NOTES ON YOUR PROMISING RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PAPERS

1. NOTES ON YOUR PROMISING RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PAPERS

2. Using the word ‘quote’. • Try not to use it! • Instead, state the action the writer takes in writing. • FOR EXAMPLE, “Einstein asserts…” “Einstein concedes…” “Einstein appears to lose his thread when he writes…” “Einstein wonders…” “Einstein concludes…” • This shows that you understand what an author is doing.

3. Hyphenated and Unhyphenated Expressions in English • Hyphenate a compound adjective – that is, an adjective you create using a noun and a verb (participial). World-renouned. Award-winning. Thought-provoking. • Observe the spellings of unhyphenated words: e.g., counterargument, straightforward, overriding.

4. P.B. abbreviations • N.a.S. (not a sentence) • l.c. (lower case) • Discuss the idea of dotted lines: suggestions for concision!

5. Items in a series • Noun, noun, and noun. • Noun phrase, noun phrase, and noun phrase. • But… • Adjective, adjective and adjective.

6. The possessive form of words that end in ‘s’ in their singular form. • For contemporary words, including names: form the plural by adding ‘s. Thus, the Jones’s back yard… Phyllis’s letter… the Royals’s winning score. • For ancient words – i.e., Greek or Latin words – ending in ‘s’, form the possessive by simply adding the apostrophe. Socrates’ back yard.

7. Let’s talk about the word ‘naïve’. • A.E. writes about people who are “more ‘naïve” to what?