ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vanessa Grigoriadis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

An academic argument presents an informed (evidence), coherent (structure) and persuasive (style) position on a particular issue. Rhetoric: the faculty of observing [using] in any given case, the available means of persuasion. When deciding how you"ll construct a particular piece of writing, keep in mind: your intended audience, the genre of your composition, and your purpose in writing. Purpose in academic/papers: to persuade a skeptical (by nature and training) audience to your point of view as you: Debate an issue: the wisdom of safe injection-sites. Defend a practice: drones used in warfare. Successful arguments will always depend significantly on the content of your evidence but in argument, no proof is self-evident or self-supporting. Reading: how we learning to quit worrying and love kim kardashian by vanessa grigoriadis. [1] first reading: skim for tone, and basic thesis: *ideally the thesis should be identifiable in a clear and detailed statement near the end of the intro, not being sure is a problem.