Precis II Writing one of these takes practice Here is our elevated round two When you see a pizza delivery person what do you think Is she working for gas money Or is she struggling to support three kids and ID: 193509
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Rhetorical Precis II
Writing one of these takes practice. Here is our elevated round two. Slide2
When you see a pizza delivery person, what do you think? Slide3
Is she working for gas money?Slide4
Or is she struggling to support three kids and pay
the rent
?Slide5
Is he saving for a ski trip with his buddies?Slide6
Or is he trying to make enough money to pay medical expenses for his dying wife?Slide7
Is the delivery person driving a fun company car?Slide8
Or must he use his own car--leaving his wife to catch the bus home from her job?Slide9
Thousands of unemployed wait in lines for buses to a job fair.
Not all of them will find the job of their dreams--Some of them will become "the pizza dude."Slide10
Rhetorical Precis: Step #1
Observing the Author’s Work
Listen to audio version of Sarah Adam's essay;
follow
along with your copy of the
essay
.Slide11
Rhetorical Precis: Step #1
Observing the Author’s Work
First lets notice the
publishing
information
. This will help use understand the audience later on.
From
This
I
Believe Essay Series*
as heard on NPR*
Published on the NPR {
This I Believe Website}
by Sarah Adams “Be
Cool to the Pizza
Dude”Slide12
Rhetorical Precis: Step #1
Observing the Author’s Work
Look over your copy of the essay, identifying (and highlighting)what you think are Adam's salient
*
points
. Especially notice elements of the RP.Slide13
Rhetorical Precis: Step #1
Observing the Author’s Work
“Be
Cool to the Pizza
Dude” Part 1
If I have one operating
philosophy*
about life it is this: “Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it’s good luck.” Four principles guide the pizza dude philosophy.
Principle 1: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in
humility
*
and forgiveness. I let him cut me off in traffic, let him safely hit the exit ramp from the left lane, let him forget to use his blinker without extending any of my digits out the window or towards my horn because there should be one moment in my harried life when a car may
encroach
*
or cut off or pass and I let it go. Sometimes when I have become so certain of my ownership of my lane, daring anyone to challenge me, the pizza dude speeds by me in his rusted
Chevette
. His pizza light atop his car glowing like a
beacon
*
reminds me to check myself as I flow through the world. After all, the dude is delivering pizza to young and old, families and singletons, gays and straights, blacks, whites and browns, rich and poor, vegetarians and meat lovers alike. As he journeys, I give safe passage, practice restraint, show courtesy, and contain my anger.
Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy. Let’s face it: We’ve all taken jobs just to have a job because some money is better than none. I’ve held an assortment of these jobs and was grateful for the paycheck that meant I didn’t have to share my Cheerios with my cats. In the big pizza wheel of life, sometimes you’re the hot bubbly cheese and sometimes you’re the burnt crust
.*
It’s good to remember the
fickle
*
spinning of that wheel.Slide14
Rhetorical Precis: Step #1
Observing the Author’s Work
“Be
Cool to the Pizza
Dude” Part 2
Principle
3: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in honor and it reminds me to honor honest work. Let me tell you something about these dudes: They never took over a company and, as CEO, artificially inflated the value of the stock and cashed out their own shares, bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy, resulting in 20,000 people losing their jobs while the CEO builds a home the size of a luxury hotel. Rather, the dudes sleep the sleep of the just.
Principle 4: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in equality. My measurement as a human being, my worth, is the pride I take in performing my job — any job — and the respect with which I treat others. I am the equal of the world not because of the car I drive, the size of the TV I own, the weight I can bench press, or the calculus equations I can solve. I am the equal to all I meet because of the kindness in my heart. And it all starts here — with the pizza delivery dude.
Tip him well, friends and brethren, for that which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.
Sarah
Adams has held a number of jobs in her life, including telemarketer, factory worker, hotel clerk and flower shop cashier, but she has never delivered pizzas. Born in Connecticut and raised in Wisconsin, Adams now lives in Washington where she is an English Professor at Olympic Community College.Slide15
Step #2
Your
verison
. Consider this step like a test, since you will have a test just like this later.
Type your
precis
here…you can delete the lines if you want to
Rhetorical Précis Sentence Starters
Sentence One (What?)
________________________________ in the ___________________________, _________________________,
(Author)
(A)
(
Title)
______________________________________ that ________________________________________________
(
B)
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Sentence Two (How?)
______________________________ supports his/her ___________________ by ________________________(Author’s Last Name) (
B
)
(
C)____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sentence Three (Why?) The author’s purpose is to
_________________________________________________________________________________________
(D)
________________________________ in order to / so that ________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Sentence Four (To Whom?)
The author writes in a __________________________tone for ________________________________________
(E)
(audience
)Slide16
PauseHow well do you think you did writing your
Precis
? What steps/sentences/concepts do you still struggle with? If Ms. Reed had to grade you now, what do you think you would earn?Slide17
Rhetorical Precis: Step #3
Observing a Model
Using your
précis model
as a guide, mark the passage to identify the specific elements of the précis, such as
author's name and rhetorically accurate verbs
that introduce the
claim/thesis
, etc.Slide18
Rhetorical Precis: Step #3
Observing a Model
Sarah Adams in “Be Cool To The Pizza Dude” (2005) asserts that one should be cool to the pizza dude. Adams supports this claim with four points, the first is that being cool to the pizza dude encourages humility and forgiveness, the she states that it is a “practice in empathy,” then she says that honoring the pizza dude in turn forces us to honor honest work, and finally that kindness to the pizza dude makes us participate in
equality
.
Her purpose in this essay is to show and explain the benefits of being cool to the pizza dude in order to encourage the listener to be more empathetic to the world as a whole; the pizza dude is a stand in for everyone. Her audience is listeners to NPR, who are highly educated, but need to be reminded to be more empathetic; they will find her humorous metaphor of the pizza dude entertaining. Slide19
PauseHow well did you judge your
precis
? Were you right about difficult areas? What did you have to change in your
precis
?Slide20
Step #4corrections
Type your corrected
precis
here.