JONNA GILFUS

Introduction to Unit 3 in WRT 105

Arguing in Communities

How do you understand argument?

What are your experiences with argument?

(Re)defining Argument: Academic Argument

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition…. An argument is an intellectual process …

~Monty Python,” The Argument Clinic”

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition…. An argument is an intellectual process …

~Monty Python,” The Argument Clinic”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUIA40uLlKw

How can we develop a new understanding of the possibilities

for argument?

Slow down Notice Explore objects of study See with fresh eyes Look for complicating

evidence Seek tensions in claim

ideas

Start with Start with ANALYSIS…ANALYSIS…

Argument <> Analysis

a recursive relationship

Get it done

by Tuesday

Resist the same old way of thinking about argument….

NARROW the focus

SEE PAST THE BINARIESPractice thinking about stakeholders

Invite Complexity

Do More with Less

Limit the number of sources you are using.

Read your Sources “Rhetorically”

Who Produced this?

What’s the Project?

Aims? Methods? Materials?

Think about your argument rhetorically