Eng 201.01 & 03                                               10/6/16

            Claims, Arguments & Dasani: Invisible Child

Background & Foreground: For today's class you should have read Part I of Andrea Elliot's NYT story about Dasani Coates and her family 's experience of homelessness in Brooklyn. This class you are going to identify claims from Part I of the article and begin to develop an analysis of them. The prompts are below. Post your response under the "Presentation/

Research Project" tab. Name the module "Claims, Arguments & Dasani." This assignment is due by the end of class on Thursday, 10/6. 

Remember: a claim is a statement that can be proven either true or false.

Part I:

• Identify 3-4 claims from Part I. List them.

• Choose the claim you find most compelling from above. Why? What larger argument does that claim support?

• Examine the claims you listed. Based on them, what's your analysis of Dasani, homelessness in NYC, etc?

Part II:

• Identify 2 of the following in Part I: a subterfuge, a contradiction, or a commonplace falsehood. In the context of the article, what's the purpose of these rhetorical devices? Why does the author deploy them?

• Browse through some of the reader comments on "Dasani: Invisible Child." What contradictions, subterfuges or commonplace falsehoods do you find there? What's your analysis of them?

HW: In addition to reading Parts II & III of Dasani, subscribe to DNA Info NYC. Write a 1-paragraph summary of  1 story from "Crime & Mayhem," 1 story from "Politics"  and 1 story from another section of your choosing. Based on the three stories you have selected, what have you learned about NYC that you didn't know? Anything you want to follow up on? If so, what?  Post your response under the "Presentation/Research Project" tab. Title the module "DNA Info Summaries."