Directions: after you have presented your theses to the class, type up the workshopped/edited thesis and your four reasons/topic sentences. For this week, you will not be required to comment on your classmates' blogs, but I would encourage you to review your classmates' blogs, in case you are still struggling.
Due by 10pm the day you present your thesis. So, if you present on Monday, the blog will be due at 10pm that night. If you present on Wednesday, the blog will be due by 10pm that night.
5 points for being on time
5 points for following directions (you must have at least four reasons to support your thesis)
THESIS
ReplyDeleteKurt Vonnegut’s "How to Write with Style," persuades amateur writers to incorporate personality into all of their writings. The majority of his argument uses precise wording and list formatting, so that he can reflect his writing style.
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. Vonnegut uses descriptive word choice this is appealing to the readers emotions.
2. Vonnegut humors his audience thru out his essay; this draws the reader into the text, while also modeling how to write papers with personality.
3. Vonnegut formatted his essay in a list layout to make the steps easier for the readers to understand.
4. Vonnegut references other well-known authors and how writing with personality applies to them.
In "How to Write With Style," Kurt Vonnegut explains how using his eight steps can help his audience write with more personality. His use of humor and personal tone make it easy to believe the steps can assist in conveying any authors personality through their writing.
ReplyDeleteVonnegut uses a step by step system that is easy to comprehend. His voice throughout the article is personal and never talks down to the reader. He uses humor throughout the article making it easy to read and even entertaining. Vonnegut's knowledge of the field is apparent through employment of his own technique and reference of other historical writers.
While the comical aspects of Laura Frasers' "Why I stopped being a vegetarian" can entertain her audience, her inadequate reasoning could lead to open interpretation.
ReplyDeleteReasons
ReplyDelete1. Author uses humor to engage her audience.
2. Lack of a main point to her argument
3. The audience is left to interpret why the author wrote this essay.
4. The author goes back and forth between using humor, to using facts about vegetarianism which can confuse an audience as to what the main argument is.
Kurt Vonnegut, In his “How To Write With Style”, successfully convinces the writers that in order to become good writers, they must write with their own personality and to keep it simple by using his eight steps to write the advertorial he reveals the effectiveness of his advice.
ReplyDelete"How to Write With Style" by Kurt Vonnegut, is a personable essay for amateur writers. His use of language and tone encourage the readers to believe that writing with their own voice is possible.
ReplyDelete1) Vonnegut uses humorous language throughout the text, drawing them in to his essay.
2) Vonnegut is straight and to the point
3) Vonneguts format supports his points, causing the readers to believe what he is saying.
4) Vonnegut provides other valuable resources and examples in the text.
Through nostalgic reflections, in Scholar Boy, Rodriguez conveys a message that separation from family life, while in school, is unnecessary to obtain academic success.
ReplyDelete1. Achieving academic success means some sacafices must be made, but to what extent?
2.Does sacrafice of identity and culture assist in the educational process?
3.Is it logical to have the belief that erasing heritage can aid in the achievement of education?
4.Rodriguez makes the statement: " Good schooling requires that any student alter early childhood habits" (p18). His siblings are also successful. Could his lack of confidence be what prompted this statement?
"Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian,"by Laura Fraser attempts to convince felxitarians that choosing to be a vegetarian was opting out of a part of life that she enjoyed. Her logical fallacies in her definition of vegetarian and the false ultimatum between vegetarianism and lesbianism make her argument fallacious and ineffective.
ReplyDelete1) The definitions Fraser uses are not accurate.
2) Fraser adds to the confusion by not sticking to her bad definitions.
3) Fraser has many logical fallacies.
4) Fraser was at no point in this story a "vegetarian" she just had a temporary aversion to meat of the land and sky.