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Rhetorical Appeals Logos, Pathos, Ethos, Kairos, etc. for persuasive writing

By AHA-Rhetoric

9-slide PowerPoint shows how these classical Greek strategies can help persuade your audience to your argument with reason, emotion, credibility, and timeliness for better essay writing and critical thinking (also mentions appeals of Topos/strategic

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Critical Thinking, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3

$2.00

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Rhetorical modes: a strategy-options menu to design persuasive arguments

By AHA-Rhetoric

A 1-page handout summarizes 15 strategies to present ideas effectively for various audiences and circumstances and can serve as a brain-storming stimulus for inventing/designing an effective essay. Seeing all of them on one page allows you to get an

Subjects:

Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Handouts

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3

$2.00

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Socratic Questioning: the art of the flip, or at least sowing a little doubt

By AHA-Rhetoric

PPT and handout show how to convert people of opposing viewpoints with respectful, “innocent” questions to challenge their view and its upstream premises or downstream outcomes. A short dialogue exemplifies the academic explanation as argued by Tim

Subjects:

Philosophy, Political Science, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2

$2.00

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Writing Essay Introductions: A Strong Thesis Sentence in an Engaging Context

By AHA-Rhetoric

3-frame GIF describes a Toulmin-type thesis sentence and includes such an example; also lists 12 ways to set the tone/context/value of the argument; such as scene-setting, asking a question, quoting someone, etc. Image size 960×720 (file size 322

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Critical Thinking, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Handouts, Prezis

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3

$2.00

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Slogans & Sound Bites: Rhetorical tricks for persuasive & memorable writing

By AHA-Rhetoric

PowerPoint explains the persuasive power of figurative language used in politics and marketing. A clever writer can exploit the mind’s affinity for rhythm and making connections. Dress up ideas in appealing language, and the audience becomes more

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Critical Thinking, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

CCSS:

CCRA.L.3

$2.00

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Newtonian Plot Dynamics: Animated GIF compares laws of motion and storytelling

By AHA-Rhetoric

Newton’s 3 laws of motion conceptually parallel the patterns of plot development in storytelling, fiction or non-fiction. This animated GIF comparison helps both physics people to understand narrative writing and also literary people to understand

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Physics, Physical Science

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables, Prezis

CCSS:

CCRA.W.3

$2.00

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Metaphor: It’s NOT just for poetry—it’s how we think, learn, and communicate

By AHA-Rhetoric

Analyzing a metaphor (tenor, vehicle, ground, & gap) helps us appreciate poetry, but it also helps us learn. We relate new stuff with old stuff to make sense of it—then we can likewise share it with others. This 25-slide presentation explores

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

CCSS:

RL.11-12.4, L.11-12.5, L.11-12.5a

$2.00

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Causality Concerns & Fallacies for Writers: logical, persuasive explanations

By AHA-Rhetoric

Cause-and-effect reasoning asks about all related agents and conditions, sometimes multiple and chained effects or mere coincidence and whether causes are necessary or sufficient for the effects. Some common fallacies can confuse an explanation or

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Philosophy, Critical Thinking

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3

$2.00

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Animated GIFs—How to Make and Use

By AHA-Rhetoric

PowerPoint slide show explains step-by-step how to make animated GIFs by using just PowerPoint and a free online GIF-maker utility (instead of an expensive graphics program); demonstrates some examples that can engage student interest and direct

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Science

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Prezis, Professional Development

$2.00

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The Persuasive Power of Story: How suspending disbelief can trump reasoning

By AHA-Rhetoric

Stories can engage our heart, brain, and senses into a “fake” reality so we accept an idea, buy a product, or even vote without fully thinking it through. News, literary and marketing stories use rhetorical and psychological tricks to sneak into our

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

CCSS:

CCRA.W.3

$2.00

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Writing Essay Conclusions: Six Strategies Similar to Closure in a Story

