Class Notes 

• 3 reasons to write 

  • Entertain 

  • Inform

  • Persuade 

• Purpose of these 5 scenes is to inform people of where were from and how that makes us who we are.

• Genres

  • I think most of them are just an autobiography in a paper from, but I think I could change at leas the one about MN into a poem

  • I also think I could add pictures of my family, and/or a picture or video from Larkin 

 

• Inductive reasoning vs deductive reasoning 

  • Inductive

    • I dont know who did the murder so im going to look at all the evdence to form the conclusion 

  • Deductive

    • Start with a big idea like I love my family 

    • Then look for evidence to support it​

 

• Rhetorical appeals 

  • Pathos

    • Emotion 

    • Connecting to the reader 

  • Ethos

    • Credibility

    • Research behind it 

    • Personality by way of credibility 

    • Person brand  

  • Logos 

    • Logic 

 

• Sources 

  • Scholarly sources

    • Not newspaper or magazines 

  • Formal source 

    • A newspaper or established magazine 

  • Informal source 

    • Blogs, reddit, and twitter 

  • Local 

    • Interviews 

 

• Elevator pitch 

  • Who are you

  • A little background 

  • Extra context 

  • Make connection 

  • Ask 

  • Close out