We Compose:

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We Compose

• Music
• Photographs
• Letters, emails
• Ourselves

2
We Frame

• Our Pictures and Photos
• Our Houses
• And talk about having a Frame of Reference

3
Acts of composition

• Reading and writing are both acts of composing.
  
• What we bring to the reading
• all of our prior knowledge, our life
  experiences, our cultural background, our gender,
  .

4
Genre

• A kind, a sort, a style, a type
• A category of artistic composition characterized
  by a particular style, form, or content
• A distinctive type of written composition

5
Argumentative Essays

• This is not what we mean by argument

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Argumentative EssaysTake Two

• Purpose
• Audience
• Topic
• Approach to the Topic - Qualified
• Support
• Assumptions
• Structure
• Voice

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Knowledge Telling vs. Knowledge Transforming

• Telling Transforming

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The Writer Must

• Convince the audience that s/he is knowledgeable
  about the subject
• Present a balanced perspective on the topic
• Base claims on logical and credible evidence
• Use language in such a way as to appear truthful
  and fair

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Our Objective

• If you leave your essay lying on a table in the
  library
• where people might wander by and find it
• and then pick it up to read it,
• you want them to say to themselves .

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This is an idea worth considering.
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At last, The End