establishing your dominant voice (eng 101 f2011)

8/6/2019 Establishing Your Dominant Voice (ENG 101 F2011)

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English 101: Composition I

Prairie State College

Prof. Sarena Lee-Schott


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What Is Dominant Voice?

How Do You Establish It?

Sandwiching Voices

Reading Response Assignments


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In a documented paper, the dominant voice

is your voice.

Especially in an argumentative paper, your

voice should communicate your ideas.


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The obvious place to present your voice is in

your introduction by way of your thesis

statement.

If your paper does not have a clear thesisfrom the beginning, then it does not provide

your audience with a clear idea of your

purpose for writing the paper.


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Although you must have a clear thesis

statement to establish your voice, you must

also go a step further to maintain the

dominant voice throughout your paper. Your paper should always focus on developing

your ideas.


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Topic sentences in your body paragraphs do

the work of maintaining your dominant voice

throughout your research paper.

Topic sentences should communicate yoursupporting ideas.

Supporting ideas are your reasons that support

your thesis statement.


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As you compose your documented paper,

source evidence gives your ideas more

credibility.

As a college student, you are not consideredan expert in the courses in which you are

studying, but your ideas are valued.

Source evidence gives your valued ideas

credibility from published professionals who aretrained experts.


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Aristotle Rhetorical Triangle


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Thus, according to Aristotle:

Your sources help you establish your logical

appeal.

The high quality of your logical appeal gives you

credibility as an academic writer.

An argument with too much emotional appeal

and not enough logical appeal hinders your

credibility and, as a result, your research paper.


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So, the next question is:

How do you integrate sources in a way that

allows your voice to be dominant while the

sources effectively support your ideas?


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A simple way to think about integrating

sources effectively is by using source

sandwiches.


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Components of a sources sandwich include:

1. An argument/assertion sentence, in which you

assert a supporting idea that links your source

quote to the topic sentence of your paragraph;

2. An introduction of your quote;

3. Your chosen source quotation;

4. Your analysis or explanation, in which you

discuss why this quote supports your assertion.


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In the context of a paragraph, how do these

components of a source sandwich work

together?


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Heres a sample source sandwich: From Where Does Polysorbate 60 Come From, Daddy?

by Steve Ettlinger

In Where Does Polysorbate 60 Come From,

Daddy? Steve Ettlinger draws my attention tohow little I know, as a consumer, about the foodsI purchase. After conducting some research,Ettlinger eventually learns the history of theTwinkie, including the dubious food technology

for which the result today is a cake known forits secret recipe and long shelf life (18).Essentially, the Twinkie is loaded with a lengthylist of preservatives that most consumers knownothing about.


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Component Example

Paragraph topic sentence In Where Does Polysorbate 60 Come

From, Daddy? Steve Ettlinger draws my

attention to how little I know, as a

consumer, about the foods I purchase.

Argument/assertion sentence After conducting some research,

Ettlinger eventually learns the history

of the Twinkie,

Source introduction including the dubious food technology

for which

Source quotation the result today is a cake known for its

secret recipe and long shelf life (18).

Analysis or explanation Essentially, the Twinkie is loaded with a

lengthy list of preservatives that most

consumers know nothing about.


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In the larger context of a documented paper,

it might seem somewhat daunting to think

about how source sandwiches fit and

function.

Your reading response assignments will give

you an opportunity to get comfortable with

using this technique, so you can eventually

use it successfully in your papers. A full sample of a reading response included in

the document titled Reading Response

Guidelines, Schedule, and Sample, which is

posted in D2L.


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