MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Hello.

This webblog -- aka blog -- is OUR CLASS text.  No book to buy.  Cheer! (YouTube animation+sound of, well, cheering!)

Topics for Wednesday and Friday:  all means of persuasion, aka, the proofs (pistei) of Aristotle:

Logos, pathos, ethos.

Listen/watch this five-minute video by educator Krista Price.

So, question for contemplation:  How do we trust her?  What is her ethos?  Hint: k-12 is really k-16.  Teachers know stuff and so do students.

Now, let's consider the cognitive aspects of persuasion presented by journalist and podcaster Shankar Vedantam in his popular Hidden Brain series. Hint:  you can listen at 1.5 speed, while walking around campus. Another way to access this information is to use the coordinated website he offers, with a text summary and references. D. Sanders/NPR

On to a "news you can use" resource that is presented in multimedia format with written text (eight-minute read) as the basis.

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Key ideas:

rhetoric, logso.pathos, ethos, persuasion

ABL -- always be learning

What is a text?  Is a podcast or video a text?

What is a genre or text type?  Think classification from biology (genus, species, etc).

Science says, we can learn and retain better if we switch up the attributes of material to learn. (Do you believe/trust my claim here? Why or why not?)

Friday?  We think about persuasion and the infographic, a visual genre for communication of complex information.  See you at the same Google meet link posted in your ELMS welcome announcement. We will start with this Tweet by a former student who shows a short video of her med school sketchnote journal.

Weird GIF of day (also Happy Lunar Asian New Year):

From a London-based scholar