The titles are crafted to provoke a confused but intrigued response:“What does the author mean by that?” “Is there something I don’t know?”Bold claims can usually command attention
These kind of titles grab your attention for a quick glance, but usually, (personally) the interest fizzles within the first couple paragraphs
I believe that this isan important test of the separation of church and state as we may see inour lifetime—as important a test—and it is critically important that weget it right”
i believe the word "test" add urgency to this as well. I feel like it implies to the audience that there's a right and wrong answer.
You might think of this rhetorical strategyas “reframing” an issue.
sometimes a different perspective can change a lot
Table 1
I think this table method could be really useful in formatting large arguments
What pressing, essential, or surprising issue may I, as a writer, sharewith my readers
this is what I think of as the meat of different persuading papers. I want to include issues and information that are not usually seen by the public eye, bringing light and attention to them. I believe these kind of shock value issues bring in a lot of interest and can incite different emotions in the reader
Once youbegin to consider your persona—and your reader’s persona—you can startto form an opinion about why your paper would be important.
I actually really like this and am not sure why I havent thought of this sort of "writing roleplay" before. It makes a lot of sense to make a character to write through for certain works.
“exigency through the audience’s agenda or concerns,”which involves igniting a spark of interest between your own thesis andyour reader’s interests.
take the audience's preexisting passion for something, and correlate it with the information you're trying to share to spark interest.
Furthermore, if yourtopic is chosen for you, then it’s entirely possible you don’t think that it’san absolutely essential or even pressing subject matter
the more passion you have in something, the more interesting it becomes to you. Unless you can convince others to share that interest, they will not share the same passion
It’s not enough to prove one’s argument with irrefutable logic andoverwhelming evidence;
you can shove information and facts in peoples face forever and get no where, its not until you have someones attention that they will really understand and absorb that information
exigency
All segregationstatutes are unjust because segregation distort the soul and damages the personality.
because its dehumanizing and demeaning.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
this makes me think of the shocking experiment. The way people will listen to authority and perform actions that make them uncomfortable just because someone who seems to have power says they should. You should make the moral choice to rebel when you know something doesnt feel right, when a law is not there for the good of all.
when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and yourspeech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to thepublic amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in hereyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds ofinferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personalityby developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answerfor a five-year-old son who is asking: “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?”;
These children are growing up having to live by rules that they dont understand, building resentment and changing how they act subconsciously.
This “Wait” has almost always meant ’Never.”
being pushed to the side over and over, offering changes to save face but those changes never become reality.
bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather thandialogue
i love the wording of this. The idea of living in your own story, no input from anyone that might change the narrative you're trying to construct.
groups tend to bemore immoral than individuals
groups are more dangerous because they can create a hive-mind. A group people that share the same values and beliefs will share them with other people that encourage this.
“Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a betterpath?” You are quite right in calling, for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action.Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a co mmunitywhi ch has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize theissue that it can no longer be ignored.
negotiations would be the preferred option, but people will ignore and issue until they are forced to confront it. By having these visible demonstrations he is making people see them, making them notice the issue, forcing confrontation.
It is unfortunate thatdemonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city’s whitepower structure left the Negro community with no alternative.
People are upset because of these demonstrations and protests. But why would people protest unless they had something to protest about?
Injustice anywhere is a threat tojustice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment ofdestiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
He seems to strongly believe in the theory that all people, all of our destiny is tied together.
Reading others’ annotations can help you see more in the text than youmight find on your own.
I have sat there many times thinking I’ve pulled out all meaning out of a piece and then I will read of hear someone else’s opinion and realize there is a whole perspective I didn’t see and it opens up a lot of new information.
Whether written into the margins of texts, integratedinto the print, or digitally superimposed, in what contexts have you encoun-tered annotations written by another person? In what ways have you sharedyour annotations with other readers?
I have been in numerous writing classes where we would write and swap and annotate each others work. This got me quite familiar with the annotation process and with what worked for me. I’ve also had many assignments like this one that was just annotating articles or giving feedback.
You may have used digital annotation tools. But, if you’re likemany of my students, annotation might have been a reading strategy youpracticed alone
I believe actual paper and pen annotating is more beneficial to what I want out of my annotations. I like being able to highlight and draw and write down my thoughts to actually get them to stick when I’m trying to memorize or understand an article.
Ramona’s glasses—child’sview, scratched.”
I’m inspired by how we don’t know what they were thinking when they wrote this. They had a whole train of thoughts that were able to be rounded out into these words and hopefully invite that entire train of thinking back the next time you read it.
Students are often encouraged to annotate while reading.1
I can’t remember a writing/reading class that didn’t tell me to annotate and “talk” to the text. It’s a skill that should be pretty well developed after a couple classes. I find it pretty helpful with memorizing what I read and the key points I took away from it.