Please post your two questions and one response to your peers' questions about chapter 3 of the Bedford Book of Genres by commenting on this post!
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Questions should be posted by 10PM the night before class, and comments should be no less than 150 words and finished by the time we meet in class.
1.) Though it is helpful to read a scientific report or a brochure, why is it important to read a few different sources?
ReplyDelete2.) How does using the elements of style, design, and sources help inform your audience?
It is important to read a few different sources because you want to make sure that what you are reading is correct. If you are reading an article about a science experiment or discovery, you want to make sure that what you are reading has been recognized by other people in the field. Another good thing with reading multiple sources is that you can get different viewpoints while also getting the same result. Reading multiple sources allows you to avoid "alternate facts" and get to what the real results of the research were. It is also important to view the most recent report or brochure about a study to get the most accurate information. If there is anything questionable about the report or brochure that you are reading, then you shouldn't use it for reference in an essay.
ReplyDelete1. What rhetorical appeal does a research paper have?
ReplyDelete2. Do you think that charts and graphs would fit in a traditional informative paper?
1) Research papers can usually include rhetorical appeals such as ethos and logos. Authors use these techniques so that their audience can have confidence in them and can trust that the information in the research paper is reliable. If an author is writing a research paper of environmental issues then he/she might use logos to persuade the audience to believe that the issues present are real and are occurring to a large extent and at an alarming rate. Ethos may be used so that the audience can trust the author and the information that is being written about. It adds credibility to the research paper. Ethos is also used so that the outside sources used in a research paper are conveyed as being trustworthy and reliable to the audience.
Delete1) How do elements of design aid in persuading your audience?
ReplyDelete2) Why would an author want to include an authors statement in their writing?
2. An author's statement can give more information about why they wrote the story. It can also give background information about various aspects of the story. In the same way that commentary for movies was created, it helps to teach the audience more about the story and about how and why things were written.
DeleteElements of design help the audience a great deal when looking at a piece of work. No matter what type of genre the author is creating, making it easy for the reader to follow along is key. For example when doing an instructional recipe about how too cook chicken marsala, the writer needs to make sure all of the ingredients are listed and visible to the reader (usually at the top of the page so the reader knows what he needs before diving into the recipe empty handed) and the method needs to be in order and explained thoroughly and clearly in numbered steps so the reader knows what to do and when. Another example of why design is important is to advertise. When looking at a graph about how much more popular an item is than another brand's item, the y-axis might go up by an interval of 20. But in order to make your brand look more popular, the interval could be reduced to 10 to make the bar for your brand appear to be a lot higher than the other.
Delete1. How do you decide which rhetorical appeals to use in a research paper?
ReplyDelete2. What classifies a source as scholarly and how do you know it's reliable?
2.Source is classified being scholarly when they are recognized by other scholars as experts of the subject they are writing about. They are written by scholars for scholars. Peer-reviewed articles are scholars. Scholars must cite their sources rigorously. You can figure out of it is reliable or not by checking the sources that were cited with in their paper and their work cited which is in the bibliographies. To make sure that all of the information possibly being used by you in your paper, from a scholar paper, you would want to read the source pages that are listed in order to insure you are using reliable information and resources. Scholars tend to write articles for peer review journals to share their research results with others and to allow other to reciprocate their research. Normally sources that are classified as scholarly, are written to persuade readers, so the source is not completely unbiased.
Delete1) When writing a research paper, one must first look at the material that is being written to decide which rhetorical appeal(s) would be most useful. Generally, both the ethos and logos rhetorical appeals can be found in all informational writings. Ethos serves to establish the author’s credibility and trustworthiness on the subject he is writing about. To establish credibility, it is critical that the author uses reliable sources of information for his research. It is also important that the author remains objective, or neutral, when writing an informational piece. The use of logos is also important, for it helps to convey the information in a clear and concise manner, and in a way that the audience can understand. Not only does the author use logos when presenting the information, but the author also seeks to appeal to the audience’s sense of logos so that they may understand and utilize the information presented.
Delete1. If I use a chart or info graph, would I use my own knowledge or find research to gather data and statistics, and how many sources would I need to show my information effectively?
ReplyDelete2. What research should a writer look into to inform their readers?
1) Explain why, in informative writing, accuracy and clarity are considered to be two essential qualities.
ReplyDelete2) Why is pathos a typically unfavorable rhetorical appeal to use when writing an informational piece?
1) How does the choice of a genre affect the use of design? Do all genres require the use of some design?
ReplyDelete2) What is the difference between primary and secondary sources and when are each necessary?