#buildingyourdraft

DJP #7 was about focusing your writing about your concepts. This digital journal is about considering explanatory strategies. While deciding how you will offer an explanation to your reader, you should consider credibility (ethos) and tone. What does the concept you have chosen call for? What tone would your audience expect you to use when explaining the concept you have chosen? Is it a very serious concept? Is it not? Tone matters.

With regard to ethos and credibility: Is the concept you have chosen quite technical? If so, this will affect your audiences expectations with regard to your sources. So, how do you explain your concept AND/OR the misconception you may see to a general audience? What strategies work well for your chosen concept, which do you think would not work well.

In this digital journal post, we will explore a few explanatory strategies you will plan to use in your concept essay.

On page 155 of SM Guide (at the bottom of the page), the authors suggest to us that it may be helpful to consider the following questions: (these are possible explanatory strategies)

How would you define it?  (”It” here is the concept.)

What examples would help your readers understand it? (”It” here is the concept.)

How is it similar to or different from other related concepts? (”It” here is the concept.)

How does it happen or get done? (”It” here is the concept.)

*Note that the pages that follow in the chapter give you lots to think about explanatory chapters. Chapter 16 is full of explanatory strategies (or strategies for defining).

For this DJP (which is due by Thursday at 9:30AM), you will write a response to at least two of these questions. I’m asking you to do meta-composing here - thinking and writing about what you will plan to write.

Choose the 2 questions above that you feel most connect with your concept.

Explain HOW you will respond to the thought in your paper with regard to your concept. For example: if I were answering “How would you define it?,” I would consider what tone and what sources I need to use in order to define the concept itself. A simple dictionary definition only gets us so far. We are beyond that now. So, how will you define it?

Write at least 1 paragraph for each, 2 paragraphs in total (at least).

DJP #7 was about focusing your writing about your concepts. This digital journal is about considering explanatory strategies. While deciding how you will offer an explanation to your reader, you should consider credibility (ethos) and tone. What does the concept you have chosen call for? What tone would your audience expect you to use when explaining the concept you have chosen? Is it a very serious concept? Is it not? Tone matters.

With regard to ethos and credibility: Is the concept you have chosen quite technical? If so, this will affect your audiences expectations with regard to your sources. So, how do you explain your concept AND/OR the misconception you may see to a general audience? What strategies work well for your chosen concept, which do you think would not work well. 

In this digital journal post, we will explore a few explanatory strategies you will plan to use in your concept essay.

On page 155 of SM Guide (at the bottom of the page), the authors suggest to us that it may be helpful to consider the following questions: (these are possible explanatory strategies)

How would you define it?  (”It” here is the concept.)

What examples would help your readers understand it? (”It” here is the concept.)

How is it similar to or different from other related concepts? (”It” here is the concept.)

How does it happen or get done? (”It” here is the concept.)

*Note that the pages that follow in the chapter give you lots to think about explanatory chapters. Chapter 16 is full of explanatory strategies (or strategies for defining).

For this DJP (which is due by Thursday at 9:30AM), you will write a response to at least two of these questions. I’m asking you to do meta-composing here - thinking and writing about what you will plan to write.

Choose the 2 questions above that you feel most connect with your concept.

Explain HOW you will respond to the thought in your paper with regard to your concept. For example: if I were answering “How would you define it?,” I would consider what tone and what sources I need to use in order to define the concept itself. A simple dictionary definition only gets us so far. We are beyond that now. So, how will you define it?

Write at least 1 paragraph for each, 2 paragraphs in total (at least).