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Constructing Reasonable Arguments
Evaluating Arguments
Sentences
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60% of your grade.
What is the weight of your unit essays for grading?
100
This essay draft represents the best work the writer can do at this stage of the writing process. It is a complete argument with evidence presented and analyzed.
What is the middle draft?
100
The part of your essay in which you state your position and establish credibility.
What is an introduction?
100
This is the type of reasoning you're doing when you draw a conclusion from an array of facts.
What is inductive reasoning?
100
Short sentences can call things to attention, so you should use them strategically. When you have too many, writing seems choppy. This needs to be corrected. What is one way of doing that?
What is combining sentences?
200
The system of citations used in this course and some humanities courses.
What is MLA?
200
You are required to write one essay in which outside research is required. It is not a research paper, which is a report of gathered information. It is an essay in which you advance your thinking by entering into a conversation with other writers.
What is a documented essay?
200
Facts, statistics, examples, expert opinion, etc. that support your central claim.
What is evidence?
200
This points out a similarity between two things that are otherwise different. It can be an effective way of arguing a point.
What is an analogy?
200
This sentence structure is used when one idea in the sentence is more important than the other.
What is subordination?
300
The maximum number of classes that can be missed in this course.
What are five absences?
300
This is when you demonstrate thinking on the page, reflection, and discussion in your essay.
What is analysis?
300
Assumptions that you might share with your readers, who may or may not share your views.
What is common ground?
300
This is a fallacy in which you oversimplify cause and effect and believe that just because one vent follows another, the first is the cause of the second.
What is post hoc? (This comes from the Latin post hoc, ergo propter hoc, meaning "after this, therefore because of this.")
300
This type of grammatical structure draws special attention to paired ideas or to items in a series.
What is parallel structure?
400
The latest that work wil be accepted.
What is one week after the original due date?
400
This is also called a "thesis." It is your main point - a proposition or position that you take and then proceed to support with evidence.
What is a central claim?
400
This is an essay in which you take a stand on a debatable issue.
What is an argument?
400
Deductive reasoning can often be structured in a three-step argument - the major premise, the minor premise, the conclusion.
What is a syllogism?
400
If a writer had too many compound sentences or too many simple sentences, writing can seem monotonous or choppy. What strategy should writers use to avoid this?
What is using sentence variety?
500
It is located on the first floor of the library at the back of the reference section.
What is the Center for Writing Excellence?
500
It is located in the rear of Sprague library and is opened seven days per week to provide university students with writing consultants.
What is The Center for Writing Excellence?
500
The part of the essay in which you anticipate other points of view and positions.
What is your counterargument?
500
The Greek term for appealing to the emotions, which Aristotle lists as a legitimate argumentative tactic.
What is pathos?
500
The subject and the predicate (the verb and its modifiers) need to make sense together. If they do not, then what is it called?
What is faulty predication?