Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
ENG 111
Spring 2015
Allusion
Celebrities that have talked about writing music and how long it takes them and the
difficulties when writing this music
Personal testimony or anecdote (personal connection)
It has taken me over 3 years to write a song. Thats just one song. Not to mention all the
time I put in to recording and producing it.
Appeals to value and/or need
Value: This means the writer aims to discover what its readers value and uses
that information to help build the argument. Heres an example of how marketers
try to best understand the values of a group. Take a quick moment and look at it.
I think youll find it helpful.
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/10/24/engage-millennials-and-gen-z-appealingvalues-and-traits
Need: This means the writer aims to discover what his/her readers needs are.
And depending on the topic at hand, the writer might use the information to
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appeal to the readers spiritual needs, economic, physical, familial needs, etc.
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COUNTERARGUMENT/CONCESSION
Opposition: College is about leaving behind the assumptions, practices, and biases of adolescence. Its
about growing outward, experiencing a new realm of relationships, a new culture, a new vision of the
world.
Concession: College should, indeed, help students toward new intellectual, cultural, even psychological
horizons.
Counter: But living on campus does not necessarily promote these new intellectual behaviors. In fact, too
often living on campus promotes a kind of persistent adolescencebeing steeped in high school-like
transgression. Residential advisors function like assistant principals, keeping students in a high school
developmental stage.
Qualifier: Not all students can live at home. Many students must go awaymust leave behind a small
town and seek out higher education far from home. They must, therefore, live in dormitories and
apartments.
Counter: Still, the prevailing assumption in high school is that its simply better to go awayto enter
college life by also entering dormitory life. At the least, that prevailing assumption should be corrected.
FURTHER QUESTIONS AND POSSIBLE RESEARCH:
Could I argue that the shrinking middle class (or at least the pain put on middle class families) calls for a
change in attitude about college?
What is the dropout rate across the country? Is it higher for students who live in dorms?
Whats the success rate for students who start college while living at home?
How many students in the country attend college while living at home?
Whats the average cost of living in the dorms? Is it fair to say that dorm cost creates a big chunk of
college debt? Could I link the psychological/financial weight of college to dorm life?
What do professors think about this? Do they?
What do psychologists or sociologists say about homeabout the act of being situated in one familiar
domestic space? Is that important?
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ENG 111
Spring 2015