Thesis
What your paper is going to be based on.
Logos
using reasoning to make your paper understandable
Pathos
- appeal to emotion.
- It allows reader to connect to the audience (Ex. In real life you connect to human through emotion as well
- Not that much used in academic paper because suppose to use reasoning/logic, statistics, but still used in papers to persuade audience
- It exist to connect with people but you can’t lead with pathos in your paper.
Ethos
- Credibility.
- Proving your audience should trust you.
- Good way to express credibility is having flawless grammar, syntax, sentence structure, giving people credit on paper.
Summary
- MAIN POINTS get the main then you concisely put it in your paper with the same meaning that it has from where you got it from.
Paraphrase
Putting your own words in a sentence without going away from the meaning of the sentence.
Transitions
Guides reader throughout the essay so they don’t lose their/your thought.
What does a claim need to become an argument?
OPINION
- What is an analogy?
reference comparison of two things they fall in the same point.
Example - Sun and moon, Day and night.
- Synthesis of ideas
Combining ideas to form a theory(thesis) or system.
- Rhetorical Situation
Each individual rhetorical situation shares five basic elements with all other rhetorical situations:
A text (i.e., an actual instance or piece of communication, your genre)
An author (i.e., someone who uses communication)
An audience (i.e., a recipient of communication)
Purposes (i.e., the varied reasons both authors and audiences communicate)
A setting (i.e., the time, place, and environment surrounding a moment of communication)
- What is an Argument?
Convo with a goal-seeks to advance the conversation already in progress
- Takes stand on an arguable issue, not on facts
- Uses reasons and evidence
- Recognizes the topic’s complexity- ethical concerns/public policy issues
- moral, ethical, philosophical complication
- more than one right answer
- Counterargument
- Best arguments include counterargument
- discussing the possible arguments against you helps:
a. check your answers, your ideas
b. presents you as someone who weighs alternatives before arguing for one
- Objective
- FACTS. Other points are stated (fully comprehend both sides).
- Most used in academic papers.
- Subjective
- Opinion base.
- usually used in an every-day argument between people.
