SAT Summer 2016 Students
Dear PACE Students: For the duration of the summer, you will be responsible for keeping up your own blog. The blog will serve as a space for you to work on the reading strategies as well as the analytical writing techniques that we will be discussing in class. Each week, you must... a) choose a news article b) read the article (do a descriptive outline for yourself) c) create a post in which you analyze one aspect of the article's effectiveness with respect to persuasion. Every post should include a link to the article you've read. By way of example... Does the public have a right to know a cop's history? In Conor Friedersdorf's article, Friedersdorf, among other things, describes the challenges Californians face in obtaining the records of police officers. While I, too, find that fact disturbing, I am aware of my being manipulated via emotional appeals. The first four paragraphs of the article clearly cast aspersions on police officers by citing only the mor...