Contemporary Design Issues

Contemporary Design Issues

Week 1
-Academic skills required in this Module.

In the first week of this semester for the module Contemporary Design Issues, an induction onto the module requirements, including for the submissions for blog seminar and assessment.

A short clear brief in form of presentation were held about the Academic writing skills which is necessary. This is due to the critical arguments around aspects or contemporary design.

A clear explanation of Rhetoric :
its a way of communication used to modify the perspective of others.

As the Rhetoric is defined, it stands by two which is the Author and the Audience.

• Author -is someone who creates communication to be delivered as information/facts

division of author :
1.informative-is to:
-inform
-describe
-define
-review
-notify
-instruct
-etc.. which relates all in way of informing


2.persuasive-is to :
-persuade
-convince
-influence
-argue
-recommend
-advocate
-etc..which relates all in way of justifying and strongly agree


Audience- is someone who receives the communication from author
division of audience :

1.passive-is to
-receive note
-feel assured
-be entertained
-enjoy
-hear advice
-etc..all that relates accepting information in any form

2.active-is to
-examine
-quantify
-assess
-interpret
-evaluate
-etc..all that relates of doubting due to confusion.

Argument

An argument must be in a debatable claim. Issues that not debatable are waste for an argument.

To make sure the argument is to be effective and reasonable, research is needed here to justify and interpret the argument. An argument not just to say about something that runs in our mind. It should be something that makes other to evaluate the point that we are arguing about. So, here is where types of research : Primary Research & Secondary Research is really important. 

Before proceeding an argument, some questions are important to be questioned by ourselves...

For organising the argument, the Toulmin Method is a basic and it follows as;

Claim, data, warrant, backing, counterclaim and rebuttal.

All this basic methods is to ensure the argument are sufficient according point by point for being debated.