November 4th class

Tonight in class we were discussing claims and evidence and did an activity where the students analyzed a magazine and an advertisement from the magazine. They really did a good job of listing the claim and the evidence used by the product advertisement to sell the product to the audience of this magazine. The reason why we did this activity is that the students will be writing argument essays for the rest of the semester and they need to see evidence of how claims are made and supported. We focused on the rhetorical triangle-pathos, ethos and logos. This type of activity always goes over well with students.