Hello all of my 310 Academic Writing friends!

In case you missed it, the reading this week explored setting up and defending good arguments, structuring and proofing a finished piece or writing, and the intentional direction of our writing when addressing the big questions: “who cares?” and “So What?” in our work.

To touch on the third topic a little bit; when ever we decide to write about a topic it should be a discussion and when engaging in any discussion we should be asking: “who is reading this?” and are we setting up our readers to connect with it? The text does a very good job of showing written examples of how to address the “Who Cares?” concern. 

To sum it up: the writing should make an argument and then back it up with findings and in so doing the reading recommends addressing your intended audience directly or in a round-about way by comparing them to old methods of thought until your argument surfaced.  Finally, If it wasn’t enticing or obvious enough – the first step can also be enhanced by also addressing a larger concern as to acknowledge a potential reader that isn’t directly affected by your initial statements. This is the “so what?” portion of the reading. These two complimentary angles to our arguments can be a handy tool to intrigue our audience.

 Along side these two very important questions we should be asking when making an argument about something, we should also be backing up these questions with our personal analysis, context, stance and propter rhetoric.

When these literary tools are applied towards our sections of our writing a over all blue print must be sketched-out and constructed.

All and all I think that those things will help us all with our final papers and has been some of the best insight thus far. 

Thoughts,

-Kyran