Strategies that Strategies that Strategies that Strategies that Strategies that support support support claim/arg support claim/arg support claim/arg Thompson: Argument Map Exercise You could provide students with some of the claims below, and have them fill in the rest. Project Argument The vast increase in public writing inspired by the Internet is an important, new, beneficial change for individuals and for society. It has profound cognitive, cultural, and political implications. Claim Claim The new forms of The increase in The increase in The new forms of Digital media are digital writing, writing we see writing we see digital writing, creating a golden particularly their with digital with digital particularly their age of literacy. character, technologies is technologies is character, Today’s students “public” “public” involve writing for good because good because are highly beneficial write far more than an audience, and writing can help this can advance because they in the past, are this significantly clarify our democracy and expand connections much better improves writing thinking, civil society, and improve the writers, and and thinking (54). generate ideas especially in socials network that resemble students and improve support research of rhetoric from memory. (51) countries (page (the of hundreds of years “law 58) multiples.”) ago. Evidence for Evidence for Evidence for Evidence for Claim Evidence for Claim Claim Claim Strategies that Strategies that Strategies that Strategies that Strategies that support support support support support Matt’s Summary & Notes on Thompson Attached is my rough/preliminary map of Thompson from the abridged section 46-61. There seems to be a lot of possibilities with the Thompson piece to discuss different types of evidence, explicit claims, and implicit claims. And, of course, how these work together. Matt.
Strategies that support Strategies that support Strategies that support claim/arg Strategies that support claim/arg Strategies that support claim/arg Thompson: Argument Map Exercise You could provide students with some of the claims below, and have them fill in the rest. Project Argument The vast increase in public writing inspired by the Internet is an important, new, beneficial change for individuals and for society. It has profound cognitive, cultural, and political implications. Claim Claim The new forms of digital writing, particularly their “public” character, involve writing for an audience, and this significantly improves writing and thinking (54). The increase in writing we see with digital technologies is good because writing can help clarify our thinking, generate ideas and improve memory. (51) The increase in writing we see with digital technologies is good because this can advance democracy and civil society, especially in countries (page 58) The new forms of digital writing, particularly their “public” character, are highly beneficial because they expand connections and improve the socials network that support research (the “law of multiples.”) Digital media are creating a golden age of literacy. Today’s students write far more than in the past, are much better writers, and resemble students of rhetoric from hundreds of years ago. Evidence for Claim Evidence for Claim Evidence for Evidence for Claim Evidence for Claim Strategies that support Strategies that support Strategies that support Strategies that support Strategies that support Matt’s Summary & Notes on Thompson Attached is my rough/preliminary map of Thompson from the abridged section 46-61. There seems to be a lot of possibilities with the Thompson piece to discuss different types of evidence, explicit claims, and implicit claims. And, of course, how these work together. Matt.
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