Thursday, January 5, 2012

How do you respond to a prompt?

Please read the following prompt, and then, in a comment, answer the questions included. *You may want to copy and paste the comments into your comment and just answer them that way. YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING THE PROMPT, YOU ARE JUST READING IT AND THEN ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS.

Prompt: "In "Speech to the Council," Jane Smith is trying to convince her audience that animal testing is cruel. In a well developed essay that uses evidence from the text, discuss how Smith uses rhetorical strategies to convince her audience."

Questions:
  1. What does the prompt want you to do when it says, "uses evidence from the text?"
  2. What are rhetorical strategies?
  3. Would it be okay to summarize the author's argument essay for the response to this prompt? Explain why or why not.
  4. What would be a rough thesis statement for a response to this prompt. *Remember, a thesis for the response to this prompt; NOT a thesis for an argument against animal testing. :-)

33 comments:

  1. 1. use facts and things you know that you got from the text.
    2. strategies that help her convince people.
    3. no cause they wont get all the detail.
    4. jane uses rhetorical strategies in her text to convince her audiance.

    nate tesmer

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  2. 1. It wants you to use facts from the text to support your argument.
    2.A rhetorical strategy is a strategy that aid you to persuade people to believe their side.
    3. NO because it is asking for what she did to convince you.
    4.Jane uses many rhetorical strategies to convince her audience to join her side.
    By Logan Schmidt

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  3. 1) this prompt wants you to quote the author in your prompt or summerize what the author says in one part.
    2)strategies that are argumentive or persuasive at nature.
    3)No i don't think so because when it asks for evidence form the text i think it means direct quotes or a summery of a small area.
    4)Jane Smith uses rhetorical startegy by say what happens to the animals, using statistics, and saying what else we can do.

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  4. 1.Use things to help you rom the texxt understand what you are saying
    2.Ways to convince people
    3.No, it wouldn't really show anything
    4.Jane used rhetoric to convnce people

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  5. 1. to use the facts or information in the text to answer the question.
    2. they can be used as a way to make your writing more powerful. they are needed to articulate this purpose.
    3. No, because it won't show all of the story and the main purpose of the story. you need to interpret and explain before you analyze and summarize.
    4. Jane used rhetoric strategies to convince people that she was right.
    By: Kirsten Miller

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  6. 1.Support your ideas with evidence found in the text.
    2.Strategies that help people agree with you
    3.No becuase you are basically repeating what has already been said.
    4.Jane uses rhetoric strategies to get people to agree with her.

    -David Purpura

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  7. 1. Using this is to right a statement so that you understand the text better and make clear as to what your saying.
    2.convince people into what you are refering to and stating.
    3.most likely no,wouldnt have an effect.
    4.She uses them to convince people to read more of her work.And to see where she was coming from when she wrote it.
    EB

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  8. 1. The prompt wants you to support your ideas with evidence that you got.
    2. rhetorical strategies are strategies that helps the author use evidence for his or her's paper to convince people.
    3. It wouldn't be okay because you don't get all of the details correctly.
    4. Jane Smith uses evidence such as examples and scienific study to explain her case.
    - Michael Leffler

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  9. 1. Take the evidence that you read from the text then put it on paper.
    2. Stratigies that happen over and over again in language.
    3. No because if you are analizing somthing you are not summarizing everything that was said.
    4. I'll be talking about "In "Speech to the Council," and how it relates to speach.

    -Josh Sopa and Donovan Rhymes

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  10. 1. Use facts from the text that help support your answers.
    2. Convincing Audience
    3. No, because there wouldnt be enough detail.
    4. Jane uses many rhetoric strategies to convince people.
    ~ Kay McAlister

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  11. 1) Back up a point that the essay writer is trying to make. Relate back to a situation in the story.
    2) Rhetorical questions?
    3) Probably not
    -(My name is not really)Marylou Smentek

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  12. 1. use parts of the story to support your answer
    2. stratagies that make your idea more persuasive
    3. no
    4. she uses it to convince people
    -Josh Greenholt

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  13. 1.Using evidence is when you serch the text for support of your awsner.
    2.A strategy to make your view more appealing and persuasive.
    3.Highly unlikely, no
    4.Using it to convince people she is right

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  14. 1.Look at parts from the text in order to support your answer
    2.Strategies used to make an argument
    3.No because it is asking what rhetorical strategies she used
    4.Rhetorical strategies are very prevalent for the author to present her point in this essay

