1.What were your reading purposes of this text? And what were your attitudes? Can you tell how these two factors affected your writing Q&R 5?

To show the reader ways of making a good argument without summarizing sources. We realized that the techniques we usually use to create an argument are wrong because they don’t create a genuine argument, its more summarizing and paraphrasing. This article presented ways of using sources differently. We still use the sources but put more originality into the response.

2. What is original argument? How did you come up with a question every time you write a Q&R? How did you formulate your response? Do you see your responses as original arguments? Why?

An original argument is a genuine idea, the writer’s own opinion. The question comes from what you do not understand or are curious to know. You have to go back and reread the article and formulate what you think is the response to the question. Yes because it is your own opinion.

3. What is “writer-based prose”? Examples?

It is a writing in which you express your own ideas and thoughts without worrying about what the audience thinks. Examples: journals, advertising.

4. What is rhetorical situation? What includes in a typical rhetorical situation? What is the significance of each angle in the rhetorical situation triangle? What does a focus on a particular point of the triangle tell you?

It is a communicative situation that includes the speaker/writer (encoder), an audience (decoder), and a topic (reality). Every angle is so important but it depends on the purpose of the writer. It tells you whether it is the encoder, decoder, or reality.

5. What are the differences between facts and opinions?

A fact is a claim that people will accept as being true but they do not ask for a proof. An opinion is a claim that people need proof to accept.

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