AGENDA:
20 Top Figurative Language Terms Quiz
Work on intros for Argumentation (Persuasive Essay) Writing
https://resources.oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/skaczur/portfolio2/Persuasive%20Writing.pdf
- Agree--But With a Difference
- You need to do more than simply echo the views that you agree with; bring something new and fresh to the conversation.
- Open up some difference or contrast between your position and the one you're agreeing with.
- Point out unnoticed implications.
- Explain something that needs to be better understood.
- Remember: When you agree with one person, you are disagreeing with someone else.
- Disagree--And Explain Why
- You need to do more than simply say you disagree with a particular view; you have to offer persuasive reasons for why you disagree.
- Demonstrate that you have something to contribute to the conversation.
- "Duh" move = disagreeing not with the position itself, but the assumption that is new.
- "Twist it" move = agree with the evidence that someone else has presented, but show through twist of logic that the evidence actually supports your own, contrary position.
- Qualifying (Agree and Disagree)
- Goes beyond and "is too/ is not" exchange.
- Keeps argument complex.
- You can tip towards agreement or disagreement depending on where you lay your stress.
- Answering the "who cares?" and "so what?" questions in your own writing.
- "Who cares?"
- Identify an interested person or group.
- Establish a type of contrast between what others say and what you say.
- Use of dramatic tension or clash of views helps your readers feel invested in what you are saying.
- "So what?"
- Link your argument to some larger matter that your readers already believe to be important.
- Hook your readers.
- Give real-world application of your claims.
- Frame it in a way that helps the reader care about it.
