Point of View
Common Fallacies
The Writing Process (Pt 1)
The Writing Process (Pt 2)
Vocabulary
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The narrator's position in relation to the story being told.
What is point of view?
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Read the example and determine which fallacy it is. People who think abortion should be banned have no respect for the rights of women. They treat them as nothing but baby-making machines. That's wrong. Women must have the right to choose.
What is a Straw Man Fallacy? (You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.)
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This stage involves reviewing the topic/audience and all available evidence. It also involves determing your thesis statement and your supporting "big ideas." It involves organizing the points of your argument and your evidence.
What is stage 1, planning, in the writing process?
100
This stage involves making BIG PICTURE changes – changes to organization, supporting evidence, and cohesiveness of the argument (does the essay clearly prove the thesis statement?).
What is stage 3, revision, in the writing process?
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a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby. "My earliest hobby was dancing."
What is the meaning of "avocation"?
200
Read the passage below. Next, determine the point of view. The bell sounded and Lori heard the other girls stampede from the locker room. She finished burshing her hair and contemplated tying it up again. Now hanging past the top of her jeans, it tended to get caught on objects if she didn’t control the waves. She had maintained long hair since childhood, and despite her swimming, Lori entertained no thoughts of cutting it.
What is 3rd person point of view?
200
Read the example and determine which fallacy it is. "I think there is great merit in making the requirements stricter for the graduate students. I recommend that you support it, too. After all, we are in a budget crisis and we do not want our salaries affected."
What is a Red Herring Fallacy? (a purposeful change in topic to distract from the original topic. So if we have two people debating a particular statement one might change the topic seemingly to promote discussion but in fact it is a ploy to change the topic.)
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The main argument of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
200
This stage involves the close-up view of individual sentences and words--examining spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence variety. It needs to be done after you’ve made changes on a big scale: or else you could agonize over a perfect sentence, only to end up cutting that whole paragraph from your piece.
What is stage 4, editing, in the writing process?
200
a secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty. "The secret-police suspected me of disagreeing with the government."
What is the meaning of "gestapo"?
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Read the passage below. Next, determine the point of view. The dogs were still running at a lope, though we had come over seven miles, and I was full of them; my life was full of them. We were, as it happens sometimes, dancing with winter. I could not help smiling, just smiling idiotically at the grandness of it. Part of the chant of an ancient Navajo prayer rolled through my mind: Beauty above me. Beauty above me. Beauty below me. Beauty before me… That is how I felt then and frequently still feel when I am running with dogs.
What is 1st person point of view?
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Read the example and determine which fallacy it is. A prosecutor asks the judge to not admit the testimony of a burglar because burglars are not trustworthy.
What is an Argumentum ad hominem fallacy? (You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.)
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Introduction (thesis is the last sentence) Supporting Paragraphs (with evidence using Logos, Ethos, or Pathos). Conclusion (with a clinching statement).
What are the parts of an essay?
300
This stage occurs when you take your plan and make your first attempt at writing a draft of your essay/story.
What is stage 2, rough draft, of the writing process?
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the formation or presence of a blood clot within a blood vessel. "Blood clots formed in my heart after decades of eating fried oreos and fried pickles for lunch."
What is the meaning of "thrombosis"?
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Read the passage below. Next, determine the point of view. “Always keep sideways to your opponent,” Alek said, gently turning her. “That way, your chest presents the smallest possible target.” “Aye, the smallest possible target,” Deryn sighed. Alek stepped away and resumed his own pose, so that the tips of their swords almost touched. Deryn took a deep breath, but Alek didn’t move. Long seconds passed, the airship’s new engines thrumming beneath their feet, the clouds slipping slowly past overhead.
What is 3rd person point of view?
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Read the example and determine which fallacy it is. "Dear Friend, a man who has studied law to its highest degree is a brilliant lawyer, for a brilliant lawyer has studied law to its highest degree."
What is a Petito Principia fallacy? (Circular Reasoning-begging the question: the fallacy of assuming as a premiss a statement which has the same meaning as the conclusion.)
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This process is in separate stages because it helps you stay organized, and it also helps prevent you from wasting your time and energy. It focuses your efforts.
What is the importance of the separate stages in the writing process?
400
This stage occurs when you turn in your finished work to your boss, publisher, web designer, or teacher.
What is stage 5, publishing the final draft, in the writing process?
400
suitable to or characteristic of an infant; especially: very immature. "Bill's friend determined he was very immature after Bill started a food fight 3 Thursdays in a row."
What is the meaning of "infantile"?
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Read the passage below. Next, determine the point of view. There are six key decisions you make during your teen years that can make or break your future. So, choose wisely, and don’t blow it. If you do happen to blow it, however, it’s not the end of the world. Just get back on track quickly and start making smarter choices. Being a teen today is tougher than ever. While your grandparents may have had to walk uphill to school in the snow, you have a different set of challenges to navigate.
What is 2nd person point of view?
500
Read the example and determine which fallacy it is. The picture on Jim's old TV set goes out of focus. Jim goes over and strikes the TV soundly on the side and the picture goes back into focus. Jim tells his friend that hitting the TV fixed it.
What is a Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy? (This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that one event causes another simply because the proposed cause occurred before the proposed effect.)
500
1. plan 2. rough draft 3. Revision 4. Editing 5. Publish the Final Draft
What is the writing process?
500
1. Determine your topic. 2. Turn your topic into a question. 3. Answer your question (with your point of view on the topic). 4. Refine your answer into a working thesis statement: X is _____ because Y . . ..
What are the steps in developing a thesis statement?
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a false or deliberate misstatement; lie
What is the meaning of "prevarication"?
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