Assignment #9 -- They say

We've been talking about how writing a paper for a class (a skill that seeks to prepare you to argue your ideas in the world beyond school) is a lot like constructing a building out of concrete . Before you arrange the blocks you need to make sure that you are working with sound material blocks — chips, cracks, or fallacies. Then you need to arrange them with pathos, ethos, logos, and sophia (wisdom).

Now we're at the point where we are going to start arranging the blocks. We're also at the point in the semester where you'll need to start reading a lot more. Your next assignment is to read and digest everything in the textbook They Say, I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein (fifth edition, 2021) from the beginning until page 56. This is actually more than 56 pages because I want you to start with the two prefaces and then move into the Introduction. This means that I want you to read pages x-56. It's a lot to read but I'll give you a few extra days. (Some of you figured out early on that we'd eventually be reading the whole textbook and you've already read it once or twice. This will be more of a review for you.)

Once you have completed the reading I want you to do exercise 1 on pages 28-29. Except, choose only two of the examples from a.-e. on the top of page 29. Provide two of the arguments of your choosing, from the list, with counterviews. You can send those two counterviews to me in an email at bboydston@piu.edu or as a shared Google Doc. This assignment is worth 75 points.