Prediction:: About convincing

CSU Professor, Pomona

Purpose: inform, explainAudience: StudentsEstablishing credibility, name droppingHeading=definition Connecting with reader’s

previous leaning

synonymsDefinition

Transitions: pay attention

Wants reader to come to same conclusionBuilding common ground

Manipulating thinking Topic Sentence: Important idea

Third person to distance reader

Italics, term and definition

Second person relating

Wrong idea, faulty conclusion

Colon signals definition

Building common groundLoaded words, connotation

Transition--clarifying

Manipulating reader’s thinking

Definition

Visualize, actually see faces or ads in mind

Transition--contrastDefinition of

logos

Deductive;--general to specificInductive—specific to general

Italics signals term

Example

A = B

B = C

A = C

Transitive properties

Signals changeSynonyms

DefinitionAuthor is guiding our

thinkingBuilding common groundEnds with

transitionTransition to historical example from common life

Restatement

Building common groundTake an

educated guessTransition

1.2.Summarizes other

paragraphs

Colon signals definitionBuilding common groundTransition to thesisCounter opposing arguments

][

Personal experience

Syllogism, premise, thesis

My Paraphrase

1.Engaged in subject

2.People acting

3. How to manipulate

Expanding thesisBackgroun

d information for example

Example refers back to definition

Loaded wordsAppeals to personal experience of student readersItalics for emphasisBuilding common groundAppeals to

everyone

Addressed directly to student readers

Clincher

Order of article, saves most important technique or point for last