RECORD REACTIONS TO THESE FOUR PIECES, USING THE STEPS BELOW:
1. Annotate each piece, considering rhetorical devices and the rhetorical triangle.
2. For EACH piece, record the author's purpose, identifying a claim and supports for this claim.
3. Record appeals that you see this author using, and the effectiveness of these appeals.
4. Also, consider counter arguments to this author's claim.
*These readings, annotations, and recorded reactions will be due by Monday, 4/21.
"Our Vanishing Night" by Verlyn Klinkenborg (2008)
Excerpt from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
"Nature" essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849)
"Seeing" excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)--read first two pages only
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