Punctuation, Please!
This punctuation is used to end a sentence with.
What is a period?
This is a website where you can look at how to cite different things for your papers.
What is Purdue OWL?
This is the minimum page requirement for the Argumentation Essay.
What is four pages?
This fallacy occurs when someone assumes that one action will lead to another action (usually way off base).
What is the slippery slope fallacy?
In the film "Barbie" (Grets Gerwig, 2023), Margot Robbie plays the main character of the name of the film.
What is Barbie? (Films need to be in italics.)
This punctuation is used for a variety of things, including but not limited to:
1. Coordinating conjunctions
2. Setting off an independent/dependent clause or vice versa.
What is a comma?
This is a symbol used to put your cited information inside of this container. Hint: You put the author and page number or the name of the article title in these symbols.
What are parenthesis?
This is the due date of the Argumentation Essay.
What is December 4th?
This fallacy occurs when someone attacks the character of a person/entity, rather than the actual argument itself.
What is the ad hominem fallacy?
All direct quotes that you pull from a source need to be in italics when quoting word to word verbatim.
What is quotation marks?
This punctuation mark omits a certain amount of text from a direct quotation or a paraphrase.
What are ellipses?
This is a formatting technique used for books, films, television shows, and music albums.
What is italics?
This is how many body paragraphs you need in support of your argument.
What is two body paragraphs?
This fallacy occurs when someone uses an expert to demonstrate their opinion, but this expert does NOT have the expertise in this argument/thinking.
What is the appeal to doubtful authority fallacy?
When you cite in-text from a journal article for the first time, you need to have the author and then the year in the parenthesis.
What is the page number?
This punctuation is used to join together two independent clauses into one cohesive sentence.
What is a semicolon?
This is one of the academic databases that Lourdes University has. (Hint: I demonstrated this to you in class!)
What is Discovery Service?
This is the point value of this essay.
What is 200 points?
This fallacy occurs when people think it is okay for someone to do the opposite of what they say/do because of the logic that people are not perfect?
What is the you also/tu quoque fallacy?
When there are no set page numbers from a journal article title, there is no need for an in-text citation.
What is putting the first few keywords in the article in parenthesis?
This punctuation mark demonstrates that you are listing or giving an idea to something.
What is a colon?
This is the correct formatting used for a journal article you find on an academic database.
What is:
Author(s). "Name of Article Title." Journal Article Name. vol. #, no. #, day month year, page length, Academic Database, URL or DOI, Access Date.
This rhetorical technique is used in a counterargument paragraph to support your argument even stronger.
What is a refute/rebuttal?
This fallacy occurs when there is some unrelated cause to something that happens.
What is the post hoc fallacy?
This is a type of direct quotation that needs to be formatted when there are five or more lines of text quoted word to word verbatim.
What are block quotations?