What are you doing?
An organized argument or contest of ideas in which the participants discuss a topic from two opposing sides
What is a debate?
A claim that one event leads to another event and so on until we come to an awful or diasastrous conclusion.
A type of sentence that can be true or false and corresponds to the grammatical category of a “declarative sentence”
What is a statement?
Examples include: appeal to ignorance, false dilemma, and begging the question
What are logical fallacies?
Using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person
What is plagiarism?
Distorting or overstating an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack
What is strawman?
The organizing feature that describes the similarity among your main points
Examples include: Age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and religion
What are demographic characteristics?
Examining and looking at your audience first by its demographic characteristics and then by their internal psychological traits
What is audience analysis?
Attacking the person making the argument, rather than directly addressing issue
What is ad hominem?
In an argument, these provide a reason for thinking that the conclusion is true
What are premises?
Examples of symptoms include: Pounding heart, Clammy hands, Sweat, “Stomach butterflies,” Nausea, Shaking hands or legs, and Quivering voice
What is communication apprehension or stage fright?
The process of the listener or receiver understanding words and symbols and making meaning of them for themselves personally
What is decoding?
Making a claim that just because two events happen at the same time, that one must have caused the other.
What is false correlation?
A statement that is acting as both a premise and a conclusion
What is an intermediate conclusion?
For example:
Premise
Premise
Therefore, conclusion
Changing how you label the physiological responses you will experience. For example, making a conscious decision to think of public speaking as an exciting opportunity rather than an obligation you dread
What is cognitive restructuring?
An attempt to redirect attention away from a relevant issue by introducing another, irrelevant issue
The subjective or personal meaning the word evokes in people together or individually
What is the connotation?
Examples include: since, because, for, as, given that, and for the reason that
What are premise indicators?