Logos, Pathos, Ethos, cont....Writing Notes, writing assignment # 1

1.  Please place your crane on the front desk, should you have it.  If you don't, submit another time.

2.  Attendance.

3.  Journal-  As a close to the thinking skills unit, please identify 5 thinking skills you used (or will use) in completing your crane, and explain why you think you used them.

Example:  To complete my crane I had to identify, since when I looked at a picture of a fold, I had to recognize where the fold was supposed to be made on the paper.

4.  Notes:


TAP:

Topic--  What it's about---  Interesting to others.
Audience-- Who it's for-- It's for a general audience.
Purpose-- Why it's being written.  It could be to entertain, explain, etc.

6-Traits (of grading/writing)

Some educators got together and decided that good writing is made up of these 6 things.  There's no way great writing can be boiled down into a list, but this is a passable way to teach and grade writing, and it's a also a pretty good framework for understanding the beginning.

Voice:                                Personality in your writing.
Ideas and Content:            Important/Interesting topics and support of those topics.
Conventions:                    Grammar
Word Choice:                   Choosing the best word.
Sentence Fluency:           A good mix of short and long sentences.
Organization:                   A good plan for your essay.

Writing Process-  Steps we follow to make a successful paper, in this order:

Invention:      Creating ideas.  We use a journal, tv, radio, friends, etc. ( Ideas and Content)
Organize:       This is planning out our ideas in some type of logical order.  (Organization)
                       Use an outline, word web, or list.
Draft:             This a practice essay.  It's our first try- don't worry about gram errors  (Voice)
Revise:          To re-look.  Look again at sentences, organization, ideas, etc. ( Word choice, Sentence F)
Edit:               Finding and fixing grammatical/syntactical errors. ( Conventions)
Publish:         Publish means perfect.  No editing mistakes. ( We're done!)

No Way Mistakes:

a.  Tense shift.  I love to eat when I was hungry.

b.  PNA-    Someone who is cool has all the tricks; they know how to...

c.  VTA-  I loves to eat.

d.  Comma Splice: (CS) I love to eat, I love to cook.

e.  Run on:  I love to eat I love to cook.

f.  Parallelism:  I love to ride my bike, walk the dog, and watching movies.

g.  Fragment:   When I walked to the park I saw my friend and then I saw.


5.  Groups-- Practice Homework.  We'll use a print ad, but your HW will be for a commercial that contains all three appeals.

In your groups, please identify the TAP then the pathos, logos, ethos and explain how you know that it is pathos, logos, and ethos.  



HOWEWORK-  Find a commercial or print ad that displays Logos, Pathos, and Ethos.  You'll return witha 4 paragraph essay that: 

Paragraph 1.  Describes the ad and notices the topic, audience, and purpose.

Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4: identifies the pathos, logos, and ethos in the ad, explains how you know that it is pathos, logos, or ethos, and explains the implications.

Please bring your essay to class to be edited by others, and we'll also, next time, discuss grading in detail.

Have a safe weekend.