Key topics: Rhetorical situation: speaker, audience, purpose, subject, context, exigence, Identifying and describing claims in nonfiction texts, Evidence types: anecdotal, logical, empirical, authoritative, Claim-evidence-commentary paragraph structure, Introduction to the four Big Ideas: RHS, CLE, REO, STL, Defensible thesis statements that go beyond restatement.
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