Topic - Discourse community of latin dancers.
Write a paper to me (instructor) and your classmates about a time when you successfully joined a discourse community. Show us how you learned to make ethos appeals (i.e., establish and draw on your credibility), logos appeals (i.e., draw on factual knowledge and ways of reasoning), and pathos appeals (i.e., draw on the values and emotions of other members) that were specific to the community.
Invention (i.e., discovering what you're going to say in this paper)
1. Your audience for this paper (your classmates and I) will want to know the main point of your paper right off the bat, so, after deciding what discourse community you want to write about, come up with aclaim FYW, p. 4)that you were successful in joining that community.
2. It's not enough just to make a claimyour audience will expect you to Proveit. Thus, you need to explain whyyour claim is valid by supporting it with reasons (FYW, p. 4). Your reasons should state that you mastered ethos, logos, and pathos appeals that were specific to this particular community
3. Even after you've made a claim and supported it with reasons, your audience still won't be satisfied. Readers will expect you to provide evidence (FYW, p. 4) that you really did master ethos, logos, and pathos appeals specific to your discourse community.
Where will you find evidence for this paper? You won't find it in the library or on the internet because it must come from you! Reflect deeply on your own experiences. Come up with specific examples and significant anecdotes that will prove to your audience that, indeed, you learned to make successful ethos, logos, and pathos appeals to other members of the community.
- Includes a snappy title that catches the reader's attention and indicates the topic and argument.
- Identifies a particular discourse community appropriate to the assignment.
- Explains how the essay contributes to the class conversation about rhetoric and discourse communities.
- Includes a contestable, specific, detailed claim that the author successfully joined the selected discourse community.
- Provides at least three well
- developed reasons that the author mastered ethos, pathos, and logos appeals specific to the selected community.
- Answers the "so what" and "who cares" questions by explaining why the argument is significant and to whom.
- Supports reasons with carefully selected, well
- developed examples and anecdotes from her/his experience.
- Anticipates counterarguments, considers them carefully, and responds to them fairly, conceding where others are right.
- Comes across as a credible writer, and appeals to the values and emotions of the audience.
- Develops a seamless, coherent, and wellorganized argument.
- Sentences arelively, engaging, and relatively error free.
- Essay is 4 pages in MLA style (no Works Cited necessary) in 12pt. Times New Roman font with 1-inch margins.