duscussion on Kantz

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?
Our purpose was to learn and understand how to properly use textual sources persuasively. It made us reflect on how we read and use resources to write our articles. They affected because it changed how we perceive the correct way to read and incorporate other writers information.

2. What is the 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?
The original argument is that few writers write theory-based explanations, and how to teach students to help write more persuasively. Read the content and form a question based on the biggest points in the article to answer elaborately. We see our responses as original arguments because it is based on your opinion.

3. What is “writer-based prose”? Examples?
“Writer-based prose is the tendency to impress by being more formal as a way to acquire authority and power believing this approves credibility.” In function, Writer-Based Prose is a verbal expression written by a writer to himself and for himself.

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 focus on a particular point of the triangle tell you?
The context of a rhetorical act, made of an issue, and an audience. It all contributes to how to rhetorical situation works. Focusing on a certain point, puts more emphasis on what you want to specify; either word author or audience.

5. What are the differences between facts and opinions?
The difference between a fact and opinion is that a fact is something that you can prove is true, and an opinion is one’s own thought.

Composed by: Priscilla Perez, Krizia Velez, Joshua Villarreal