Types of Evidence
Gaipa Strategies
Key Terms
Rhetorical Appeals
Logical Fallacies
100
Plain and simple data using numbers to support the main point.
What is statistical evidence?
100
Knocking down a scholar's argument and replacing it with your own.
What is picking a fight?
100
Work of epistolary writing with both an intended, implicit audience and an explicit interlocutor.
What is an open letter?
100
The three rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
100
Urging to follow a course of action because a majority of people are doing so.
What is a bandwagon?
200
Specific individuals experiences to support a claim.
What is testimonial evidence?
200
Agreeing with a scholar and then extending their argument through a new subject.
What is piggybacking?
200
Other people relating to topic who may have an opinion on it.
What is audience?
200
An appeal to emotions.
What is pathos?
200
A counter argument that attacks the opponent's character.
What is ad-hominem?
300
Generalized observations and common knowledge of the world.
What is anecdotal evidence?
300
Picking a fight with everyone to show how the status quo is wrong.
What is taking on the establishment?
300
Member of audience directly addressed.
What is an interlocutor?
300
Appeal to logic and reason.
What is logos?
300
A breakdown in logical connection from point to point.
What is non-sequitur?
400
Using one piece of evidence to talk about another piece of evidence.
What is analogical evidence?
400
Agreeing with a scholar and identifying then solving a problem in their work.
What is leapfrogging?
400
To expose existing problems and provide or suggest a solution.
What is the purpose of an open letter?
400
Appeal to authority and credibility.
What is ethos?
400
The claim that the issue at hand is beyond argument.
What is dogmatism?
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