For my argumentative writing piece, my purpose of this was to inform how fees in higher education were causing many problems and it should be free. Before doing all of this, I firstly thought about the audience. I believed this issue should be informed to everyone. This is quite vague as it does not have a specific target audience. So, my focuses are on the educated people and people who are willing to learn higher studies in our society, as this topic mostly appeals to them. I wanted to write in a style of an editorial newspaper, expressing all my opinions about this. Therefore, I employed many facts and statistics as possible to make my article convincing and engaging for the reader rather than just presenting all my opinions which disinterests them.
One key thing that I mostly considered in my article was the tone. As the purpose of my article was to inform, I thought that a serious tone would be appealing. It is also appealing to my audience as they can clearly understand this type of tone. Another key thing that I also considered in my article is the language and how it would appeal to my audience. Throughout my article I decided to write formally. I used phrases such as ‘it is’ rather than ‘it’s’ to make it sound formal. I did this because my audience were more likely to be educated people such as professors or people who are willing to pursue higher studies. Therefore, by communicating in a formal way would be appropriate for them to read.
Complex sentences are more likely to be prevalent in formal writing. They provide a lot of detail. However, too many long sentences would easily lose the reader’s interest and would not engage them whereas short sentences are more punchy and quick, however they are not very detailed. T...
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...sed was emotive language. This helped me to explain my points. However, I did not excessively use them. I thought this technique will sustain the reader’s interest as it allows them to have an immediate emotional reaction, which influences their thoughts.
I also presented my writing by presenting lots of points that supported by viewpoint because obviously it would strengthen my argument. However, I did show some points that were against my viewpoint. When I presented the opposing view in my article I intended to write in less detail. This is because if it was detailed, then it would just weaken my argument. Therefore, to ensure that my argument was always stronger than the opposing view, I counter argue the opposing views in the next paragraph by mostly using startling facts and statistics to show the reader how the ideas of the opposite view are wrong and absurd.
While this article was written extremely well and understandable it is not very effective, An effective article or essay will have a strong style, language and tone.“Hidden Intellectualism” does not have a clear or strong style mentioned in the essay. The author is clear with his point and opinion but he restates himself multiple times. He does not have a clear style of writing where the reader can collect and group their personal thoughts together. The author’s tone is also very bias and harsh towards the subject. The article states “Give me the student anytime who writes sharply argues, sociologically acute analysis of an issue of source over the students who writes a lifeless explication on Hamlet or Socrates Apology”(Graff 792). The author does not look at the other perspective of others and only focuses on his point of view. The articles detail also is not very adequate or strong,”Hidden Intellectualism” states “I offer my own adolescent experience as a case in point” (Graff 788). The author uses his personal experiences with academics to proves to us his point. Further in the article there is not enough detail or examples to help the reader understand his point of view. Lastly, the article is not effective for the reader and needs to have a clearer style, more detail and examples for others to relate
“Unteaching the Five Paragraph Essay” by Marie Foley demonstrates how a five paragraph essay formula disturbs the thought process of the students and limits what they can write. A five paragraph essay is an introduction with the main idea, with three supporting topics showing the relationship to the main idea, and a conclusion summarizing the entire essay. Foley argues that this formula forces students to fill in the blank and meet a certain a word limit. She noted that this formula was intended for teachers in the education system to teach an overcrowded class how to write. While it is beneficial for the first-time students learning how to write. In the long run, this standard destroys any free style writing, new connections between a topic,
However, though John Warner’s argument is strong, Kerri smith’s argument is stronger. In Kerri Smith’s article “In Defense of the Five-Paragraph Essay,” She claims that the five-paragraph essay should stay taught in schools as a guideline for a well-structured essay. She explains the five-paragraph essay as an “introduce-develop-conclude structure” that even great expository writing follows this structure (Smith 16). She purposefully communicates to her audience this idea to show that this structure gives students the knowledge and capability to write a professional essay. The five-paragraph essay includes the three key points to have a well-structured and organized essay. By mentioning that other great writers use this form of structure, she creates a stronger argument as to why the five-paragraph essay is important to education. She continues her article by explaining her early stages of writing and how she was taught; over time, her teachers would show her new ways to improve her writing which, in the end, she was told to think “of those five paragraphs simply as a mode of organization” (Smith
As students we are taught that in order to have an effective argument, we need a claim, reasoning, and evidence. When comparing, “Two Years Are Better than Four” by Liz Addison, and “Colleges Prepare People for Life” by Freeman Hrabowski it was made obvious that the passage written by Addison had a more effective argument because of the passages claim that was clear to the readers, great reasoning and evidence that backed up her claim.
he evaluation of the overall rhetorical effectiveness for intended audience was a failure starting with the ethos of having no much credibility for the author, pathos, no real connection to emotion to aid the doctor, and not being able to see the real problem, and with the lack of logos to explain how to be able to obtain aid and help the student improve. As a result, in the editorial the authors had no success in persuading all the audience. For that reason, college students should be able to see the correct way to write their essay and the effective method for them to pass class with excellent essays.
