Focus:
• contextualizing an argument
• analyzing an argument
• examining text in terms of:
rhetorical situation (audience, occasion, purpose)
rhetorical strategies of persuasion and appeal
• providing logical reasons for how you believe the authors has used the appeals
• using logic when supporting/developing ideas
• organizing an essay
• summarizing and paraphrasing author’s views or ideas in text
• in-text citation
• documenting sources on a Works Cited page
Assignment
Many AUCians wish to be married young and to start a family. Many women will graduate and give up employment as soon as they become wives and mothers. However, with the divorce rate among the higher classes of Egypt at an all time high, many have started to question the causes of divorce and the reality of being married young in the 21st century. Read the following article and analyze it according to the appeals of logos, pathos and ethos. Write an essay with an introduction into the topic and logically divide the body of the essay into paragraphs focusing on instances of logical appeals and explanations as their use and effect on the reader.
Required readings:
• Blog about the problems of marrying young:
Attached at end of document
• Academic journal articles about teen marriages:
Dahl, G. 2010. Early teen marriage and future poverty. Demography, 47(3): 689–718. << .
Selier, Naomi. (2002). Is teen marriage a solution? Center for Law and Social Policy. << http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications_archive/files/0087.pdf >>
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