week 6 post

This week was a special one, my birthday was on Saturday! Im really not one to go all out on my birthday. I just went out for dinner and drink with a few friends, it was really fun.

Well for this week we were assigned two reading.

The first reading was chapter 4 in Understanding Rhetoric. I really enjoy this aspect of rhetoric, argumentation and debate. I took and argument and debate class last year at the city college and I really learned a lot about being persuasive, researching, and how to always back up claims with supporting evidence. Another thing that I learned which was briefly mentioned in the text is considering the opposite view. When we recognize our opposing view in an argument is shows that we have done the work and evaluated not just our own but also the opponents side of the argument. This could make us seem more credible in what we are talking about.

The other reading that we were assigned to do was chapter 7 in They Say, I Say. This chapter of the book explains how to hook a reader in. When we read articles or books, we most often ask ourselves, is this relevant? Why am I reading this? This chapter explains that we should explain to our readers why we are writing and why our audience should read it. This helps keep our audience interested in the material and with a better sense of why they are reading our work and what they can expect to get out of it.

I have a few drafts of some thesis statements that i am going to bring into class.
After work I'm going to edit them once more then have some of my friends proof read them .