Week 6 · Readings & resources

Week 6 — Readings & Resources

English Composition Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 6 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 64–78 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more practice, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (17–20 min total)

① How does this text persuade? Rhetorical analysis and the appeals

Chapter 6, Section “The four appeals: meet a model you can hold in one hand” · Session 1, Segment 1, “The three jobs and the four appeals” · Remember: analysis explains how a text works on its audience, and your own agreement waits for a separate response.

Rhetorical Analysis and Transfer — Study Hall — a clear case that rhetorical analysis comes down to asking questions about context, purpose, strategy, and audience, and that the habit carries into every kind of message you meet. This builds on Week 2's work with keeping a summary of a text apart from your response to it. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
Ethos Pathos Logos — Alexander Lyon Communication Coach — a short introduction to the three appeals that come down from Aristotle's Rhetoric, told from a speaker's side: credibility, the audience's emotions, and a sound argument supported by evidence. Kairos, the fourth appeal, gets its own video in the next group. (video, 4 min) (captions: creator)
Pathos, Logos and Ethos — Writing Center Writing Resources — definitions of the three appeals, a sample paragraph with each appeal marked, and a list of questions for spotting each one in a text. Try naming the appeal in each marked sentence before you read the label. Use it while working through the Week-6 module overview. (reading, 6–9 min)

② Why does the moment matter? Kairos and the occasion

Chapter 6, Section “Read a real text for its craft: King's speech and its occasion” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Kairos and the occasion” · Remember: kairos is what the timing and the place do to an audience, not only the date a text appeared.

What Is Kairos? — Read, Write, and Cite — a short explanation of kairos as the appeal to context and timing: using the time and the place to reach an audience. Keep the chapter's test in mind: timing is not the same as feeling. (video, 3 min) (captions: automatic)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — National Park Service — the story of the gathering where the speech was delivered: how the march was planned, what its organizers demanded, and who stood on the memorial steps. Read it for the context question, then ask what that occasion added to the words. (reading, 5–8 min)

③ How do the devices work, and how do I write about them?

Chapter 6, Section “Build the analytical paragraph: claim, evidence, effect” · Session 2, Segment 3, “Devices and the analytical paragraph” · Remember: name the move, quote a few exact words, and spend your sentences on the effect.

Poetic Devices Explained: ANAPHORA — Oxford Comma — anaphora defined, then traced through famous poems, essays, and speeches, with attention to what the repetition does to a reader or listener. (video, 6 min) (captions: automatic)
Antithesis: Parallel Opposites — Writing with Andrew — how setting two opposed ideas in the same grammatical shape makes the contrast land, which is why antithesis and parallelism so often travel together. (video, 5 min) (captions: automatic)
Anaphora — Silva Rhetoricae — a compact reference entry on anaphora with its definition, an example from a play, and links to related figures of repetition. Read the definition and the example, and skip the related-figures links unless you are curious. (reading, 2–4 min)
How to Write about Rhetorical Appeals — Coach Hall Writes — how to write about logos, ethos, and pathos in a rhetorical analysis essay. As you watch, hold each tip to the chapter's rule: naming an appeal is only a label until you explain its effect. Stop before any advice on building an argument of your own; next week takes that up. (video, 10 min) (captions: automatic)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

"I Have a Dream" speech, in its entirety — NPR — the archived transcript every quotation this week is copied from; read the whole speech, and use your browser's Find command to check any fragment you plan to quote. (reading, 12–18 min)

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