Reflections on Hazlitt Prompt

What does “want” mean?

Failures of reading vs. writing/analysis

Allow your organization to be

boring

1.Topic Sentence2. Setting up evidence3. Quoted evidencepurpose and strategy4. Commentary that goes beyond summary to invoke analysis

Avoid all evaluation:“Hazlitt masterfully

plays on the emotions”

You’re a car mechanic not an marketer.

Use the flowchart

Never ever say logos, ethos, or pathos.

Ever.

Logos: What argument? How presented?

Pathos--What emotion? How invoked?

Ethos: What credibility? How invoked?

Audience: Not just rich people...

Why doesn’t he talk about starving or not feeding your family?

The Megasentence: Commenting on syntax hard, but if done well...

The ending is a tip off. This isn’t about poor people; it’s about poor

artists.