Show:
Persuasion
Argument
Errors
From the Greek
Assortment
100
This is the act of stealing the words. images or ideas from a source and not citing it properly.
What is Plagiarism.
100
This is the driving central claim of your essay and the link that holds all of your paragraphs together.
What is the Thesis Statement.
100
These are the flaws in an argument that lead to incorrect conclusions based on wrong premises.
What is Logical Fallacies.
100
The Aristotelian, rhetorical appeal to logic.
What is Logos
100
This is what the abbreviation "MLA" represents.
What is Modern Language Association.
200
This is the act of putting someone else's ideas into your own words to avoid turing your paper into a string of quotations.
What is Paraphrasing.
200
These are the opposing viewpoints that you must include in your arguments in order to appear scholarly and well-informed.
What are Counterarguments.
200
An argument that a writer may respond to that has not been made by any named source or individual.
What is the Straw Man.
200
The rhetorical appeal to your character and credibility as an informed, credible writer.
What is Ethos
200
This is the title of your bibliography in MLA format.
What is Works Cited.
300
An assertion you make for a change you wish to see within a particular practice. It is a type of claim.
What is Claim of Policy.
300
This is a summary of no more than 250 words that describes the contents of a scholarly article.
What is the Abstract.
300
This is the erroneous argument that leads the writer or speaker to attack the person making a claim and not the claim itself.
What is the Ad Hominem attack.
300
This is the Aristotelian, rhetorical appeal to the emotions of your reader.
What is Pathos.
300
This psychologist of the 1960's studied human behavior and how willing people were to follow a variety of orders.
Who is Stanley Milgram.
400
This is the act of naming a source's main idea in your own words.
What is Summarizing.
400
This is the theory that helps to explain why rational people of goodwill might object to the arguments you offer in your essays.
What is the Reasonable Person Theory.
400
This error occurs when a writer asks the readers to accept an argument because it is popular or commonly accepted by others.
What is the Bandwagon Fallacy.
400
This is historically "the best available means of persuasion" at the given moment of an argument.
What is Rhetoric.
400
These were the studies that Milgram organized and investigated. The abbreviation for these studies is OTA.
What is Obedience to Authority.
500
This is the broad term for works that have a wide circulation and are typically designed for a general audience.
What is a Popluar Source.
500
This phrase explains that an article was examined and accepted by a group of experts who decide whether a scholarly source should be published.
What is "Peer Reviewed."
500
This is the error that occurs when an author assumes that what is true of a group must be true of every individual member of the group.
What is the Fallacy of Division.
500
Not quite Greek, but...this is an acquired societal belief that we are powerless to change anything or anyone, including ourselves.
What is Learned Helplessness.
500
This is the act of combining the arguments and viewpoints of several sources into one cohesive argument in one paper.
What is Synthesizing.