Moffitt’s English Blog

The purpose of this post is to relate the discussion of argumentation in Ch. 1 of Everything’s an Argument to The World is Flat. To do so, your post must include the following:

1. Statement of argument made by Friedman. Unlike the dialectical journal entries, you are not required to quote directly. You are encouraged to summarize or paraphrase.

2. A paragraph discussing, in detail, how to read the argument. Include at least one sentence about the following terms in your response.

• Purpose (Inform, Convince, Explore, Make Decisions, Meditate or Pray
• Occasion (Past, Present, or Future)
• Kind (Fact, Definition, Evaluation, Proposal) You may want to address some of the stasis questions about the argument before you determine its kind.
• Intended Audience
• Audience Appeals (Emotional, Ethical, and/or Logical)
• Context (Historical, Social, etc.)

You must submit your post by the beginning of class on Friday, September 4.

The purpose of this post is to relate the discussion of argumentation in Ch. 1 of Everything’s an Argument to Freakonomics. To do so, your post must include the following:

1. Statement of argument made by Levitt and Dubner. Unlike the dialectical journal entries, you are not required to quote directly. You are encouraged to summarize or paraphrase.

2. A paragraph discussing, in detail, how to read the argument. Include at least one sentence about the following terms in your response.

• Purpose (Inform, Convince, Explore, Make Decisions, Meditate or Pray
• Occasion (Past, Present, or Future)
• Kind (Fact, Definition, Evaluation, Proposal) You may want to address some of the stasis questions about the argument before you determine its kind.
• Intended Audience
• Audience Appeals (Emotional, Ethical, and/or Logical)
• Context (Historical, Social, etc.)

You must submit your post by the beginning of class on Friday, September 4.

The purpose of this post is to relate the discussion of argumentation in Ch. 1 of Everything’s an Argument to The Canon. To do so, your post must include the following:

1. Statement of argument made by Angier. Unlike the dialectical journal entries, you are not required to quote directly. You are encouraged to summarize or paraphrase.

2. A paragraph discussing, in detail, how to read the argument. Include at least one sentence about the following terms in your response.

• Purpose (Inform, Convince, Explore, Make Decisions, Meditate or Pray
• Occasion (Past, Present, or Future)
• Kind (Fact, Definition, Evaluation, Proposal) You may want to address some of the stasis questions about the argument before you determine its kind.
• Intended Audience
• Audience Appeals (Emotional, Ethical, and/or Logical)
• Context (Historical, Social, etc.)

You must submit your post by the beginning of class on Friday, September 4.

The purpose of this post is to relate the discussion of argumentation in Ch. 1 of Everything’s an Argument to Blink. To do so, your post must include the following:

1. Statement of argument made by your Gladwell. Unlike the dialectical journal entries, you are not required to quote directly. You are encouraged to summarize or paraphrase.

2. A paragraph discussing, in detail, how to read the argument. Include at least one sentence about the following terms in your response.

• Purpose (Inform, Convince, Explore, Make Decisions, Meditate or Pray
• Occasion (Past, Present, or Future)
• Kind (Fact, Definition, Evaluation, Proposal) You may want to address some of the stasis questions about the argument before you determine its kind.
• Intended Audience
• Audience Appeals (Emotional, Ethical, and/or Logical)
• Context (Historical, Social, etc.)

You must submit your post by the beginning of class on Friday, September 4.

Dialectical Journal Post

One of the writing assignments for APLAC this year will be the completion of regular dialectical or reader-response journals.

A dialectical journal involves citing and meaningfully reacting to a literary passage. Those of you who annotated your summer readings may have already practiced this type of analysis. You should refer to the handout in the locker area of the class site for further directions and examples. It is from the Southern Texas Independent School District and is creatively entitled dialectical-journal-handout.

For this second post, complete a dialectical journal entry for The World is Flat. Feel free to abbreviate large quotations.

Dialectical Journal Post

One of the writing assignments for APLAC this year will be the completion of regular dialectical or reader-response journals.

A dialectical journal involves citing and meaningfully reacting to a literary passage. Those of you who annotated your summer readings may have already practiced this type of analysis. You should refer to the handout in the locker area of the class site for further directions and examples. It is from the Southern Texas Independent School District and is creatively entitled dialectical-journal-handout.

For this second post, complete a dialectical journal entry for Freakonomics. Feel free to abbreviate large quotations.

Dialectical Journal Post

One of the writing assignments for APLAC this year will be the completion of regular dialectical or reader-response journals.

A dialectical journal involves citing and meaningfully reacting to a literary passage. Those of you who annotated your summer readings may have already practiced this type of analysis. You should refer to the handout in the locker area of the class site for further directions and examples. It is from the Southern Texas Independent School District and is creatively entitled dialectical-journal-handout.

For this second post, complete a dialectical journal entry for The Canon. Feel free to abbreviate large quotations.

Dialectical Journal Post

One of the writing assignments for APLAC this year will be the completion of regular dialectical or reader-response journals.

A dialectical journal involves citing and meaningfully reacting to a literary passage. Those of you who annotated your summer readings may have already practiced this type of analysis. You should refer to the handout in the locker area of the class site for further directions and examples. It is from the Southern Texas Independent School District and is creatively entitled dialectical-journal-handout.

For this second post, complete a dialectical journal entry for Blink. Feel free to abbreviate large quotations.

Thanks for sharing your first impressions of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. With a little over a week to go before we meet, I would like to use the blog to  discuss and debate some of the controversial issues in the book.

Use this post to respond to one of the following points of contention raised by Malcolm X. Please do not repeat an argument already posted on the blog. If you wish, you may respond to someone else’s criticism rather than the original idea.

• brainwashed black Christian criticism
• devil/white man metaphor
• Elijah Muhammed’s  whitening of history theory
• Malcolm’s separation vs. segregation argument
• the white Southerner vs. the northern white “liberal”
• Muslim Mosque, Inc. vs. Nation of Islam
• American Indian experience vs. African American  experience

Friedman begins his book by presenting the ten forces that flattened the world. Which of these ten forces did you find most convincing? Which one was least convincing? Why?