ENG 102- Notes

Rhetoric- Used to get your point across, and could be used or defined to hide the
truth. Writing matter, and how you say it and in what tone.
Rhetoric situation-
• The writer
• The purpose
• The Audience
• The Topic
(surrounded by the context in which you right)- that is also surrounded in culture

Writing processes:
(The process of crafting right)
My process:

List possible topics

Find the right one
Create outline
Create thesis
Write draft
Revise
Revise
Revise

Arguments:

1. Creative and productive activities that engages us at high levels of inquiry

and critical thinking, often a conversation
a. Seeking for the best solution of a problem.
2. Debate is defined as a formal contest of argument in which two opposing
teams defend and attack a given proposition
a. If pro-con are used it can turn a debate away from intellectual critical
thinking into a game of winners and losers
3. Explicit- directly stated argument: president’s speech; Implicit- indirectly
stated argument: music lyrics
4. Argument requires a reason, and support to back up what you are saying.