Erin O’Keefe and Elizabeth “Liz” Martell
Allen Community College
Discussion
 How do we get students to participate more
substantially in the writing of their own
essay?
Pre-Writing Techniques
 Free-writing
 Tape Recorder
 Clustering
 News/Topic Exploration
 Defining Topic through
Questions
 What are successful
prewriting activities that
you use?
Building a Case
 Role-Playing activities
 Analyzing Case Studies
 “Madman on the Bridge”
 Outlines
 Informal lists
 Formal/sentence
 Difference between Persuasion and Argumentation
Reducing Pathos
 Differences between Opinion, Editorial, and News
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Article
Understanding Audience
Identifying claims
Word choice
Understanding Rhetorical Appeals through
Advertising
Example: Man avoiding treatment
Avoiding Logical Fallacies
 Most problematic:
 Argumentum ad Populum
 Authority Fallacy
 Use of Commercials –
Simpson’s Coke ad
 How do you teach fallacies?
Contact Information
Erin O’Keefe
English Instructor
[email protected]
785-654-2416 x226
Elizabeth “Liz” Martell
English Adjunct Instructor
[email protected]
620-366-0317