Post on 01-Jul-2015
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JONNA GILFUS
Introduction to Unit 3 in WRT 105
Arguing in Communities
How do you understand argument?
What are your experiences with argument?
(Re)defining Argument: Academic Argument
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition…. An argument is an intellectual process …
~Monty Python,” The Argument Clinic”
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition…. An argument is an intellectual process …
~Monty Python,” The Argument Clinic”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUIA40uLlKw
How can we develop a new understanding of the possibilities
for argument?
Slow down Notice Explore objects of study See with fresh eyes Look for complicating
evidence Seek tensions in claim
ideas
Start with Start with ANALYSIS…ANALYSIS…
Argument <> Analysis
a recursive relationship
Get it done
by Tuesday
Resist the same old way of thinking about argument….
NARROW the focus
SEE PAST THE BINARIESPractice thinking about stakeholders
Invite Complexity
Do More with Less
Limit the number of sources you are using.
Read your Sources “Rhetorically”
Who Produced this?
What’s the Project?
Aims? Methods? Materials?
Think about your argument rhetorically