CL: 3/3

Notes from today:

Warrant – unspoken vales a writer thinks he shares with his readers.

• These warrants are steeped and come out of the discourse of their specific discourse community

Argument style (evidence, reason, format, genre) comes from the discourse community.

Knowledge – is made through discourse and creates multiplicities for individual to use.  

DuBois’s essay – The rhetorical triangle exercise and the Toulmin method:

The Issue: Black Americans are being denied the vote and public ed. They are not getting the equal rights they deserve.

The Gap: Explains why this is a disadvantage and why access to both is important.

The Readers: This brings out a lot of pathos because it brings out emotion and they effect the reader in a way were it makes it feel this way. I think the readers would be people that love emotion and feeling through reading. Also, I think this is for the same people that feel the day he does with not feeling worthy or equal. He said “It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.”(p.g. 142 ). I feel he also wants to get his point out to white people and start to evoke change.

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Claim: Black Americans are being denied the rights of white Americans. Also, the black Americans also just feel different then others and shut out from everyone and that their options don’t matter.

Evidence: He shows he feels different. He says “Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?”

Reasoning: He doesn’t even feel comfortable in his own body and home.

Warrant: He is trying to get a crossed that he wants things to change and that whites need to not only just see me feel and understand that it is important that black Americans get the same equal rights and respect as they do.