- writing to the assignment -did you reply to a particular statement? did you identify that statement in your introduction? did you establish your ethos - and appeal to your audience's perspective => see the assignment sheet;
- focus - did each paragraph of your essay make a point with respect to the focus you set up in your introduction? does that focus connect to the position taken by the statement you are opposing/supporting?
- organization - do you provide background information first? did you connect to a point you and the "other side:" agree on before "attacking"? did you establish yourself as having authority - before making claims? Persuasion is not only about reason - you need to think about how your audience will "hear" your reasons, and the order of your essay can make the difference between getting the other side to listen - and having them refuse to read your essay
- development - did you support each of your points? did you connect it to your overall focus?
Hopefully you got enough workshopping to see what you needed to work on. The rest of the class was devoted to one-on-one conferences, and work on your writing.
We also talked about quotation and paraphrasing - and how to decide when you should do which. See the handout on the sidebar - and the information at the purdue owl.
For next class you will turn in your complete, revised draft for your persuasive essay (Project 1), and we begin talking about analytic writing = what it is and how it works.
Write: finish the revised draft for the persuasive essay - send it to me as an email attachment due before class on Thursday, March 10.
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