Randy Beach: Oh. Hello, everyone, and welcome to an explanation for writing rhetorical precis. This is one of your first graded assignments in English 116
Randy Beach: And I'm going to walk you through a few slides showing you the different components of the rhetorical precis. The elements I'll be looking for when you turn them in. And when I'm assessing them and when I'm giving you feedback on them.
Randy Beach: And I'll show you an example of rhetorical precis as well as the rubric that I'll be using to assess your precis. So let's get started.
Randy Beach: With the presentation. So our rhetorical precis may be something you haven't written before. it is a very highly structured paragraph. It's a single paragraph.
Randy Beach: That consists of four sentences, but each of those sentences is telling me telling your reader, something about an essay that you read
Randy Beach: A piece of writing that you read, you can see the different elements that are going to come out in a precis listed here.
Randy Beach: The name of the speaker in the context around the delivery of the message. The major claims that are being made.
Randy Beach: The type of development that's happening. The evidence that's being provided the relationship between the speaker and the audience.
Randy Beach: These are all things that we've been talking about in the first couple of weeks of our class. So you'll have an opportunity in the precis to show what you've learned about them.
Randy Beach: So as I said a moment ago, each of those four sentences in that paragraph does a specific job it has a specific role and there are very specific elements and I'll be looking for in the sample. I'm showing you. I've used color coding to emphasize the different parts of the
Randy Beach: Sentence that you're going to include in the precis. If you have any issues or challenges with seeing color, please let me know and I can provide you a different version of this presentation, but what you're seeing here. The words that are in red
Randy Beach:  indicate that the precis the first sentence requires the author's name, along with a phrase that describes the author
Randy Beach: In the corresponding column to the right you can see in this example, Stephanie Coontz is a an author that you may or may not have read, but she is someone
Randy Beach: That is well known in her field. She has a history and Family Studies professor and award winning writer.
Randy Beach: And nationally recognized expert on the family. So in this example, you can see how the pricey. The first sentence and the pricing includes the name of the author and a little bit about them.
Randy Beach: And when you come over to the right and the example you can see how that might look in a typical precis
Randy Beach: And then as you go through the rest of the sample that's that's how this presentation works. The blue writing in emphasizes the genre and title of work.
Randy Beach: That you're going to be writing about. the green emphasizes the claim and you will be expected to provide a rhetorically accurate verb that
Randy Beach: tells the reader exactly what the author, In this case, Stephanie Coontz .exactly what she's doing. Is she making a claim? Is she arguing? is she asserting something?
Randy Beach: Is she implying something? when you read the article, you'll have a better sense of what would be the right verb to use for this very specific
Randy Beach: Element of the precis. And then finally, in the end of the first sentence, you will include a "THAT" clause which rewrites the thesis statement of the work. This is not a thesis statement you create this as a thesis statement that Stephanie Coontz in this example has created
Randy Beach: Moving on to sentence 2. sentence to includes a statement of the author's apparent purpose, followed by what we call an in order phrase.
Randy Beach: The blue writing. You can see Stephanie Coontz's purposes to persuade the reader to do something to see something.
Randy Beach: And then the words in purple. The "in order" phrase goes on to explain in more detail exactly what Stephanie Coontz hopes to accomplish by writing this argumentative piece this essay. So in the second sentence. You'll have these two elements demonstrated by the two different colors here.
Randy Beach: In sentence 3. This is a bit more precise. sentence three describes the intended audience the author has for the writing. There are different ways you can tell who the intended audiences, you might want to consider.
Randy Beach: The source, what type of magazine, what type of website. What type of media is being being used to deliver the message.
Randy Beach: Looking at the language, whether the language is very formal and academic, is it informal, conversational. Maybe you'll see slang within the essay that gives you a sense of who the intended audience is and what the,  who the author is trying to reach with their writing
Randy Beach: And then finally, in sentence 4 you'll see an explanation of the evidence or rather, you'll provide an explanation of the evidence that the author uses to develop their thesis to develop their claim or their assertion whatever verb you've chosen. You can see in this example here.
Randy Beach: The sentence begins with the author's name and it goes on to explain the different types of information that's provided. Data,
Randy Beach: anecdotes from her own life, references to popular media or TV shows, what is the type of evidence? What is the evidence that she's providing and how does it help to establish credibility?
Randy Beach: All of these are concepts and ideas that you learn in this week's module in the page on rhetorical strategies and modes of persuasion.
Randy Beach: That's the end of the presentation. Let's jump out for a moment and take a look at a sample, or rather, take a look at the same essay, the same precis that's been that is available to you in the module and the on the Canvas page on precis. You can see in this case.
Randy Beach: The same color highlighting has been applied to show you what the full precis might look together when you put it all together as one paragraph.
Randy Beach: Obviously this is a long paragraph. You may not be accustomed to writing such a long paragraph, but these sentences are very specific and what I'll be looking for.
Randy Beach: In very precise. So how long it takes to write the paragraph is how long it takes. And finally, also available to you in the module.
Randy Beach: Is a rubric for the precis. And you can see this, the rubric is broken down sentence by sentence.
Randy Beach: The first column provides the criteria or the sentence number and then as you come across the rows, you can see how many points, potentially, you can earn for for providing all the information that's required in those sentences.
Randy Beach: So that's your rhetorical precis. That is the first graded, major graded assignment, you'll have for this semester.
Randy Beach: If you do have any questions you can always email those questions to me in the Canvas Inbox. Also, don't forget on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 1030 to 1130 we have our Student Support Office Hour so please drop them into my Zoom room at that time.
Randy Beach: Thanks for tuning in for the video.
