Key Terms and Concepts
Questions:
- Logical fallacies (p. 121)
- Thesis (p. 128)
- Non-arguable (p. 129)
- Sufficiency (p. 127)
- Evidence (p. 126)
- Argument from value (p. 124)
- Relevance (p. 127)
- Finding claim
- Find information to argue claim
- Constructing valuable argument
- Don't argue about facts, opinions, or beliefs
- Fallacies of logic
- Fallacies of emotion/language
- Audience (background knowledge; attitude towards topic and author)
- You can analyze the advantages & disadvantages of a subject by drawing maps to help organize information
- When you choose a subject, use online directories to quickly review what you can learn
- Setting up a straw-man (making a position that opposes your own so simplistic that no one would likely identify)
- Argument from definition (p. 123)
Questions:
- How can we avoid/identify such fallacies in our paper?
- When writing an argumentative essay, do you show the other side or just prove your side of the argument?
- Does the Bandwagon fallacy have some instances where it can actually work as reasoning?
- In our conclusion, is it appropriate to utilize a 1st person anecdote?
- How many kinds of evidence can we use?
- What is a working outline and how can it help your writing?
- Run across an article that agrees with your claim, but then later disagree, then will I be allowed to use it and if so, to what extent?
- Do we have to use fallacies or is that optional?
- How do you make an attention grabbing title?