This summary provides an overview of assignments and deadlines for Week 9 of the CREM EWRT 2 class: HW 7 is due along with responses to Paper 3, Part 1. Paper 3, Part 2 is due Saturday, and Journal 5 is due Tuesday. Participation scores so far show a mean of 210.3 and median of 217, with most students earning a B or higher. Annotations for Paper 3 need formatting fixes and to meet requirements for credibility, usefulness, and sources. The class will discuss rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos and how to identify them in an assigned editorial. Homework for Wednesday includes readings on logical fallacies and rhetorical devices along with preparing for a NY

1. CREM EWRT 2
Day 15
THIS IS WHAT WEEK 9 LOOKS LIKE!

2. Business / Participation
HW 7 is due today (if you didn’t get it in on
time, submit it anyway for partial credit).
Paper 3, Part 2, is due Saturday morning.
(Some comments from Part 1 in a moment.)
Journal 5 is due Tuesday. More on this in a bit.
The train for Paper 4 is picking up speed. Are
you onboard? We’ll go over the assignment in
a moment.
Field trip to Tech Museum next Wed, June 13.

3. Participation Check-in
Through the end of Week 8 (does not include the
Discussion Post due this morning or HW #7).
Sum of class participation, HW, Discussion Posts
(minus two lowest), NYT quizzes (minus one
lowest).
Mean: 210.3
Median: 217
Std Dev: 25.3
Range: 154-244
IF the quarter ended today, this would be your
participation grade in the class. If you don’t like it,
you have only a few more assignments to try to
improve it. Time has almost run out.
Scores: Letter Grade (Number in the class)
231-244: A (9)
225-230: A- (2)
217-224: B+ (6)
202-216: B (6)
194-201: B- (1)
180-193: C+ (2)
170-179: C (2)
160-169: C- (3)
below 160: D (1)

4. Annotated Bibliography (Paper 3)
Formatting Issues:
◦ You need to format each source citation with a hanging indent.
◦ Correct any “all caps” titles or author names.
◦ The whole document (including the source citations and the annotation
paragraphs) should be double-spaced.
Annotations:
◦ Each annotation should have three separate paragraphs (one for each of the
three components). (This should not go longer than a page, though.)
◦ Need to specify why or how when you say “This will be useful.”
◦ What’s a potential source of credibility for the author? Academic position and
university.
Some folks have WAY too many scholarly sources (like 10) and no
magazines/newspapers.
◦ I appreciate your scholarliness, but you’ll be sorry. You don’t want (or need) to
do all that work.
◦ Need to follow the directions on the library skills worksheets (or on the Cheat
Sheet) to find newspaper and magazine articles.

5. Journal 5 and
Paper 4
WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF ASSIGNMENTS!

6. Three rhetorical appeals
ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS

7. Ethos
Credibility or character of the author
◦ honest, trustworthy, good character
◦ the Pope vs. Donald Trump.
◦ speak from a position of knowledge, your own
expertise
◦ essay on vaccines written by George Clooney
vs. Nobel-prize-winning doctor.
◦ your use of language.
◦ typos, grammatical errors. (“Dear Professor
Alonebrian”)
◦ formality. (Financial advisor who sends you an
email that says, “U up?”)

8. Pathos
Appeal to the emotions of the audience—play
on the feelings they already have.
◦ Sympathy, pity, anger, sadness, pride, FEAR.
◦ What’s the best way to elicit emotions?
◦ often uses specific stories or personal
anecdotes that try to elicit emotions.
◦ IDENTIFICATION is powerful here.
◦ Can be manipulative, but can also be very
effective.
Do scientists use this?
Do politicians?

9. Logos
Logic and reason
◦ facts and figures, statistics.
◦ good strong arguments that rely on rationality
◦ history and other types of knowledge
◦ expert opinions that are not your own count
here.

10. Which is more effective?
Well, it all depends on what you want to do…
And who your audience is!
◦ when might pathos be effective? When might it not?
◦ when might logos be effective? When might it not?
◦ when might ethos be effective? When might it not?

11. “My Family Didn’t Accept Me. Ole Miss Did.”
Read the editorial by Dylan Lewis.
Then answer these questions:
1. What is the author trying to persuade us of? What does he want his reader to do? What
specific things does he want to change about the world?
2. Find and underline three examples of ethos in this editorial.
◦ Ethos: character or credibility of the author.
3. Find and underline two examples of pathos.
◦ Pathos: appeal to the emotions of the audience (that they already have).
4. Find and underline three examples of logos.
◦ Logos: logic, reason, knowledge, expert opinions (not author’s own).

12. HW for Wednesday
Read:
◦ 1. Levitin, “Logical Fallacies”
◦ 2. Browne & Keeley, Ch. 7
Study for the NYT Evening Briefing quiz.