listing qualifications showing both sides of argument, appropriate vocabulary

vivid images, figurative language, recalling emotional events

Keyword to remember Logic Credibility Emotion

Slide design by Anne-Marie Womack, Texas A&M University.

CAR COMMERCIALS

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WORKS CITED

“Working at Home.” U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. Web. 6 Sept. 2014.