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Lumen: Putting It Together: Rhetorical Appeals
This lesson brings together the rhetorical appeals including Logos, Pathos, and Ethos and how to identify and apply each. Click the Next link for more information.
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Lumen: Analysis: What Is Analysis?
This lesson focuses on analysis including defining analysis and listing the essential skills of analysis.
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Lumen: Analysis: The Language of Analytic Assignments
This instructional activity focuses on understanding the language of assignments that indicate the need or analysis including a list of verbs that denote the need for analysis and assignments that ask you how the parts relate to the...
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Lumen: Analysis: Evidence
This lesson focuses on evidence in the analysis including being selective with evidence, being clear and explicit, and moving past obvious interpretations.
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Lumen: Analysis: Rhetorical Analysis
This lesson focuses on defining rhetorical analysis and identifying and applying different types of analytic processes. It also provides a practice activity.
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Lumen: Analysis: Process Analysis
This lesson focuses on process analysis including processes by people, machines, and nature. They can be classified as descriptive and prescriptive. It also includes a practice activity.
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Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Appeals to Pathos
This instructional activity focuses on appeals to pathos; to connect to the audience by evoking emotions or by suggesting that author and audience share attitudes, beliefs, and values.
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Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Manipulative Appeals to Pathos
This lesson focuses on the manipulative appeals to pathos, trying to unfairly play upon the audience's feelings and emotions through fallacious, misleading, or excessively emotional appeals.
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Lumen: Using Sources: Bringing Sources Into the Conversation
This instructional activity focuses on identifying the five components of the "source sandwich:" transition and introduction; a signal phrase; quotation, paraphrase, or summary; citation, and explanation of material's relevance. A...
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Common Logical Fallacies
This lesson focuses on logical fallacies including defining them, discussing the different types of logical fallacies, and a practice activity.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Spotting Logical Fallacies
This lesson focuses on recognizing common logical fallacies and evaluating them in texts. It also provides a practice exercise.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Building Common Ground
This introduction discusses the need for researching your audience and learn strategies to find common ground.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Analysis
This lesson focuses on audience analysis and recognizing rhetorical approaches to building common ground. A practice activity is provided.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Awareness
This instructional activity focuses on audience awareness by recognizing and evaluating rhetorical approaches to building common ground. It also provides an example.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Tone, Language, and Appeal
This lesson focuses on using tone, language, and appeal to recognize and evaluate rhetorical approaches to building common ground. RI.9-10.4 word meanings/impact of choice
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Further Your Understanding: Refutation and Rebuttal
This lesson focuses on examples of rebuttal and refutation to improve your understanding.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Scholarly vs. Non Scholarly Sources
This instructional activity focuses on types of sources including scholarly vs. non-scholarly sources and print, online, and multimedia.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Craap Analysis of Print Sources
This lesson focuses on evaluating print sources using CRAAP Analysis: Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. A practice exercise is included. W.9-10.8 Sources
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Introduction to Online Sources
This is an introduction to evaluate methods to assess the quality of online sources. Click the next button on the right bottom.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Craap Analysis of Online Sources
This lesson focuses on evaluating online sources using the CRAAP Analysis: Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. A practice exercise is provided. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Introduction to Multimedia Sources
An introduction to methods of evaluating multimedia sources.
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Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Craap Analysis of Multimedia Sources
This lesson focuses on evaluating multimedia sources using the CRAAP Analysis: Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. Click on the NEXT button on the bottom right for more information. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
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Lumen: Using Sources: Mla Works Cited
This activity focuses on creating a Works Cited page using the MLA format including page numbers, title, spacing, alphabetical order, and hanging indents. An example is provided. Click the Next button at the bottom right for detailed "in...
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Lumen: Using Source: Mla in Text Citations
This lesson focuses on how to use MLA in-text (or parenthetical) citations including examples and non-examples and a detailed flow chart of when and how to use them. L.9-10.3a Standard Format