CAD - Killingsworth Ch 5 6 response PDF

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Chapter 5-6 Killingsworth Response Assignment...

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Monica Urias CAD - Killingsworth Ch 5/6 response

Prompt: Please answer the regular questions from the Reading Log, but create a paragraph or two that discuss your ideas. Your answer should be at least 150 words per discussion.

What it actually says: Quote a passage that stands out for you for any reason--because it seems important, because it is confusing, because you agree with it, because you disagree with it, or something else. Remember to introduce the quotation with context and include the page number (i.e. USE ATTRIBUTIVE LANGUAGE).

What I think it means: Explain it or put it in your own words. You can also comment on your reaction to the quotation here. If you chose a passage that confused you, try to identify exactly what confused you about it and what parts of it you understand. I think it means this because... : Explain how you figured it out. Name a strategy (e.g., connecting with prior experience, connecting different points in the text, identifying key words, etc.) then describe how that strategy helped you.

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In Chapter 6, Killingsworth introduces a passage from Johnathan Kozol's book, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation.  Killingsworth elaborates on the

passage saying "We can see the injustice, dishonor, and lack of dignity. He doesn't have to preach us a sermon. In this sense the appeal to the body urges us to come down from the heights of abstract thinking and feel the world we are trying to think about"(pg. 75) Killingsworth incorporated Kozol's passage from his book, to make sense of the appeal. Kozol's restrained style helps the audience feel the passage without necessarily using lots of descriptive adjectives or adverbs. Killingsworth says that we do not need to use our mind to decode what Kozol is saying, and we do not need to think in an abstract form. The fact that the appeal to poverty and health, which is mentioned prior to the passage, has an impact on our reaction when reading it, that itself is an appeal to the body.

There is a risk when using appeals to the body because it presents images of life as a poor person to a comfortable audience. There is the fear that "the audience will turn away from the message, repulsed by a kind of natural defensiveness. But the authors are counting on a different response, a sort of natural fascination, the kind of curiosity that causes people to look closely when they pass the scene of an automobile accident, often in spite of their conscious wishes"(pg. 80). Ironically, when I read through the appeals to the body, my response was that of which the authors count on. Even though some of the examples may have been disturbing to think about, I developed a curiosity which forced me to keep reading. I realized that this is true and it is a very effective rhetorical appeal. At first I was not sure what Killingsworth meant by the "appeal to the body", but after reading through some of his examples I then realized what it was. It's a clever technique in my opinion, but not in a cruel way. Rather, it is an effective appeal to use in order to catch the reader's

interest on matters that need the most attention. For example: racial issues, poverty issues, and other nationally recognized problems that affect our society.

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