ENGLISH 1301
Sec 69/72
ND
2
WEEK
The overview of today’s class
• The review of what we did last week
• Discussing 8 essential questions in First-Year
Writing
• Group work: create a group (4 or 5 persons per
group), then discuss how to apply the 8
questions to the articles we read for today.
• How to write a paragraph academically.
• What is summary?Paraphrase? (if we have
enough time)
• Assignment for the next week.
• The review of the day
Review from the last week
• Rhetoric is a manner of speech to influence
the reader
• Ethos: trustworthiness
• Pathos: emotion
• Logos: logic
• How to use St. Martin’s Handbook
• Any questions about Raider Writer?
FROM THE 8 QUESTIONS IN FIRST-YEAR WRITING
 What
question does the text address, explicitly or
implicitly?
 Who
is the intended audience?
 How
does the author support his or her thesis with
reasons and evidence?
 How
does the author hook the intended reader’s
interest and keep the reader reading?
 How
does the author make himself or herself seem
credible to the intended audience?
 How
do I respond to this text?
GROUP WORK
Apply
the questions to the articles we
have read for today.
Who
are their intended audiences?
How
do the authors support their claim?
What kind of evidence do they provide?
What
You
is the purposes of the articles?
have 10 min to talk about.
WHAT MAKES A PARAGRAPH GOOD
A
hook: a transitional phrase from the
previous paragraph.
A
topic sentence: a sentence that
introduces a topic of the paragraph.
Your
discussion: your idea coupled with
evidence as well as your logical
explanation/interpretation of the
evidence.
A
conclusive sentence: a summary of
the paragraph
WHAT IS SUMMARY?
Summary
includes…
A concise articulation of the main
idea(s) of articles.
Authors’ purpose
Intended audiences.
Why
do we need to summarize when
you write a rhetorical analysis paper?
PARAPHRASE
Paraphrase
is…
Restatement
of an original text in YOUR
OWN WORDS.
It
often concerns a particular passage or
action (see the difference from
summary)
Do
not change words sporadically (it is
not a paraphrase!).
ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK 1
 First-Year
Writing: Chapter 2 pp. 16-21; Chapter 3
pp. 37-46, 51-61

Sven Birkerts: "Into the Electronic Millennium" pp. 226233

Tina Rosenberg: "Everyone Speaks Text Message" pp.
267-271
 St.
Martin's Handbook: Chapter 12 f 2,
"Paraphrases" & Chapter 12 f 3, "Summaries"; Write
on Tutorials, "Summarizing and Paraphrasing
Sources"
 Audio
Lesson: Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis
ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK 2
No
BA for next week!
2nd Participation assignment
Read
the news paper article on our
course web and summarize it (250-300
words).
Paraphrase
a paragraph from “So he
decided to start…” (80-130 words)
Type
it out and bring it to the next
class. Don’t forget to put your name.
REVIEW OF THE WEEK
8
questions you need to ask as you read.
Good
paragraph consists: hook, topic
sentence, analysis, conclusive sentence
Summary
is to articulate article’s… main
ideas, intended audience, purpose.
Paraphrase
is to restate an original text
IN YOUR OWN WORDS
 Do
not even imitate original syntax.