By AHA-Rhetoric

GIF compares 6 ways to end an essay with 5 ways to resolve a story: restatement and manifesting a moral; anecdotal scene and natural termination/encapsulation; hook-and-return and completion of antithesis; pan-to-larger perspective and manifesting a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Critical Thinking, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables, Prezis

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3

$2.00

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Smiley-Face Winking Bobble-Head—PowerPoint file to design the Animated GIF

By AHA-Rhetoric

This file can be used to make or modify the corresponding AGIF. It includes the 60 frames of the free AGIF plus about 10 others that could be modified for other facial expressions (sadness, surprise, etc.). One could re-arrange the frames or modify

Subjects:

Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Prezis, Professional Development

$2.00

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Thesis-Sentencing Guidelines: 30-slide PPT, 6-page PDF Handout, Animated GIF

By AHA-Rhetoric

Why & how to fit the function and essential thesis of an essay’s argument into the form of a single sentence; sentence types & use, cumulative sentences, & balancing left/right-brain arguments. Three files:1) a PowerPoint presentation

Subjects:

English, Writing

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.L.1

$2.00

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Using Autocorrect to efficiently insert often-used comments for student feedback

By AHA-Rhetoric

This PowerPoint shows how to quickly make helpful comments when returning student files. For often-used comments, you can pre-program them and then insert them quickly with just their shortcut codes. For example, you can enter a 3-character code,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Professional Development, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables, Prezis

$2.00

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Evaluation essays: supporting claims with criteria, evidence, and reasoning

By AHA-Rhetoric

Writing about the relative worth of anything requires the careful use, ranking, & justification of criteria. Measures of worth can be quantitative, qualitative, concrete, comparable, compelling, & evolving. What was once considered fair may

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Critical Thinking, Writing-Essays

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.4

$2.00

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Toulmin Argument Model: claim, data, warrant/backing, counter-claim/rebuttal

By AHA-Rhetoric

This slightly revised model of rational argument adds a backbone of the scientific method and also replaces Qualifier with Counter-Claim (per Purdue OWL). Slow-animated GIF highlights/describes argument parts and how they work together to persuade a

Subjects:

Communications, Critical Thinking, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables, Prezis

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2

FREE

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Royal Plagiarism I: Melania Trump “borrows” from Michelle Obama

By AHA-Rhetoric

Animated GIF shows that corresponding parts of their convention speeches are nearly identical. Slowly successive frames highlight the similar words and phrases, showing both direct and mosaic plagiarism. Melania’s speech writer was careless in

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Political Science, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Handouts, Prezis

CCSS:

CCRA.W.2, CCRA.L.1

FREE

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Active-Reading Worksheet/Questions for any text (essay, story, poem, etc.)

By AHA-Rhetoric

1-page worksheet of a dozen questions to enrich the reading of any type of text. Working through the four sections (Scan, Read, Reflect, Argue), the student (or class discussion) can better understand the text and be ready to say something

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Critical Thinking

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.R.10

FREE

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Essay-Design Form, Student Worksheet or Teacher Demo of argument invention

By AHA-Rhetoric

This Word Form helps plan an essay with a claim, a logical and physical design, and an outline of sub-arguments; students can fill in the fields, or instructor can work through the steps to model the process that a thoughtful essay-writer goes

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Critical Thinking, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Classroom Forms

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3

FREE

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Dramatic reading & discussion: how inner dialogue can explore life’s meaning

By AHA-Rhetoric

“Moral-Mystic Mantra” is a student-read dialogue among interior voices: thesis, antithesis, hypothesis, & synthesis. Explores moral/spiritual issues and shows how reflective thinking with multiple perspectives may be helpful in writing essays or

Subjects:

Drama, Philosophy, Writing-Essays

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3

FREE

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Technical writing ~20 years; English Composition adjunct instructor ~20 years

MY TEACHING STYLE

seated and online

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Yet to be added

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

BA from Toledo University; MA from Cleveland State University

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbihary/