Module 2: Introduction

Unit Objectives

After you have completed this unit, you will be able to:

1. Identify themes, values, and ideas that reflect the historical period in which a literary text was written.
2. Analyze the purposes for writing in a variety of texts.
3. Identify rhetorical devices in passages, speeches, platforms, debates, and statements.
4. Analyze documents based on the rhetorical devices used.
5. Define the qualities of an arguable claim.
6. Identify arguable claims.
7. Apply the qualities of an arguable claim to writing a persuasive thesis.
8. Identify the types of evidence for supporting an arguable claim.
9. Analyze types of evidence in passages, ads, and/or speeches.
10. Apply types of evidence to supporting an arguable claim.
11. Define the three types of appeals.
12. Identify the three types of appeals in passages, ads, and/or speeches.
13. Apply the three types of appeals to supporting an arguable claim.
14. Define the concept of "refutation".
15. Identify refutation in persuasive passages.
16. Apply the concept of refutation to persuasive writing.
17. Define the concept of "logical fallacy".
18. Identify logical fallacies in passages, ads, or speeches.
19. Describe the characteristics of identifiable logical fallacies.
20. Students analyze the effect of logical fallacies in passages, ads, and speeches.