Directions:
If your LAST name starts with a letter between A-H answer the following questions:
- CREDIBILITY - #1
- EVIDENCE - #1 & #2
- COMMON GROUND - #1
If your LAST name starts with a letter between J-Z answer the following questions:
- CREDIBILITY - #2 & #3
- EVIDENCE - #3
- COMMON GROUND - # 1
THE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE BY TUESDAY @ 12noon
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Credibility, Evidence, and Common Ground
Credibility – In 6-c, Hacker recommends that your
introduction should “establish credibility and state your position” (86).
- We don’t have Epstein’s
formal introduction. But she still has to maintain credibility and state
her position. Find one passage that illustrates how she maintains
credibility and one passage in which she states her position.
Quote each passage, and explain why you selected them.
- Re-read your introduction
for Paper 1. What revisions can you make to your introduction to help
establish your credibility?
- Does your introduction
include a sentence (or two) that articulates your perspective or position?
If so, good. Rewrite the sentence(s) for this assignment. If not, try to
locate such sentences in your draft. Rewrite those sentences in a way that
helps you get your perspective into the introduction.
Evidence – Evidence is the stuff that supports our
points or ideas. In 6-e, Hacker writes about three main kinds of evidence:
facts and statistics, examples and illustrations, expert opinion (89-90).
- Find one example of each
kind of evidence in Epstein’s article. Quote each passage and explain how
the evidence works to support a specific point or claim.
- Look at your draft. Find
one example of at least two kinds of evidence in your draft. What
point does each piece of evidence help you support (or develop)? If the
evidence isn’t supporting a point, is there a point that you can make
with that evidence? Is there other evidence that might better help you support
that point?
- Examples and
illustrations, when used together with other evidence, can help “flesh out
an argument and bring it to life” (Hacker 89). Find a specific example of
lifestyle branding on the (Red) website. Try to use that example in
combination with “expert opinion” on lifestyle branding to develop a point
of your own. (In other words, write a paragraph that makes a claim or
point by using expert opinion and an example from (Red).)
Common Ground – We sometimes seek to overlook or
ignore the evidence (or the perspective) that doesn’t support our own position
when we make an argument. When we do this we miss opportunities to persuade
readers. At the extreme, such omissions can undermine our credibility.
- Find a passage that shows
Epstein working “to build common ground” (Hacker 93). What would be lost
if Epstein left that passage out of her article?
Revisit your draft for Paper 1. As you think about the
position(s) you are taking, do you see pieces from Epstein or (Red) that might
lead people to take a different position? How might you account for that
material and build some common ground?