3 - An academic argument is based on facts from reliable sources, not opinions or theories. The writer needs to avoid inflicting their personal opinion in their writing. A writer will write with directives to initiate a response from readers when it is a personal opinion and when it is an academic argument, the writer will write with firmness because they have facts to support their
Frahm holds a similar point of view encouraging clear, straightforward writing not one with a “Confusing introduction. Lack of content. Bad transitions. (and) Excessive grammatical errors.” (Frahm 271).
What do you think of when you think of complex writing? Many people would think of something that they couldn’t read because it was to hard to read. That issue is exactly what is being addressed in the world of academics today. Academics today are writing to a level that is very hard to understand, sometimes even to fellow academics. To the advantage of those who hate reading complex writing, other writers and researchers are starting to speak out on the topic. A newer style of writing is becoming more popular through the controversy. That style of writing is clear and concise writing. It is still controversial as to what is the “best” or what should be used as the common writing style, but there could be a time in the near future that writing by academics and less scholarly people, alike, are writing in the same way.
Persuasiveness is a vital skill all authors and essayists must master in order to effectively communicate their ideas. “The Great Person-Hole Cover Debate: A Modest Proposal for Anyone Who Thinks the Word “He” Is Just Plain Easier…” (Person-Hole Cover Debate) written by Lindsy Van Gelder is a poor example of how to construct a persuasive essay. This essay can be deconstructed into three key areas which are used to judge an essays persuasiveness. Failure to achieve effectiveness in these areas deem a persuasive essay ineffective. These areas include persuasive essay fundamentals, literary devices, and features. “Person-Hole Cover Debate” fails its goal of persuading the audience to comprehend and eventually agree with the thesis of the essay.
In William Zinnser’s essay “Simplicity” he states that “clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.” He believes that people speak more complexly then they have to and that the key to good writing and speaking is simplicity. In his argument he goes on to say that often writers are not careful enough. They know what they are trying to say but do not know how to put it down on paper. They assume that the reader will understand what they are thinking even though their writing is not obvious to others. He does make several suggestions for improvement. Very easily one could make their writing easier to understand by simple corrections.
The assignment was to compose a long essay arguing the effectiveness of one essay over another using how the author uses the rhetorical appeals as evidence. Michelle Obama’s “Bowie State University Commencement” speech conveyed a message that people should value education and also enrich the lives of others with knowledge. However, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill present the essay “Should Everyone Go to College? The essay gives numerous statistics based on arguments of whether college is the right decision for everyone and which majors have negative financial repercussions. Obamas use of the rhetorical appeals were much stronger and persuasive to argue that we should value education rather than Owen and Sawhill stating that college is not the right decision for everyone. When composing this essay I created a chart dividing the two and putting down how each used the rhetorical appeals then I began to write. After receiving my graded document and reviewing my peer reviewed document I fixed comma splices, clarified my topic sentences and also fixed grammatical
Writing can be very frustrating; laying your ideas out on paper so that others can grasp the concept you are trying to convey is a very difficult task. In Writing 101 I have learned how to formulate good theses that are arguable and also how to validate articles that have to do with my topic. The most important element of a paper is the thesis statement. It captures the reader's attention and tells them what the essay is about. Having a well-structured thesis along with evidence to support that thesis are the main ingredients to a well-written essay. I have also learned how important it is to research an author’s background to ensure their credibility. This is a very important step in writing because today we can find information on a topic, however, it is not valid. By researching the author, we can see if he or she is an expert in the area and so this would make his or her information more credible. There is a ...
My English 1310 course was taught by Professor Daniel Stuart. He taught us the concept of academic writing and why it is important. Academic writing is the process of breaking down ideas, using a formal tone, deductive reasoning and third person. Writing done to carry out the requirements of a college or university on a research based level. It requires a starting point or introduction, followed by a thesis on the preferred topic, then comes proving and disproving of the evidence based arguments. It is important because it is a way to communicate our thoughts clearly and originality. It helps us think and see what evidence we can come up to contribute to that thinking. This course approached this idea of academic writing by exploring further
This is where the writer provides ideas and arguments with corresponding analysis, interpretation and evaluation. It also requires proficiency in grammar usage which means a writer should be mindful of the rules and conventions in writing to avoid erroneous sentence structure. Consistency is one of the skills needed in academic writing by making essays free from personal feelings and biases. A clear sense of argument is very important in academic writing because in writing the thoughts of writer would be vividly expressed. One has to give ideas and perception on a certain thing in the surroundings such as real object, picture, text, artifacts, phenomena and
Without the audience, there is no specific way a writer can establish structure for their essay. The purpose of the audience is easily overlooked by most writers resulting in an improper balance to their essay. In Bartholomae’s Inventing the University he states “ After taking on the sound of the specialized discourse, students must try to seem as insiders with their academic by beginning with common points…” Through his statement, Bartholomae attaches the concept of using similar language as the audience in order to to gain their attention. Through similar language it is easier for the audience to connect with the writer and have a better reception of the writing. Similar to the purpose statement, the audience must be addressed clearly and properly in the assignment. When writers fluctuate between different audiences their writing can come off as sloppy and not personal. Without the proper connection to the audience, the writer will struggle to convey their purpose effectively, which can ruin a paper. Although a paper may include a clear purpose statement and address the audience properly, the paper will not be efficient without credible