The 11th grade AP classroom

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The 11th grade AP classroom

• Or, What have I gotten myself into?

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Rhetoric and Composition

• First semester of first year of English in
  college
• Focus is on writing
• The purpose is to prepare the student for all
  future university level courses
• Second semester in college is literature
• And easier, generally speaking

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Composition

• There are different forms of writing
• Persuasion
• Expository
• Narrative
• Descriptive
• and when you add in purpose and audience, the
  combinations are endless
• Youll probably feel like the writing in this
  class is endless

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Rhetoric

• Art of oratory
• The art of speaking or writing well
• The study of the rules of composition
• Communication as a means of persuasion
• There is a negative connotation that rhetoric is
  empty, useless, although pretty sounding, speech

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Persuasion

• to advise thoroughly
• To move a persons beliefs from one position to
  another, or the attempt thereof
• Can happen through speech, writing, or action
• The negative connotation here is that some people
  consider persuasion as simply one person pushing
  his beliefs onto another

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Argumentation

• Discourse intended to persuade
• A coherent series of statements leading from a
  premise to a conclusion
• A reason given in proof or rebuttal
• The negative connotation here should be easy
  argumentation is fighting or quarrelling

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Why am I teaching negativity?

• Rhetoric, argumentation, and persuasion are not
  negative ideas and should not be stereotypically
  rebuked as such.
• Youll learn that these are simply terms in
  normal, healthy, productive speech and writing

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btw

• Do you know the difference between these
• Denotation
• Connotation

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Works Cited

• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008.
• Merriam-Webster Online. 21 August 2008
  lthttp//www.merriamwebster.com
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