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CHAP T E R COMPOSING IN A DIGITAL WORLD Eleanor Kutz CHAPTER 2
Denise Paster
Christian J. Pulver Discovering
Rhetorical Situations
and east into what we now call the Middle East, through west and central Asia
Writing Moves Cover.indd All Pages Framing Arguments Reading 9/20/16 3:48 PM We are a curious lot. Evolving over thousands of years in Africa, we moved north Custom English Guide
to China, into Europe—where we encountered Neanderthals around 44,000
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across the Bering Strait, to the Americas. Thousands of years later, we settled
down and began farming in the fertile lands between the Tigres and Euphrates
rivers, growing wheat and domesticating animals. But for thousands of years
Chapter Preview years ago—down through Malaysia to Australia, and eventually, by boat and 2018 - 2019 Department of English
We saw in Chapter 1 that Barry, as a college student, is embedded
in a network of relationships, both inside and outside of the class-
hardy individuals did make it to the Americas, but most did not survive; their
Argument is one of the most complex aspects of academic writing, making use of the elements
Pinpointing Chapter 8
presence is seen in a handful of archeological sites. Then in 1492, Columbus,
what he writes (the content and message), why he writes it (his
from each chapter to this point in Writing in Transit. When writers develop arguments, they conduct CENTRAL QUES TIONS room . With each act of speaking or writing, Barry has to consider more, contact between the eastern and western hemispheres was cut off. A few
purpose), how to do it in a way that will engage others in the
research, pose questions, read critically, summarize, synthesize, and analyze others’ research, as they
thinking he was blazing a new trail to the riches of the East for his Spanish
What is a rhetorical
progress through the stages of the writing process. To provide you with strategies for arguments in transit,
conversation, and where the interaction takes place (the context) .
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relationship and how
patrons, stumbled upon an island and its indigenous people in the West Indies,
Otherwise, his readers may click over to another Facebook page
can we draw on familiar
digital contexts to explore such
without posting a response, or skip through the posts he makes
relationships?
collaborative report . Even when he writes an essay for a course
Discovery and change have been the watchwords of our species. We speculate,
this chapter addresses the following concepts:
How can a research post
assignment, his readers are actively participating in a conversa-
we travel, we learn. And because we do these things, because they excite us,
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about a teen’s efforts
tion with him by reading and thinking about his words .
to maintain Facebook
we want to share what we have learned, what we have discovered, with others.
What is an Argument?
■ ■ Correcting Common Myths about Arguments privacy from parents help us to on the science wiki without drawing his ideas into the team’s final and everything changed. ›› VIEW BOOK
understand more about rhetorical
Purposes of Argument
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Chapters 9 and 10 address structural aspects and scope of arguments across disciplines and offer discus- relationships in online social So we developed language, art, and eventually writing. The very survival of our
Featured Criteria for Effective Argument: Avoiding Logical Fallacies
species, of our family, of ourselves, depends upon passing on to others, to the
Criteria for Effective Argument
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sion on how various platforms and designs for argument impact the way an argument develops.
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What role can one
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next generation, what we have discovered.
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academic genre, the
extended discussion
first college composition class? The answer is that in going to college you are
amoratunga, located in Kenya, dates from 300 B.C.E. and is considered one of the
N oldest archaeoastronomical sites in sub-Saharan Africa. The location actually consists post, play in building shared In making these decisions about communication, Barry is taking rhetorical relationship 49 So what does all this have to do with you, a freshman in college taking your Department of English
understandings and fostering
setting out on a personal voyage of discovery. If you continue on, it will change
a rhetorical relationship within
of two separate sites, both of which hold astronomical significance. Namoratunga pillars are
you. You will learn many new things in college, and if you are persistent, you
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will want to share what you have learned with others. You will want to join in
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conversations with other students, with your teachers, and with others beyond
eastern Africa.” The stones of Namoratunga track “the movement of seven constellations in
different reading strategies
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part in the social and shared process of conversation that is
your immediate circle of friends and family. You will even converse with writers
to think about how to enter
necessary for building and maintaining a relationship with
and thinkers who, though long dead, still speak to us today—you will be joining
into new rhetorical relationships
readers . This is what researchers in the field of composition refer
Many different scholars have engaged in arguments surrounding Namoratunga. While
relation to the lunar cycle” (Chwanya; Lynch and Robbins; Martin).
the connection built
the great conversation, one that has been going on for at least six thousand years.
through our reading?
to as a rhetorical relationship In this chapter, we’ll explore
some of them focus on the age of the stones or interpretation of their design, much like the
between writers and
more fully this kind of relationship between readers and writers
readers through a text
arguments we encountered regarding petroglyphs in Chapter 7, the vast range of arguments
in specific communicative situations, focusing especially on our
about Namoratunga reflect what is an enormously wide array of possible disciplinary perspec-
tives within and across which arguments emerge.
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