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  15. 1.Using evidence is when you serch the text for support of your awsner.
    2.A strategy to make your view more appealing and persuasive.
    3.Highly unlikely, no
    4.Using it to convince people she is right
    -Austin Hobbs

    P.S. previous entry was mine, forgot name sorry for any inconvienience

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  16. 1. She probably used text from a book or website.
    2. facts and strategies to convince the audience
    3. not exactly because the prompt is short and not nearly a paragraph
    4. Jane gives facts from the past, present and future to convince the audience how animal cruelty was like.
    - Elizabeth Teofilo

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  17. 1)Use facts and ideas from what you read.
    2)strategies make people agree with you and prove your point.
    3)No, because it won't show the details of what you are being asked to do.
    4)She uses rhetorical thoughts to convince people what to do.

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  18. 1. back up your thoughts with facts from the essay.
    2.strategies that help persuade
    3.No, with this kind of essay, you need to analyze it.
    4. Jane Smith used rhetorical strategies to back up her viewpoint on animal testing.

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  19. 1.) Cite specific lines from the text.
    2.) Ways to persuade your audience.
    3.) No because there's specific questions it wants you to answer.
    4.) The author uses many strategies to help persuade her audience into thinking animal testing is cruel.

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  20. -Go back and re-read and use facts from the text to support the answer.
    -Stragies that are used to help convice people.
    -No because it's already in the text
    - Using it to convice people

    -Megan Babcock

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  21. 1.It wants you to use facts from the story to back up your answer
    2.a way to persuade your audience
    3.no because their is a specific question you should answer
    4.jane uses rhetorical strategies in her text to convince her audiance that animal testing is cruel.
    -Brady Hughes

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  22. 1) When it tells you to use evidence from the text it means to use facts and statemenst from the texts.
    2) To persuade your audience use things that they would want to hear and things that would persuaide them.
    3) No because there are specific questions you have to answer in detail.
    4) The author uses a lot of persuasive strategies to make the audience think animal testing is cruel.
    -Gregory Holley

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  23. 1. This is were you use the facts you have done from research to support you claim.
    2. This is how you are trying to convince people, this is your stratagy for trying to convince others
    3.No, because it is already there, in the text.
    4.The author is using his stratagy to convince the others that animal testing is wrong
    -Logan Hobbs

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  24. 1. To explain how you got your answer based on the text you read.
    2. Ways to convince your audience.
    3. You are suppose to analyze, not summarizea, so no.
    4. Jane uses rhetorical strategies to convince her audience.

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  25. 1. To use examples from the text to support the topic.
    2. The way the author uses words to persuade people.
    3. No, because the effect of it gets diminished.
    4. Jane Smith uses a multitude of rhetorical strategies to convince the audience of her point.

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  26. 1. Jot down notes about the evidence you found
    2. using facts to persuade your audience
    3. no
    4. she used rhectorical strategies

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  27. 1. uses support from the story.
    2. a stragy to make your view look better.
    3.no.
    -Carly

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  28. it wants you to use what she says in the text to answer the question.
    No because you need to analyze not summarize.
    jane uses rhetorical strategies to convince her audience.

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  29. Mariah T. & Courtney L.January 9, 2012 at 8:43 AM

    1. It means to use the information you learned in the text in your summary.
    2. Rhetorical strategy is a device used to make your writing have structure.
    3. No it wouldn't be okay because you're suppose to be analyzing instead of summarizing.
    4. Jane is tyring to convince her audience that animal testing is cruel using rhetorical strategies.

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  30. 1> When it tells you to use facts from the text it means diffrent statements that are in the text you are givin
    2> to persuade your adubcue and use things they will want to hear and get them hucked.
    3> no becuse there are qestions that you will have to answer in detail.
    4> the aouther uses persuasive strtegies to make the adubce think anilam testing is bad
    megan milan and chelsea

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  31. 1. its means it wants you to use examples from the text to support your claim.
    2.Rhetorical stratgeis are things such as irony and they are startegies that make the reader want to be more engaged
    3. No becuase it is asking for you to show how the author uses rhetorical strategies to convinve her audiece; not what her main points to the audience are.
    4. The author uses rhetorical strategies to hook the audience by making the audience want to be more engaged
    -Wish Waraich and Jamayca Westley

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