English 101

Writing Strategies

The following pages are overviews of strategies, suggestions, concepts, and other facets of the writing process that we have discussed in class or you have read about in your Student's Guide. Many of the entries here will have been contributed directly by you.  Review and utilize these entries as resources to help you with your writing this semester and in the future.

• What is Ethos? Pathos? [Mariah Bowers] Logos? [Andrew Knych and Sonya Huh]
• How does a writer use details to show their point--class discussion on "A Hanging"[Dolores Galaz]
• What do I need to know about audience and tone?
• Audience explanation
• An exercise in audience analysis
• How you defined "rhetorical analysis"? [Mike Graves, Courtney Kappes]
• Some other sources on Rhetorical Analysis (sites on the web).
• Why you thought Rhetorical Analysis might be important.
• What will I be doing in the midterm? What did we go over in class about the midterm? [Courtney Kappes]
• More info on Annotated Bibliography from class [Audrey Deanda]
• How is an analysis of a text different from analysis of an issue?