Day 15

1. Attendance

2. Housekeeping

• Workload is going to increase. Be careful managing your time!
• Free grammar tutoring!!!!!

3. Rhetorical devices- Understanding Rhetorical Situations

Rhetorical Thinking important for your writing/reading/listening/critical thinking in English and your native language. This is one of the most important skills I learned in undergraduate school! 
For this unit we will prepare a 3-4 page essay analyzing rhetorical situations. This will help prepare you for ESL 112.

Warm up: First, lets look at these three different forms of communication by me.
One, two, three

• How are these different?
• List as many forms of communication you can. List in groups on the board.
• The type of communication we do in class depends on the Rhetorical Situation
• Let's look at this powerpoint
• Now pick three kinds of rhetorics you wrote on the board and analyze them with this worksheet.
• Finally,write two to three compare/contrast sentences comparing the kinds of rhetoric we did in class.

4. Persuasive Strategies

Now, we are going to discuss persuasive strategies. Let's look at advertising as an example.

• Ethical appeal (ethos)
• Emotional appeal (pathos)
• Logical appeal (logos)  

Look at the this Analysis of Rhetorical Situations handout. 
Now analyze the rhetorical appeals in this different handout in groups of three.

Next Class:

Homework:

Article and printout I handed out in class- Due Thursday, October 17th in class.

Reflection paragraph draft - Due Friday October 18th at 9AM. Turn it into the paragraph portfolio>reflection folder

Paragraph portfolio- Due Thursday, October 24th by 9AM. Remember this is worth 20% of your grade.

Writer's Help Exercises:

Major Uses of the Comma 1

Major Uses of the Comma 2