Unit Three Flashcards
Chapter 4
Writing a Synthesis Essay
Selection of your sources when reading them and analyzing them, will help you to incorporate them into your writing. Exploring your texts and trying to work through a selective lenses will make this process easier.
Ain’t I a Woman?
by Sojourner Truth
This piece is about how women and especially women of color are not treated equally in society. Truth states in this piece, “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place!” In this part of the test she makes her claim. Which is, women are treated as angels that need to be kept in the best condition, but women of color aren’t treated as such. Her claims are based on pathos, because of the emotion that goes along with her claim.
Synthesizing Sources is creating and forming your own opinion and position of a certain topic, drawn from others. Taking different parts of a subject and putting it together as a whole can create a new and informed viewpoint.
Tools:
Paraphrase is rewording and putting a text or passage in your own words (should only be a sentence or a few long).
Summarizing shortens or condenses an author’s work centralizing the author’s main idea (should only be a sentence or a few long).
Quotations reproduce the author’s writing word for word (should always use quotation marks).
AVOID bias (speakers position on the subject/ what the speaker gains from their position) and plagiarizing (coping an author’s original thoughts and ideas).
Chapter 4
Framing Quotations
Don’t summarize your sources
Use sources to strengthen your argument
Write a sentence or two after quotation to explain the quote
Chapter 3
Paraphrase
To paraphrase take a quote and put it into your own words but, still cite the source from where you got the quote.
Sources
Sources should enhance, not replace, your argument
What’s the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing?
Paraphrasing restates a work on the sentence level and mirrors the language of the original. Summarizing crystallizes a writers main idea.
Turkeys In The Kitchen
Dave Barry
What forms of rhetoric are primarily present in “Turkeys In The Kitchen?”
Pathos: Dave appeals to your sense of humor, mixed in with a little bit of satire.
Ethos: Dave is a nationally published newspaper columnist.
Logos: Society has “allowed” women to continue their training in the kitchen, while men are still woefully ignorant about what is happening.
Claim: Education is still a biased thing.
Evidence: Dave talks about how his wife’s “sexist” home economics training allows her to know exactly what she’s doing in the kitchen, whereas his shop training does absolutely nothing in the real world. He states: “… before Women’s Liberation,men took care of the cars, and women took care of the kitchen, whereas now that we have Women’s Liberation, men no longer feel obligated to take care of the cars.”
Synthesis
The act of putting together different parts or elements to form a new complete whole.
What is the rhetorical situation? Why?
Ethos: shows that they are credible and trustworthy
Example: “I have never been inclined toward biological explanations of gender differences in language, but I was intrigued to see Ralph Fasold bring biological phenomena to bear on the question of linguistic marking in his book The Sociolinguistics of Language.”
Rhetorical Situation of “Ain’t I a Women?” by Sojourner Truth
Purpose: is the matter of men not treating her as any other women, because she is African American. I she wonders why would her skin define who she is, and why it takes away the fact that she is a women.
Tone: questioning, and anger.
Audience: men to see what they have caused, and women to sympathize with.
Pathos: she shows her emotions through passes on men by say she works as hard as them.
Mood: what the readers feel when reading this is, she wants to be treated as a women but because of her race, men don’t treat her that way. So she does her work and works as hard as a man but she is told she can’t because she is a women.
Claim of “Ain’t I a Women?” by Sojourner Truth
Throughout the text she is finding four equal rights. Her claim is to show that a man can’t tell you what to do and who you can be. Men and women need to be both equally treated no matter what.
There is No Unmarked Woman Rhetorical Situation
Modern linguistics are used to differentiate between genders. The authors use of ethos is demonstrated with the use of the book, The Sociolinguistics of Language.
LoC Chp. 4; Using Sources to Appeal to an Audience
In this section, the author wants us to know that when using sources, we are using them to support and illustrate our own ideas.
There is No Unmarked Woman Claim
The way language is used is designed to differentiate between genders.
