Finding Arguments in Lived Experience (continued)

“An implicit argument,” in Ramage and Bean’s words, “doesn’t look like an argument. “It may be a poem or short story, a photograph or cartoon, a personal essay or an autobiographical narrative. But like an explicit argument, it persuades its audience toward a certain point of view” (4, emphasis added). This semester, we will focus on using lived experience to inform and enrich your arguments, to make your arguments more powerful and more moving. We will also concentrate on what some call “visual literacy”—all the implicit arguments that come to us through film and photos and digital means. More than at any other time in our history, our composition increasingly takes forms that mix visual and verbal media. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Contents Eldred-University of Kentucky English-University of Kentucky Writing Program-Town and Gown

Osage Avenue in 1985 (read article) Image & story from Philadelphia citypaper.net