FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II
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INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITING
INSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield
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FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II&INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITINGINSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield
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English 1010 James Maxfield Illustration of Rhetorical Modes: Division, Classification, and Example These three modes of writing are related and can be used to help organize, arrange, and focus your topic. Suppose you have a broad topic such as Transportation. It would be logical to discuss such a broad topic in terms of various modes of transportation. We can arrange an essay by Dividing the topic into smaller parts, such as air travel, trains, buses, cars, or by water. If more focus is required, one division can be broken down by Classification. For instance, we might want to discuss automobiles by classifying them by a particular characteristic, such as cost, speed, or size: for example by size we might look at micro-sized cares, sub-compacts, mid-sized, and full-sized cars. If additional focus is needed, we could narrow our discussion on a specific type or example of car, such as only high-performance cars, such as: the Corvette, the Mazaratti, the Porsche, the Astin-Martin, the Fiat Spider, and the Lamborghini. This group could be arranged further by discussing the cars in order of the lowest cost to highest cost, from the slowest car to the fastest car, or by degrees of popularity measured in terms of annual sales. Sample arrangement of 3 different topics using Division, Classification, and Examples.
For Essay # 3: Use only one of these methods of focusing and arranging your essay topic material. Choose either Example, Division, or Classification to write your essay. Choose any topic that can be logically Divided, Classified, or illustrated with many examples or types. |
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