03.13 - Authorial Subjectivity

In today's class we returned to the work we started yesterday looking at how author's can portray their own subjective perspectives in non-fiction works. To help people in this process, I handed out a summary sheet reviewing the appeals, rhetorical devices, and logical fallacies that can come up in a work as an author reports on an event. 

We did a short activity in which each person wrote an argument using an appeal and a device or fallacy and other people listened to the argument to identify which techniques were in play. 

Everyone then had the rest of the period to work on this activity (see handouts below). I continued to meet with people about their reflection goal.

Handouts:

Rhetoric Summary Sheet

Authorial Subjectivity Assignment

Article: Scalia's Embarrassing Question (used with subjectivity assignment)

Homework:

Read to page 97 in Into the Wild for Tuesday.
Into the Wild Reading Schedule

Begin work on your third log for Into the Wild for Monday.
Into the Wild Reading Logs