<p>For the ap english language argumentive essays, how do you guys think of good examples for support? I usually take like 7 minutes to think of examples and they are never good, and i am never able to expand on them. Help, advice?</p>
<p>use different rhetoric devices such as ad homenin, ad vericundium, ad populum, syntax, repetition.... just different ways that the author gets his/her point across</p>
<p>You can use personal experience. Make em up if you have to, but I wouldn't do this.</p>
<p>You can use any movie or TV show that you've seen, or anything from science or history AS LONG AS IT CONTRIBUTES TO THE THESIS!</p>
<p>I think it's a good idea to have some all-encompassing theme books for ammunition such as To Kill a Mockingbird or Great Gatsby</p>
<p>my teacher told us that books aren't the best way to go since they usually don't apply to the essays that usually argue something about contemporary american society.</p>
<p>for instance, i just had to write an essay, it was the 1999 argument essay about Americas "faith in the money." Basically it talks about the emphasism Americans place on money. I tried to support it with spending in stores suchas Abercrombie and Fitch, wealthy people throwing money around such as Donald Trump and businesses exploiting workers in order to obtain profits. I really was unable to expand or get really insightful with any of these, do you guys have any advice for that, or any better examples for such an essay?</p>
<p>Appeal to pathos, ethos, logos are the easiest for me.</p>
<p>The easiest for me is the author's tone and diction.</p>
<p>thats the rhetorical anaylsis, im talking about the "extent to which" "defend, argue, qualify" ones</p>
<p>The key to getting examples...prepare a list! Such as every book you've read since 9th grade, or other contemporary essays or magazines you've read. In addition, if you are in APUSH, that is a gold mine of examples. even concerns to moneyh can involve APUSH because it involves information up to year 2000.</p>