HOW TO WRITE BLOG POST NUMBER 4

For this week's blog post, I would like for you to use the following format:

Name of author [optional: a phrase describing author], genre and title of work
[date and additional publishing information in parenthesis]; a rhetorically
accurate verb (such as "assert," "argue," “suggest," "imply," "claim," etc.); and a
THAT clause containing the major assertion (thesis statement) of the work.
An explanation of how the author develops and/or supports the thesis, usually in
chronological order – always identifying the rhetorical mode(s) employed.
A statement of the author's apparent purpose followed (introduce with the
infinitive “to”). A description of the intended audience and/or the relationship the author establishes with the audience.

Student example:
Bell hooks, in her essay “Women Who Write too Much” from Remembered Rapture (1999),
suggests that all dissident writers, particularly black female writers, face enormous time pressures, for if they are not prodigious, they are never noticed by mainstream publishers. She supports her position first by describing her early writing experiences that taught her to “not be afraid of the writing process”; second, by explaining her motives for writing, including “political activism”; and lastly, by affirming her argument, stressing that people must strategically schedule their writing and “make much of that time.” Her two-pronged purpose is to respond to critics and to encourage minority writers to develop their own voice. Although at times her writing seems almost didactic, hooks ultimately establishes a companionable relationship with her audience of both critics and women who seek to improve the effectiveness of their own writing.

(www.macomb.k12.mi.us/utica/ford/website/.../AP_eng_language_11th.pdf)