Monday: Intro to Argument

We started class by discussing the argument in this political cartoon, one of the types of visual texts we will be analyzing during this unit.

Then, we read the short introduction to Argument from Everything's an Argument and took notes on the graphic organizer I attached on Friday's post.

On the back side, I showed students a different definition of argument that refers to academic writing and draws a clear distinction between argument vs. persuasion.  Students took notes onto the four square. Here is the handout we took notes from:

Tonight the homework is to reflect on what you learned from reading the chapter and the difference between argument (which applied to the EA chapter is really the argument to convince) and persuasion.

Tomorrow---fallacies!