A Possible TOK connection.

Theory of Knowledge is a IB only subject that explores how knowledge is created and the different knowledge systems that humans have adopted. This is one of three cores in the IB however this core is a class we take. I really enjoy the classes as it has many elements of philosophy which is one of my favorite topics, I used to study before I came to LIS. I read books in arabic of famous philosophers in history including Socrates, Karl marx and many arabic philosophers.

We have read multiple Moira Donegan articles in class, I used one of those articles for my paper 1 #2 practice. As I was writing it in class and evaluating the stylistic choices used throughout the article a TOK question popped in to my head. I don’t know how good of question this might be but I had a discussion with Mr.Todd and he discussed how it could be used in a presentation. The question was “To what extent can a authors use of stylistic choices persuade the reader”. The article would be a real life situation as Moira Donegan uses stylistic choices like structure, irony, word choice, and tone to exploit emotion, set the attitude and so on in order to persuade her readers to whatever her point is, in the article it would be the oppression of women’s rights through the granting of fetal rights.