Log 2A Hotspots!

Page 13 “At the heart of all these communities of writers and readers is an interest in common questions and the hope for better or different answers. Writers write because they have something new or surprising or challenging to say in response to a question. Readers read because they share the writer’s interest in the problem and want to deepen their understanding.”

Page 6 They discovered that members of these organizations (American Psychological Association and the International City Management Association) spend, on average, forty-four percent of their professional time writing, including (most commonly) letters, memos, shorts reports, instructional materials, and professional articles and essays.”

Page 36 “One of the best ways to explore a question is to play what writing theorists Peter Elbow called the “believing and doubting game.” This game helps you appreciate the power of alternative arguments and points of view by urging you to formulate and explore alternative positions. To play the game, you can imagine a possible answer to a problematic question and then systematically try first to believe that answer and then to doubt it. This game stimulates your critical thinking, helping you wallow in complexity and resist early closure.”

Page 41-42 are able to change the readers’ thoughts about the topic. The quotation said, “First, you can enlarge it. Writing that enlarges a view is primarily informational; it provides new ideas and data to add to a reader’s store of knowledge about the subject.” and “Second, you can clarity your reader’s view of something that was previously fuzzy, tentative, or uncertain.”

Page 50 “One way that messages persuade is through their “angle of vision,” which is formed by the way the writer selects or omits details, chooses words with intended connotations, uses sentence structure and overall organization to emphasize certain points and de-emphasize others, adopts on kind of tone and style rather than other and so on.”

Page 55-56 “Developing the habit of examining how these appeals are functioning in texts and being able to employ these appeals in your own writing will enhance your ability to read and write rhetorically. Let look briefly at each: Logos is the appeal to reason and it refers to the quality of the message itself, Ethos which is the appeal to the character of the speaker/writer and Pathos which is the appeal to the sympathies, values, beliefs, and emotions of the audience.”