《新编英语教程》课件-第五册-5.9 Where Is the News Leading us.ppt

Text II: Should the Press be Human? Organization of the text Part I: (Para 1): Introducing the topic A hypothesis concerning the action of the photographer who shot the picture of the death of Oswald in the assassination case of J. F. Kenney. Organization of the text Part 2 (Para2–4): What a journalist should do when facing the dilemma in work. Para 2: Journalists’ professional ethic vs. their cold-bloodedness. (Development pattern: the thesis statement + illustrations of a photographer in India and a soundman in Nigeria.) Organization of the text Para 3: A dilemma of journalists: to join in and take sides or to be absolutely objective. Para 4: The guidelines of the profession of journalism. Organization of the text Part Three (Para 5 –7) Further argument: Although journalists should try hard to fulfill their duty, there should be some point where they should behave as a human being. Organization of the text Para 5: The case of a birdman accident in which a journalist who behaved inhuman. (“But it leaves out a lot” i.e. it is more than that.) Organization of the text Para 6: When our professional ethic is in conflict with other things, we should try to stick to it. Organization of the text Para 7: In any profession, there may be something more important than just sticking to professional ethic. Organization of the text Part 4 ( Para 8): The conclusion The author presents her thesis statement explicitly, i.e. what I think a news man should do. Rhetorical focus Sliding Scale Persuasion ↑ Argumentation? Rhetorical focus Persuasion and argumentation are used almost interchangeably and we can hardly have one without the other. Rhetorical focus The present author not only handles her reasoning by using examples to prove that what she says (i.e. the behavior on the part of the journalists