Week 1, Blog 1 (TA)

Enthymeme #1:

Audience: Teachers/professors looking to make their teaching more effective.

WATCO: Wandering around the room while giving a lecture on the attentiveness of the students?

Claim: Wandering around the room while giving a lecture improves the attentiveness of the students…

Reason: …because the students feel more apt to be called upon.

B > C: The attentiveness of the students improves when the students feel more apt to be called upon.

Enthymeme #2:

Audience: Doctors looking to make their offices more inviting.

WATCO: Using orange chairs/wallpaper/décor on customer serenity and comfort?

Claim: Using orange chairs/wallpaper/décor has a negative effect on customer serenity and comfort…

Reason: …because the color orange has been proven to cause uneasy and hostile feelings.

B > C: Customer serenity and comfort is negatively affected because the color orange has been proven to cause uneasy and hostile feelings.

Enthymeme #3:

Audience: Families with children moving out of the home to college/marriage and are concerned about distance.

WATCO: Long-distance relationships on family closeness?

Claim: Long-distance relationships detrimentally effect family closeness…

Reason: …because families no longer share the same experiences, environments, and trials.

B > C: Family closeness is negatively affected by families no longer share the same experiences, environments, and trials.