Each group must post below a response to the two following questions:
- What is Cohen’s stance towards his audience? Explain in a few sentences.
- What is Cohen’s stance towards his topic? Explain in a few sentences.
College Writing 1: Monsters and/in Culture | Spring 2018
A COURSE SITE FOR ENGLISH 110, SECTIONS 3 & 26 | Professor Christopher Williams
We felt his stance toward his topic is very argumentative whereas he recognizes that his audience can have different viewpoints, but he leaves no room for people to disagree. He argues enough to be fighting for his topic.
His stance toward his audience is that he is against them because he is fighting to show an idea, so broad like “monsters” can be revolutionized to an audience who might not believe an idea can be recreated.
Group 5
1. Cohen is confident with his topic , because he can totally understand those example he used, he think those can support his topic.
2. Cohen is speaking towards people who are in same level as him, so he doesn’t really explain his topic or statement but assume all of his audiences to know the topic before read this essay
group 1
agree
Confirmed
to audience:He tries to share out his idea and belief about the origin form of monsters, he challenged the traditional way that people think about monsters and tried to explain the monsters origins in a logical and understandable way to the audience.
to topic:He tries to explain the relationship between the monsters and cultures clearly.
Cohen regards his audience as his colleagues and shows them respect when he is addressing his ideas. He uses specialized terms from the latin and french language trusting that his intended audience can understand it. Because he is the Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, he seems very familiar with the topic his is presenting, you can also see this in the use of evidence from a lot of different sources.
yes
What we believe is Cohen’s stance towards his audience is, that he is trying to persuade his audience to believe in his point of view on the topic. He uses many different examples to explain what he is trying to persuade his audience. His attitude towards the audience is that he is trying to get his audience to understand his views on “cultures through the monsters they bear”, because not all of the audience may agree with Cohen’s beliefs pertaining to this topic.
What we believe is Cohen’s stance towards his topic is, that he elaborates on the topic and uses exceptional vocabulary because the topic in which he is discussing is not a broad topic, but an advanced topic. The topic in which Cohen is trying to elaborate on is very advanced so then Cohen must take on this topic in an orderly fashion, and he must use advanced terminology and elaboration on the topic, because the topic is not broad and must be talked about on a deeper and more elaborate level.
The author stance toward topic is that he is trying to argue with other opinions. Cohen uses a lot of facts, logical examples to explain his opinions rather than relying on his own experiences or readers’ feeling because he wants to use the most persuasive and convincing ways to persuade his readers. Therefore, the possible audience of Cohen might be people who have a same academic level with Cohen, such as his colleagues, historians, or people who work on literature.
Cohen’s stance towards his audience is that he is trying to persuade his audience to believe in his point. His attitude towards the audience is that he is trying to get his audience to understand his views on “cultures through the monsters they bear” He also mentions his colleagues while addressing his ideas. He gives facts and resoning to support his.
Cohen’s stance towards his topic is that he elaborates on the topic because the topic is not very board but the topic is something which needs to be talked about deeply and more elaborately.
The author uses LOGOS and ETHOS to show that he is very familiar with this topic.He uses facts and some specialized terminology to convince his audience, because he already assume that his audience know about those terms.
Cohen’s intended audience is his colleagues in the same fields as he is in. He tries to persuade his audience by using historical evidence and specialized language to prove his current stance on the study of culture.
He also using his credibility as an academic to bring merit to his argument. He trusts that his audience can understand his language and that they will respect him back because they see him on their level.