To strengthen the argument of your standpoint.
What is the function of a claim
Factual information that helps the reader reach a conclusion and form an opinion about something.
What is the definition of evidence ?
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
What is the three types of appeal ?
A powerful way to appeal to readers, only when it's appropriate to your topic
What is Personal Experience?
What is h2o
water
A statement essentially arguable, but used as a primary point to support or prove an argument.
What is the definition of claim
Helps persuade the readers to support the authors argument
What is the function of evidence ?
Mistaken beliefs based on unsound arguments
What is fallacies ?
A teenager who wants a new cellular phone makes the following statement: Every other girl in her school has a cell phone. What type of literary device is this?
What is a Claim?
whats the order of colors in the rainbow
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
Support and prove your main argument.
What is the purpose of a claim
Print and electronic sources (websites, journals, and books)
What is an example of evidence ?
Moral expertise and knowledge
What is ethos ?
A commercial about a specific brand of toothpaste says that 4 out of 5 dentists use it.
What is an example of Ethos?
where did mr. holloway go to college
sewanee
Involves the assessment or judgment of the ideas in the original piece.
What is an evaluative claim
Sources that include original documents, photographs, and interviews. Sources present information that has already been processed or interpreted.
What is primary and secondary sources ?
Audience’s emotions- Intended to cause the audience to feel a certain way through metaphors and stories.
What is Pathos ?
In a courtroom, lawyers make an argument about whether someone is guilty or innocent, and they present _______-information to support their claim.
What is Evidence?
how many weeks are in a year
52
When you present a fact or a definition with a strong argument (used in research essays where you discover or establish a fact)
What is a Factual/Definitive Claim
The significance of the evidence and its function in your paper.
What is supporting your evidence ?
Formed by defining the evidence and then explaining how the evidence must logically prove that a certain conclusion must be true. Basis for scientific research, and they need to show the connection between evidence and a conclusion.
What is logos ?
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, look at this miserable man, in a wheelchair, unable to use his legs." This is an example of?
What is Appeal?
what is the host of jeopardy's real name
george alexader trebek