Week 5: Making an Argument

📖 Reading

• Read OTC Chapter 5.1 – Process
• Read OTC Chapter 5.2 – Audience Analysis
• Read OTC Chapter 5.4 – Articulating Technical Information
• Read ETC Backpacks V. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis, focusing primarily on the basic components of rhetorical analysis

🎯 Check your understanding

• Reading Quiz Week 5

🥣 Prepare for class

• By Wednesday night: Clone the business report template in Github classroom (link is in the assignment on Canvas)

☕ Monday

• Slides
  • Discuss business report & assign report topics
  • Basic components of argument and rhetoric in scientific writing

🐪 Wednesday

• In class activity: Arguments in scientific and technical writing
  • Slides

🏋️ Practice your skills

• Analyze the rhetorical decisions and arguments in your research article (1 pg summary)

• Start planning business report – locate data sets to support your analysis