-- 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.

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