English Response Exam

Claim

A very condensed version of your overall argument, the basic message that you want to convince your audience of.

All good arguments consist of these basic elements

Claims, reasons, and evidence

Reasons

explains why an audience should believe this assertion

What makes a response "timely" and why is that important

A response is timely when the person making the argument is attuned to when and where their argument is appropriate

Stasis theory

A strategy the helps clarify which questions are most important to an issue

What are the claims of the clergymen in "A Call For Unity"

1. Obey the court's decisions 2. Demonstrations are unwise and untimely 3. Outsiders have no place in this conflict 4. Extreme measures are not justified 5. The police have repainted in a calm manner 6. The black community should not support the demonstrations 7. The black community should WAIT

A response paper

A paper written in response to how one either agrees or disagree and how you feel about something written

Argument

A process of inquiry to develop a response to a rhetorical problem

Academic paper

An academic paper is when one writes a response to a text that discusses an issue you don't know much about or that you may not have a strong opinion of yet.

Why is argumentation important to Christians?

As Christians we need to be ready to defend the Word of God with a solid argument. Knowing how to argue scholarly is very important to the Christian walk.

What does question of Definition ask?

Builds from question of fact and asks "what is it?" Or "how can it be classified?"

Question of Fact

Did something happen? What happened

E in PIE

Explanation

Question of Definition

How can we classify the thing? Should we classify it differently?

I in PIE

Illistration

Primary Evidence

Information gathered directly about the topic through observation, interview, experiment, questionnaires/surveys; it can also include newspaper accounts of an event.

Consider MLK's use of 1st and 2nd person

MLK uses 1st and 2nd to show the personal side of the letter since he is addressing the clergymen. This also show his ethos since he personally experienced some of these things he wrote.

How does MLK establish ethos

Personal experience/fact ls about treatment using 1st and 2nd person -treats the audience with respect -fair-minded -does not attack the audience -does not rant :persuade not alienate

The P in PIE

Point

PIE acronym

Point, Illustration, Explanation

Evidence

Proves that something is true or false

Secondary evidence

Provides interpretation of primary evidence through scholarly articles, newspaper analysis, and op-Ed columns.

Who was the audience in "A Call for Unity"

The citizens

Who's MLK's audience

The clergymen

What's the purpose of a response argument?

The purpose of an argument is to accomplish making a clear argument for what you believe

Examples and references of MLK's uses and the purpose behind them

Uses an example of the police dogs attacking his people, police officers pushing and cursing negro women and children. This is to show that the police were not calm about this. Another example is hitler to show that what he did was legal but not right.

What does question of fact attempt to establish?

Whether something exists or whether something happens