This is a Discussion

After you have read the assigned readings, Brent Staples’s “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space” and Nora Ephron’s “The Boston Photographs,” you have read the Writing to Argue Background reading at mywritinglab, and reviewed the background argumentative information at the web link “logos, ethos, pathos,” you need to respond on the discussion board to these argumentative works. The link is posted on the Canvas homepage. These readings are "argumentative" examples, so the discussion will revolve around each author’s use of argumentative strategies.  

All students should consider the author’s use of logos,ethos, and pathos . In other words, students need to post good examples of one or more of these argumentative appeals. Please click on the Logos, Ethos, and Pathos web link to read the necessary background related to argumentative strategies. [I have posted this link on the Canvas homepage.] Then use this information to post examples of these argumentative appeals on this discussion board.

Identify the argumentative appeal and use a direct quote from the story to support your analysis in a short paragraph (approx. 8-12 sentences). Type the argumentative appeal (logos, ethos, or pathos) you have chosen on the top line, then skip a space, and then type out the paragraph with the direct quote in the large box on the screen. You will be required to post a body paragraph for EACH of the argumentative stories (one full body paragraph based on the Staples reading and one full body paragraph on the Ephron reading).

Please post one response to EACH story in paragraph format, and then respond to two other student postings by midnight on Monday, 11/26/18. Student 'responses' need to be 2-3 sentences each and should further the discussion. Do not write responses such as 'Good job' or 'I liked your posting'. Remember that this is discussion of the story and should reflect careful thought about both the readings and the posted ‘argumentative analysis’ paragraphs.

Please remember that you are only allowed to use your own original ideas - do not refer to or post ANY "outside" information you have read on the Internet or elsewhere, or you will receive an automatic 'F' for plagiarism. You are only allowed to use your own original ideas to analyze the works and direct quotes from the works (i.e. any material you borrow from the work needs to be in quotation marks and include a page number reference--use the pdf files for page number references--the pdf file of the Ephron work and a link to the Staples reading appear in Canvas). You also need to use the author's last name in either the signal phrase before the quote or in the parenthetical reference after the quote. Refer to the Quotes and Signal Phrases handout for rules/samples on how to properly document quotes using mla style