WRIT 1000 Lecture Notes - Moodle
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Df wallace"s 2005 kenyon college commencement address youtube video on moodle. Critical writing: an introduction to analysis and persuasion in academic contexts. Style is meaningful is important in everything that has been discussed in this course so far. How you say things is key when you are saying what you want to say. See how grammar, analysis, persuasion contributes to style. Slide 4 is the condensation of everything you should get away from today"s class. Whatever your data is it needs to be interpreted and explained analysis. Analysis is a cognitive activity- something you do on your own; your own personal thinking. Cognitive activity that generates content about your topic. Persuasion is a social activity- figure out value of analysis and send it out to others so they can benefit from the thinking you have done. Way to use language that will enable you to identify/connect with an audience and to convince it of the validity of your analysis.
