ACMB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Portal 2, Pathos, Deductive Reasoning
27 Apr 2018
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ACMB01
UTSC
Lecture 10
March 22nd, 2018
Overview - Ethos, Pagos, Logos
Writing skill: Parallelisms - Developing a Working Thesis
●Housekeeping
●Literature Review Q & A
●Writing Skill: Parallelisms
●Developing a Working Thesis
●Rhetorical Strategies: Ethos, Logos, Pathos
●Rhetorical Analysis
●Exit Ticket
Housekeeping
1. Journal #7 due March 29 by 5pm on Portal
2. Journal #8 due April 5 by 5pm on Portal
3. Research Essay – due April 6th at 11:59pm
4. Go to a performance of 10 out of 12
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Parallelisms
Enhancing Factor - Parallelism
●Brings complexity and variance to your writing without using complicated structures that
lessen readability
●Deceptively simple idea – Repeat sets of verbs, nouns, or adjectives
●Readers like parallelism because
- It’s easy to follow
- It provides readers with stable sentence structure
- It connects two or more related ideas
Single-Element Parallelism: Verb Series
High ratio of verbs to total words is preferred by readers
Moves writing forward
●In the summer we swam, hiked, laughed, and kissed. In the winter, we studied, worked,
complained, and fought - Condenses six months of a relationship
●Even the official biographer noted that Williamson studied, read, wrote, and drank.
●Final element in the series creates a surprise
Single-Element Parallelism: Noun Series
●Noun series work well to compress description and to relay detail quickly and efficiently
Examples:
●She had on her desk a dictionary, a pen, a computer, a stapler, a cup, and an aspirin.
●Peterson’s quantitative analysis showed increases, decreases, and mistakes.
- The point where you shift the pattern becomes the point of emphasis
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Excerpt from Tar Baby – Toni Morrison
●He looked in the cupboards: glasses, cups, dishes, a blender, candles, plastic straws,
multi-coloured toothpicks and at last a box of Norwegian flat bread. (7) - Surprise noun
series (required for journal entry)
Single-Element Parallelism: Adverbs, Adjectives, Prepositions
Adjective Series – Detailed, coherent, well-argued writing makes Dr. Kilgour’s book a pleasure to
read.
Adverb Series – The argument was analyzed completely and accurately.
Preposition Series – I look in, around, and under the shed for the cat.
Developing a Working Thesis
Three Steps to a Working Thesis
Freewriting – from general idea to specific topic
Group Idea Bouncing – how does your idea sound and what response does it get from peers?
(In-class Activity in groups)
Create a Working Thesis
Targeted Freewriting (5 minutes)
Turn off your critic – don’t stop writing (Don’t worry about grammar / weirdness)
You might freewrite with something general and abstract in mind, perhaps the question “what
would make a good idea for a research project?” For a more targeted freewriting exercise, you
Document Summary
Writing skill: parallelisms - developing a working thesis. Housekeeping: journal #7 due march 29 by 5pm on portal, journal #8 due april 5 by 5pm on portal, research essay (cid:385) due april 6th at 11:59pm, go to a performance of 10 out of 12. Brings complexity and variance to your writing without using complicated structures that lessen readability. Deceptively simple idea (cid:385) repeat sets of verbs, nouns, or adjectives. High ratio of verbs to total words is preferred by readers. In the summer we swam, hiked, laughed, and kissed. In the winter, we studied, worked, complained, and fought - condenses six months of a relationship. Even the official biographer noted that williamson studied, read, wrote, and drank. Final element in the series creates a surprise. Noun series work well to compress description and to relay detail quickly and efficiently. She had on her desk a dictionary, a pen, a computer, a stapler, a cup, and an aspirin.
