ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Comma Splice, Sentence Clause Structure, Topic Sentence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Trevor Tucker

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Allowed to use personal pronouns but remain formal, don"t make too great of an appeal to emotion. Persuading an audience of a particular argument that may involve them to adopt a particular proposal. Ethos: appeal to authority, identify ourselves as who we are (ex. cancer survivor, president), provide insight to a particular topic because you have experience, more recent sources have a greater authority. Thesis is the most important part of our statement. Thesis is the point of view you are adopting. Convince someone your position is the right position. Facts are evidence you can use, not a claim that can be used as a thesis. Trying to reflect the debate we are engaged in. Sentence fragment: a phrase because it lacks a subject or predicate. She tried to swim to shore, however, she drowned . However" is a subordinate clause; brings the two phrases together. Check for a subordinating clause to find out if the statement is a sentence.