Week 2

Video Lectures

Unit 4: Structure at the level of genre

Unit 5: Where to find ready-made structures for specific writing tasks

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Unit 6: What is rhetoric and how can I use it?

Unit 7: No structure: an illustration 

How structure helps us think

Required Reading

The inverted pyramid and similar structures

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Optional Reading

The Science of Scientific Writing

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Browse

The Foundation Center 

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Check out these links to learn more about rhetoric

Augsburg.edu

U. of Toronto 

lumen

About the week ahead

Practice

Note: Word files are stored on Google Drive. You can open them from here or go to the folder and download them directly.

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The 3-move pattern

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Applying the inverted pyramid

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Compare & contrast

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Cutting clutter 1: para 

Cutting clutter 2: implicit vs explicit

Quizzes​

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Week 2 Structure Quiz

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