-- 10.1 -- Points of View: Viewpoints, Texts

-- 10.1 -- Points of View: Viewpoints; 


Texts, Points of View: TFY C8 ViewpointsCRCB C8 Texts

TFY Chapter Eight Viewpoint

The chapter is about how to recognize viewpoints and understand how they filter reality for us.  Exercises and discussion in this chapter will show you how stories revolve around viewpoints, how conscious and unconscious viewpoints differ, how news framing conveys covert viewpoints, and how political viewpoints might be characterized.  Writing applications will allow you to sample the rhetoric, ideas and values of multiple viewpoints, both familiar and unfamiliar.  A concluding reading presents a viewpoint on our reluctance  to talk about religion and politics.


TFY C8 Glossary

An unconscious viewpoint	An unconscious viewpoint is a perspective unidentified by the viewer.
Egocentrism	Egocentrism is the assumption that one’s perspective is the only perspective.
Ethnocentrism	Ethnocentrism is the assumption that one’s own social or cultural group is superior to all others.
Exterior	To be exterior to one’s own viewpoint is to have a detached awareness of one’s viewpoint.
Infer	To use imagination and reasoning to fill in missing facts. To connect the dots.
News framing	News framing describes the way relative importance can be implied about a news item by layout design, page placement, photos, and the wording of headlines.
Opinion	Opinion is a word used to include an unsupported belief, a supported argument, an expert’s judgment, prevailing public sentiment, and a formal statement by a court.
Principal claim and reasons	These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something.
Religiocentrism	Religiocentrism is the assumption that one’s own religion is superior to all others.
Thinking	Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering.
Viewpoint	A viewpoint is a personal or collective perspective consisting of memories, beliefs, and associations from which events are observed and evaluated.

CRCB


PPt C8
Link:  http://www.elcamino.cc.ca.us/Faculty/dgross/critical.htm

-- 07 -- Opinions, Evaluations; Details, Inferences

-- 07 -- Opinions-- What's Believed? ,TFY-C6; Evaluations -- What's Judged?

Details, CRCB-C6;

TFY Chapter Summaries

Chapter Six Opinions
This chapter explores that familiar word opinion and examines the way it affects our ability to think critically. Again we have a familiar but confusing word that can be used in many different ways. Exercises are offered to help you assess your understanding of the different varieties of opinion. Writing applications ask you to test and expand what you know into essays that articulate, support, describe, or analyze opinions. Readings show you how professional writers can present support for an opinion; in one case through direct statement, and in a second case through a satirical sub-statement.

Glossaries

Chapter 6
Advice	Advice is to recommend an opinion to someone else.
Infer	To use imagination and reasoning to fill in missing facts. To connect the dots.
Judgment	Judgment is a final opinion, decision, conclusion or evaluation about something.
Opinion	Opinion is a word used to include an unsupported belief, a supported argument, an expert’s judgment, prevailing public sentiment, and a formal statement by a court.
Personal taste or preference	Personal taste or preferences are forms of opinions that express likes or dislikes. They can be irrational and need not be supported with reasons.
Principal claim and reasons	These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something.
Thinking	Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering.
Glossary

Web Links

Web Links
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EPINIONS
Who says your opinion doesn’t count? Consult a popular site consisting of reviews on cars, books, movies, music, computers, sports, travel etc. made by "real people."
http://www.epinions.com/
READERS’ OPINIONS
Consult this daily section of the New York Times that prints readers’ responses to featured articles.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/readersopinions/index.html
WORLD-WIDE OPINION
Here are links editorials appearing in an international array of newspapers.
http://www.uwb.edu/library/guides/SelectionWorldNews.htm
WRITING YOUR OPINION TO NEWSPAPERS
This excellent site offers specific information about how to write letters to editors and op-eds that will be published. It is especially designed for non-profits.
http://www.ccmc.org/oped.htm