Objectives

Students will...

Demonstrate understanding of the principles of pathos, ethos, and logos

Understanding of the importance of knowing their audience and judging which forms of argumentation are most likely to succeed with a given audience

Ability to adapt an argument to a specific audience and rhetorical situation

Apply their knowledge to a specific audience and rhetorical situation 

Use quotation marks and corresponding punctuation

Use quotes to indicate sarcasm, irony, euphemism, or slang

Use quotes to indicate using a word or phrase as the words per se

Use quotes for titles of short works

Use commas and colons to introduce a quote

Know when to use capital letters to start a quote

Use single quotes inside double quotes

Use indirect quotes

When and how to combine two sentences into one

How to use semicolons and commas with coordinating conjunctions to combine complete sentences

The relationship between underlining and using italics

How to utilize italics to add emphasis

How to utilize italics for foreign words

Use of italics for titles of longer creative works like books, magazines, newspapers, long poems, movies, TV shows, radio shows, musical pieces, dance pieces, paintings or sculptures, or computer programs

Italicize the whole title, not just the letters. For example, if there is an exclamation mark in the actual title, then italicize the exclamation mark too

Use of italics to specify the names of ships, aircraft, spacecraft, and trains

Use of italics to specify the scientific name (genus and species) of an organism like a plant or animal