WRT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Disjointed, Pathos, Ohio State University
24 Oct 2016
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Office hours: humanities 2037 monday from 1 to 4. What comes with academic writing: cohesion, standard english=performance. Rhetoric: language used to appeal: appeal- attracting the reader, origin in french means to call out. Pointing out her weakness makes her only that more credible. Starts off with ethos but then relies heavily on pathos, appealing to the emotion of the readers. Orwell"s private world vs. tan"s intimate language. Posterity: future generations of people, in his essay, wanting to be remembered after death. He doesn"t pick a side in politics, instead he actually analyzes the different sides. The opinion of the manager the manager"s opinion. Speech communities- a group of people sharing a language or dialect. Details: three ways to describe a person or a place: giving a detail, making a comparison, stating quality. Practice sentence: the cold chilled room contained the body of a dead man in a wooden box surrounded by flowers: telling facts imply; readers infer = formula.
