| | Using the Enthymeme as a Heuristic in Professional Writing Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | In their search for the enthymemic strategy that will convince the faculty, students are guided by certain restrictions: the assertion must lead readers to the policy; the assertion’s support must be related to it by an assumption acceptable to both writer and readers; and the support must make the assertion sufficiently convincing. |
| | Each term of the enthymeme must be adequately defined for the reader; the minor premise must be adequately developed with evidence; the assumption must be stated or easily inferred; and the resulting conclusion and the policy derived from it must be presented. |
| | Because writing is self-discovery—at least to the extent that it explicitly articulates alternatives that might otherwise remain inchoate in the mind—a writer who examines a context and develops an appropriate response gains satisfaction not only by completing the task but by formulating and presenting his or her attitude on a particular topic of some importance. |
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