analyzing persuasive text can they change your mind?
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What is persuasive text?
•Text (or media sources) in which the authors share their perspectives in order to influence the attitudes or actions of others.
•BIG QUESTION:▫How does an author influence the attitude
and/or actions of others through persuasive text?
Presidential nominees…
•Obama 2012
•Romney 2012
Aphorism-
•A concise statement of a general truth or principle. ▫Aphorisms are sayings that have truth in
them: Example: “A penny saved is a penny earned.” “Give your brain as much attention as you do
your hair and you’ll be a thousand times better off”
Epigraph-
•A quotation at the beginning of a literary work to introduce the theme. ▫Epigraphs introduce the main idea of the
speech or literary work to an audience. Example: “I meant what I said, and I said
what I meant …An elephant’s faithful – one hundred per cent!”-Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg. Epigraph from Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Terms to Evaluate Persuasive Text•Factual claim (FACT) – A statement that
claims truth and contains no value language.
•Assertion – An opinion or declaration stated with conviction.
•Opinion – A personal view or belief based on emotions or interpretation of facts.
Rhetorical fallacy:•An Argument that is not sound but may
still be convincing.▫Loaded term-a term or phrase that has
strong emotional overtones and that is meant to evoke strong reactions beyond the specific meaning.
▫Caricature-a distortion of characteristics or defects of a person or thing, either in picture or in words.
▫Leading question-a question worded to suggest the desired response.
Logical Fallacy:
•Depends on faulty logic.▫False assumptions-flawed ideas that
emerge when a reader pieces information together solely by inference and fails to consider other possible interpretations.
▫Incorrect premise-a faulty idea that is used as the foundation of an argument.
False Assumptions:
•A woman leaves home and makes three left turns. She returns home again. On the way she passes two women wearing masks.
•Who were the two women?
False Assumption cont’d:•Answer: The two women were the catcher
and the umpire. •False assumption: That the woman was
walking down the street. She is on a baseball field.
Now let’s re-watch or campaign videos and look for examples of persuasive text.
•Obama 2012
•Romney 2012