Rhetorical Skills
This "shape" refers to critical thinking and writing skills
What is the rhetorical triangle?
The number of words needed for this paper.
What is 1500 -2000 words?
This activity was rated by most students as the most helpful to their writing processes!
What is Writer's Workshop?
This fallacy relies on personal attacks rather than evidence to attempt to persuade its audience.
What is Ad Hominem?
The name of Prof Vanderlip's dog.
Who is Rodeo?
This is the appeal to emotions.
What is pathos?
The number of sources required for this paper.
What is 6-7 sources?
This activity used a Taylor Swift feud to demonstrate a part of a research argument.
What is Diss Tracks / Refutation Activity?
This fallacy attacks a different subject rather than the subject being discussed.
What is the Straw Man Fallacy?
Prof Vanderlip's favorite wrestler.
Who is the Undertaker?
This is the appeal to logic.
What is logos?
This is a specific type of conclusion to follow the more traditional conclusion.
This activity occurred weekly online and occasionally in class.
What are journals?
This fallacy presents two extremes rather than a more comprehensive view of the argument.
What is the False Dichotomy Fallacy?
The degree Prof Vanderlip is currently pursuing.
What is a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature?
This is the appeal to credibility.
What is ethos?
This type of argument includes a solution.
What is a proposal argument?
This project started out the semester and required you to pitch an idea.
What is the research proposal?
This fallacy assumes that a certain course of action will necessarily lead to a chain of future events.
What is the Slippery Slope Fallacy?
Prof Vanderlip's pronouns.
What is she/they?
This refers to the timeliness of an argument.
What is kairos?
This part of the argument should strengthen your stance while including evidence from the other side of the argument.
What is the counter-argument/ refutation?
This activity required you to consider different modes.
What is multimodal writing?
This fallacy is the misuse of an authority's opinion to support an argument.
What is the Appeal to Authority fallacy?
Prof. Vanderlip's home state.
What is Michigan?