WEEK 9 DISCUSSION 1
For this discussion post you will be focusing on one aspect of writing an analysis; rhetocial appeals. Read the following 2 readings from Writing Matters: “How Hip-Hop Music Lost Its Way and Betrayed Its Fans,” p. 120-121 and “p. 126, the box containing the birthday cake image. Answer the prompt below:
Choose either essay and conduct your own analysis focusing on rhetorical appeals. Discuss where you can see the author appealing to logos (rational, logical claims, or evidence), ethos (where the text shows the expertise or credibility of the author or the sources), or pathos (drawing on the audience’s emotions or sympathy).
Suggested length: 200 – 250 words
Due: Post no later than 11:59PM Thursday, Week 9
Respond to two of your classmates’ posts. Monitor your own posts.
Suggested length: 100 words each response
Brent Staples in his essay “How Hip-Hop Music Lost Its Way and Betrayed Its Fans” provided an insight into the hip-hop music field that is influencing rivalry and harmful negativity. In the essay, the author appealing to logos by giving logical claims in the text that new hip-hop musicians are desperate for stardom. They can even write or sing threatening songs to the rivals that caused them to be killed later.
The author continuing its point about the deadly sides of the hip-hop music field also appealed to the ethos. The author provided the details of how rapper Curtis Jackson III, who said himself a former drug dealer, in an interview of Hot 97 raised dispute by using bad words to the rival artists. This interview influenced his rival’s mob to hold him in the street and killed him by shooting. Further, the author stated credible facts about 1990s when two big hip hop stars Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. were had a hateful rivalry over music, threatened each other, and got shot to death.
Lastly, the author appealing to pathos using drawing on the audience’s feelings to the lethal nature of the hip-hop music industry. The author said that this piece of musical art has changed into the greed of stardom and lack of self-control to even threaten or kill the rival artists
WEEK 9 JOURNAL
For this journal you will write an analysis based on the reading, “Superman and Me,” by Sherman Alexie. After completing the reading answer the questions below:
On p. 124 in Writing Matters and/or p. 13 in Language Awareness choose 2 of the points to analyze based on the assigned reading.
Use specific examples and evidence to support your claims
For example: I chose to analyze the writers main point or thesis from the reading, “Superman and Me.” I will state the thesis directly and then use evidence from the text to support my answer.
Be sure you have addressed the prompt, that you are specific, and that your entry says something worthwhile. Journal entries are informal writing, but as with all class writing, editing counts. Be sure to proofread your entry.
Suggested length: 200-300 wds.
Due: By 11:59PM Sunday of Week 9
The two points that I would analyze in the reading “Superman and Me” are the author’s main point or thesis and evidence in the text to support the author’s claim. In the article, the author claimed that besides being from Indian speaking middle-class and challenging background in the USA, he developed an interest in reading and discovered a method to read the books. For example, the author took a book of his father to read but found the words were foreign to him. Then, he realized words in a fence work together to make a meaningful paragraph. This knowledge delighted him and he started understanding and reading things through this way (Alexie, 1998).
Another evidence of this claim is that once he picked up a Superman comic book that includes a story with pictures and narratives. The author was unable to read the words of narrative, but he identified the meanings of these words through the comic’s pictures. He assumed this is what Superman said, so he pretended to read the words and said them aloud. This way he learned to read (Alexie, 1998).
Further, the author provided in the text that other students from the Indian background in his class were struggled with basic reading and failed to respond non-Indian teachers. Whereas he was smart and he overcomes his such weakness by adopting habits to read while school recess, traveling, shopping, watching games, through auto-repair manuals, and other utility reading stuff (Alexie, 1998).
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