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Erin OKeefe and Elizabeth Liz Martell Allen Community College Discussion How do we get students to participate more substantially in the writing of their own essay? Pre-Writing Techniques Free-writing Tape Recorder

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Erin O’Keefe and Elizabeth “Liz” Martell Allen Community College

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Discussion

How do we get students to participate more

substantially in the writing of their own essay?

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Pre-Writing Techniques

 Free-writing  Tape Recorder  Clustering  News/Topic Exploration  Defining Topic through

Questions

 What are successful

prewriting activities that you use?

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Building a Case

 Role-Playing activities  Analyzing Case Studies  “Madman on the Bridge”  Outlines

 Informal lists  Formal/sentence

 Difference between Persuasion and Argumentation

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Reducing Pathos

 Differences between Opinion, Editorial, and News

Article

 Understanding Audience  Identifying claims  Word choice  Understanding Rhetorical Appeals through

Advertising

 Example: Man avoiding treatment

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Avoiding Logical Fallacies

 Most problematic:

 Argumentum ad Populum  Authority Fallacy

 Use of Commercials –

Simpson’s Coke ad

 How do you teach fallacies?

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Contact Information

Erin O’Keefe English Instructor eokeefe@allencc.edu 785-654-2416 x226 Elizabeth “Liz” Martell English Adjunct Instructor lmartell@cableone.net 620-366-0317