ENGL 101 Chapter pg33-43: WHH pg 33-43
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Getting ideas into a first draft: get ideas down quickly, identify rhetorical opportunity and thesis > write down main points with supporting info. Drafting well-developed paragraphs: 1) develop a paragraph with details, 2) develop paragraph with examples. Examples illustrate an idea with info that can come from different times and places. Employing rhetorical methods of development: rhetorical methods- approaches to writing that help you address and resolve carious types of rhetorical opportunities. Make sense of a person, place, or event. Chronological order- order in which things occur: description. Should align with your rhetorical opportunity and audience. Explaining how something is done or made: cause and consequence analysis. Contributory causes- add to but do not directly cause an event or situation. Secondary consequence- less important than the primary consequence: comparison and contrast. Contrast- points out differences: classi cation and division. Classi cation- understand or explain something by establishing how it ts within a category or group.
