Feb. 3rd, 2016
WRT 205 CLASS NOTES
Announcements:
- When you post notes on the blog, post them within 24 hours of class so your classmates will be up to date with whats going on. TAGS: #Classnotes, #DATE
- PUSH BACK DUE DATE–no longer due Monday, now Wednesday, Feb. 10th, 2016. (Will be speaking about it in class today.)
Improving End-of-Life Care: A Public Health Call to Action–by Sally Hass
What we know from her Introduction:
-Her goal
-Her audience–pushes emotion into the reader. Her first chosen word is “We”.
Q: What do we like to get from the introduction?
A: -Some type of thesis statement
-Some type of engagement, the author reaching out to the reader. (Most texts are read by the people that are supposed to read them.)
-Learning what value the text has to you–why you should care?
-Why should I care? What are you going to argue?
-Setting the tone–is it funny? Is it a story, personal antidote?
Technique (One paragraph at a time) Answer:
- What does the paragraph say/main idea?
- What purpose does this serve in the larger piece?
Writing style: Very explicit and straightforward
-Pg. 4–She begins the comparisons to talk about how the two different fields (public health and clinical health) connect.
Grammer:
–Parallel Construction: When you build you sentences the same way. *Very useful when you have a complex, multi-part argument and you are trying to get your point across.
–Coordination: When both ideas are equal.
(Ex. Death happens to individuals; it is a population experience.)
–Subordination: When one idea has more weight than the other.
(Ex: Though death happens to individuals, it is a population experience.
–Dependent Clause: When a group of words can not stand alone, which needs to be coupled with an independent clause.
Ex: Though death happens to individuals (<DEPENDENT!), it is a population experience.
–Independent Clause: When a group of words can stand together on its own.
Ex: Though death happens to individuals, it is a population experience (INDEPENDENT).
**All of the comparisons that Hess makes subordination comparisons, which makes public health the main idea of the text.
What is Framework:
-Pulling in a lot of information and explaining what she thinks these things mean.
Ending Class:
- Bring essay to class on Monday (Improving end of life care)
- DUE MONDAY: Go back to original post(s) that you shared on the blog, and do a quick comment that lays out the rhetorical situation: author, audience, purpose, context, exigence (<why the text comes to be? What is the driving force that made them create the text?)
-Locate and explain two of your posts (couple of sentences) examples of how the text uses research material and what purpose(s) that stuff serves.
DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY:
-Larger scale rhetorical analysis: Select three to four texts and focus on the writerly choices that are in the texts-how the writing is put together. (Any links on the blog.)