Fallacies and Biases
This bias is defined as wanting the status quo to continue and making choices that would ensure that rather than the best choices.
What is a bias of inertia?
This is the rhetorical appeal which might employ sympathy or consolation as a tool.
What is pathos?
Data, personal experiences, and anecdotes are examples of this compositional element.
What is evidence?
These are the steps you use, presenting evidence in a specific order, to create your argument.
What is a line of reasoning?
A joke, a fun fact, or a story are all examples of this element of composition, and the preference for one is an important element of style.
What are hooks?
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What is the total test time of the AP Composition Exam?
This is the bias which causes experts to undervalue their skill and novices to overvalue their skill.
What is the Dunning-Krueger effect?
Arguments about whether something is right or wrong belong to this rhetorical appeal.
What is ethos?
Though there are exceptions based on subject, in general, these should never be more than two to five years old.
What are sources?
This pre-writing technique is meant in part to help you organize your essay and line of reasoning.
What is outlining?
Similes, anecdotes, and analogies are all examples of this element of style.
What are comparisons?
There are forty five of these on the AP English Langauge and Composition exam.
What are multiple choice questions?
This fallacy occurs when a generally true rule is applied to an exceptional case where it is not applicable.
What is the fallacy of accident?
This element of rhetorical situation is not always apparent in a writer's thesis statement, but it can be deduced from it.
What is purpose?
Whereas widely accepted but specific truths such as 'Ariana Grande sang her own songs in the movie adaptation of "Wicked"' can be used as evidence, these statements cannot.
What are generic/vague claims?
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What are disputed claims?
This should always come at the end of your essay to remind the reader of the general points made since most people remeber the first and last things they heard/read of a given chunk of information.
What is a review?
The use of neutral, academic language to appeal to logos is a part of what style?
What is academic diction? (or: formal, scientific, etc.)
Forty minutes is the recommended time to both read the source and write your response to the prompt for this question.
What is the second free response question or the rhetorical analysis question?
An example of this fallacy might be: Well, they misspelled 'shark' so why would you believe them?
What is an Ad Hominem fallacy?
If you claim is your rhetorical goal, then this aspect of the rhetorical situation is the greater ongoing conversation that claim is a part of.
What is context?
These are various systems by which citations are governed. They give citations a consistent and predictable form.
What are sitation styles?
These help the reader to unconsciously understand your evidence and line of reasoning because they are generally accepted form of organization.
What are conventions?
Mr. Robertson has repeatedly said that, when it comes to composition, that everything you do in writing a paper must be this.
What is a conscious choice?
This point is earned through the discussion of the greater rhetorical situation or the context of the argument you are making.
What is the sophistication point?
An example of this fallacy might bew: Ariana Grane is a star. A star is a giant ball of burning gas. Therefore, Ariana Grande is a giant ball of brning gas.
What is a fallacy of equivocation?
This format of essay requires the writer to analyze and deconstruct another writer's whole rhetorical situation not just their message.
What is a rhetorical analysis essay?
Whereas data and statistics can never be be used as evidence without research or a citation of the research, these comparisons can unless you got it from someone else's work.
What are anecdotes/analogies?
Mr. Robertson repeatedly stressed the lesson that conventions are important not just because they are comforting to the readers, but they can also lend strategic emphasis to a point by doing this.
What is breaking the rule/conventions?
This is casual and uses a lot of rambling stories and funny anecdotes. Ethos and Logos are employed strategically so as to not overemphasize them. Pathos is used with care since the audience is young and impressionable. There is an expectation that the audience will discipline itself, but use of a booming voice to draw attention is common.
What is Mr. Robertson's teaching style?
This technique is used by reading the question first and then looking quickly through the text for keywords rather than reading the whole thing.
What is skimming or scanning?