Writing Over-Simplified
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The document outlines the rhetorical triangle of logos, ethos, and pathos as essential components in effective writing. It emphasizes the importance of thorough preparation, drafting, and editing to ensure clarity and engagement with the audience. Additionally, it suggests utilizing feedback from others and addressing mechanical aspects like spelling and grammar in the final draft.
Writing Over-Simplified
- 1. Rhetorical Triangle Logos – information, facts, data – CONTENT Ethos – credibility (yours and that of your sources) – YOU Pathos – connection with the audience – AUDIENCE Combine all three to be as effective as you can be Logos Ethos Pathos
- 2. Preparing to Write Thesis Sources Outline This, the idea you're writing about, is probably in your head already. Collect enough sources to cover your thesis, and any major opposing ideas. Do something to organize your thoughts, if the thing you're writing is longer than a page.
- 3. The First Draft Set yourself apart Plan on editing Look for the hooks Find a nice comfortable place, something to drink, no distractions, and enough time to meet a goal. Nobody gets exactly what they want on the first try – that's why there are drafts! If you follow the outline you made, that'll help. You want something at least at the beginning and end to grab readers. A question, a quote, a statement to provoke.
- 4. The First Draft (more) Between the beginning and the end What you check for Anticipate and answer questions Look at other points of view Balance the corners of the Rhetorical Triangle Did you follow the outline? Did you use your sources properly? Is your thesis clearly in the reader's mind?
- 5. Editing Any questions unanswered? Any other sources? Other pairs of eyes The nuts and bolts Make room in the next draft to answer them. Make room in the next draft to include them. Have others look at your draft, because you're too close to it. When all else is done, then address spelling and grammar.