Purpose
This assignment provides an opportunity for you to read carefully in order to write an informal and thoughtful response. Practicing the skills of careful reading and response writing will help you develop creative habits of the mind. This assignment supports two of our course goals: 1) Develop strategies to read rhetorically, and 2) Develop strategies to write rhetorically.
Task
Read carefully the article Fatal Distraction Download Fatal Distractionby author Gene Weingarten. As you read, interact with the text by annotating when you find ideas to be interesting or confusing and when you have questions. These annotations should help you develop your response.
Watch and take notes over the short video Three Persuasive Appeals. (Links to an external site.)
Discuss the various ways Weingarten uses Aristotelian Appeals in his article.
Do you find his article to be interesting and persuasive? If so, why? If not, why not? Provide specific details from the article to support your response.
What can you take away from this article that might be useful in drafting your Be Interesting Project?
Format
Write your reflection using our standard guidelines:
Name, date, OPW #5 in the upper left-hand corner single spaced
Times New Roman 12 pt. font
One inch margins
Double spacing in the body of the document
Criteria
This is the link for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUfOh_CgHQ
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