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These questions drive your knowledge of the BIG IDEA topic, THE RHETORICAL SITUATION. Use on any/all reading assignments to guide your understanding and assignments, especially Unit 8. There are additional questions in each unit. Most importantly, these KEY QUESTIONS should help you generate ideas about what to say in your commentary and discussion.
1.B
1.B Explain how an argument demonstrates understanding of an audience’s beliefs, values, or needs.
How does the writer anticipate and address the audience’s values, beliefs, needs, and background, particularly as they relate to the subject of the argument?
How do the writer’s rhetorical choices achieve their purpose and relate to the audience’s emotions and values?
In their argument, how does the writer seek to persuade or motivate action though appeals—the modes of persuasion?
How does the writer make comparisons (e.g., similes, metaphors, analogies, or anecdotes) in order to relate to the audience and advance the writer’s purposes?
How does the writer’s choices in diction and syntax influence how the audience perceives the writer and the degree to which an audience may accept the writer’s argument?
How does the writer’s word choice reflect their biases and possibly affect their credibility with a particular audience?
How does the writer tailor the evidence, organization, and language of their argument in consideration of both the context of the rhetorical situation and the intended audience’s perspectives on the subject and the audience’s needs?
2.B
2.B: Demonstrate an understanding of an audience’s beliefs, values, or needs.
Who is the intended audience of your argument?
What do you know or assume about your audience’s values, beliefs, needs, and background, particularly as they relate to the subject of your argument?
What rhetorical choices might you make to achieve your purpose and relate to your audience’s emotions and values?
In your argument, how might you seek to persuade or motivate action though appeals—the modes of persuasion?
How might you make comparisons (e.g., similes, metaphors, analogies, or anecdotes) that your audience will understand in order to relate to them and advance your purposes?
What diction and syntax choices should you make in order to influence not only how your audience perceives you but also the degree to which they may accept your argument?
How do you choose words that increase your credibility with a particular audience?
How do you recognize your own biases and then make word choices in your argument in consideration of those biases?
7.A
STYLE
7.A: Explain how word choice, comparisons, and syntax contribute to the specific tone or style of a text.
KQs
How does the writer strategically choose words based on not only their denotations and connotations but also their potential effect in the rhetorical situation?
How does the writer choose descriptive words and words with particular connotations to create a tone?
How does the writer’s precise word choice reduce potential confusion and affect how the audience perceives the writer’s perspective?
How do the word choice, syntax, and conventions employed by the writer contribute to their writing style?
How does the writer’s style and tone contribute to a complex, ironic, and/or changing perspective on the subject?
8.A
STYLE
8.A: Strategically use words, comparisons, and syntax to convey a specific tone or style in an argument.
KQs:
Which words might you choose in your argument after considering not only the words’ denotations and connotations but also their potential effect in the rhetorical situation?
How might you choose descriptive words and words with particular connotations to create a tone?
How might more precise word choices reduce potential confusion and affect how the audience perceives your perspective?
How do the word choices, syntax, and conventions that you employ contribute to your writing style?
How do your style and tone contribute to your complex, ironic, and/or changing perspective on the subject?
7.B
7.B: Explain how writers create, combine, and place independent and dependent clauses to show relationships between and among ideas.
KQs:
How does the writer convey main ideas through independent clauses?
How does the writer convey clear relationships between ideas within and across sentences?
How does the writer arrange clauses, phrases, and words to emphasize ideas?
How does the writer arrange sentences in a text to emphasize ideas?
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