Final Exam Prep Day 3 AUDIENCE NARRATIVE ANALYSIS

Final Exam Prep, Day 3 AUDIENCE, NARRATIVE, ANALYSIS, ARGUMENT, EVIDENCE

Audience… Review from LBH page 21 -22: Your sense of audience influences three key elements of your writing: • The specific information you use to gain and keep the attention of readers and to guide them to accept your conclusions • The role you choose to play in relation to your readers (depending upon your purpose and your attitude toward your topic, you will want readers to perceive you in a certain way) • The tone you use (depending upon your aims and what you think your readers will expect and respond to, your tone may be formal or information…the attitude you convey may be serious or light, etc. )

Audience… When writing an essay, what might you adjust if you are considering readers? • Background information • Tone • Counterargument and Rebuttal • Lead or Hook

Literacy Narrative Essays… What is the purpose of writing a literacy narrative? • To make sense of your life • To understand how you gained literacy How are Literacy Narratives usually organized? • Chronological Order

Analysis Essays… What is the reason that we write analysis essays? • So that we can evaluate arguments • So that we can better understand how writers use writing in order to be persuasive What should you never do when writing an analysis essay? • Take a position on the issue being discussed—agree or disagree with the argument you are evaluating

Analysis Essays… How is an Analysis Essay different from an Argument Essay? • In an argument essay, you are expected to take a position on an issue; in an analysis essay, you are expected to evaluate a text What are two different ways that you might organize a Comparative Analysis Essay? • Subject-by-Subject (where you discuss one text, transition, and discuss another text) • Point-by-Point (where you discuss both essays together, organizing paragraphs based on rhetorical elements rather than texts)

Argument Essays… What are the aims of an argumentative essay? • To persuade readers to adopt your position concerning an issue • To persuade readers to think more critically about their own stances on an issue • To take a position on a controversial issue

Evidence… What kinds of evidence might you include in an argumentative essay? • Anecdotal evidence • First-person experiential evidence • Examples • Statistics • Results from studies • Laws • Relevant information from authoritative secondary sources