It is using whatever means available to persuade, the art of persuasion.
or
The art of persuasion.
What is Rhetoric?
100
Fallacies are defects that weaken arguments.
It is an argument that uses poor reasoning, they are illogical.
What are fallacies?
100
Has a specific purpose
Should be easy to identify
Stands out and is easily interpreted
What is does a good thesis statement have?
100
Each essay should have exactly five paragraphs.
Don’t begin a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘because.’
Never include personal opinion.
Never use ‘I’ in essays
What are some strict rules about writing when first coming to college?
100
The best superhero in the world is.....
BATMAN! Yeah!
200
Ethos- The appeal to credibility
Logos- Appeal to logic
Pathos- Appeal to emotion
What are Aristotle's three appeals?
200
The arguer sets up a weak version of the opponent’s position and tries to score points by knocking it down.
What is the straw figure fallacy?
200
Large-scale
Small-scale
Editing
Proofreading
What are the steps in revision?
200
Citing your source in a footnote is an example of _____ citation.
What are Chicago citations?
200
The Final Portfolio is due...
Friday, May 1st before midnight.
300
An attempt to persuade with an appeal to timeliness
and
The suitable way of presenting something for a given circumstance.
What is Kairos and Decorum?
300
Partway through an argument, the arguer goes off on a tangent, raising a side issue that distracts the audience from what’s really at stake. Often, the arguer never returns to the original issue.
What is the red herring fallacy?
300
Find an issue with no easy solution
Find an issue that has many supporters on both sides of the issue.
Once you find your issue, you will either persuade your readers to one side of the problem or ____ your case with the goal of having your readers understand your position.
What is a good arguable claim?
300
Using first person pronouns like “I”, “we,” “me,” “us,” “my,” and “our”
What is first person writing?
300
Who are the hosts of the clips we use as examples in class?
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
400
Speaker, message, and audience.
or
Someone saying Something to Somebody else.
What are the three parts of the rhetorical triangle?
400
A statement that uses its own premise as proof.
What is begging the question (or assuming the premise) fallacy?
400
Playing devils advocate: This other side might say this but…
Taking their values into consideration in your writing but emphasizing your position
Using evidence to counter the opposition’s arguments
What are counter-arguments?
400
A figure of speech, an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
What are metaphors?
400
Who is Erim Gomez?
The fresh-water ecologist who talked about scientific writing.
500
In ______ _______, persuasion is seen as the result of not just presentation (form and style) but also content. While the term is modern this point of view is clearly represented in classical rhetoric, too. Think of it as the lens through which you see the world or a way to understand the world.
What is epistemic rhetoric?
500
Assuming that because B comes after A, A caused B.
What is post hoc (false cause) fallacy?
500
It discusses published information in a particular subject area, and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period. It gives a report more than an argument.