7632435795 | Second hand evidence | Evidence accesss through research, veading, investigation. | 0 | |
7632435796 | The classical model | Introduction, narration, confirmation, refutation, conclusion. | 1 | |
7632435797 | Introduction (exordium) | Draw readers in by using ethos | 2 | |
7632435798 | Narration (narraratio) | Narration is present to "so what?" Appeals to logos and pathos | 3 | |
7632435799 | Confirmation (confirmation) | The meat of your argument/ longest part. Appeals to logos. | 4 | |
7632435800 | refutation (refutatio) | Addresses the counter argument. Appeals to logos. | 5 | |
7632435801 | Conclusion (peroration) | Brings ideas together, answers "so what?", memorable. Appeals to pathos and reminds readers of ethos. | 6 | |
7632435802 | Evidence | Relevant, accurate, sufficient, support | 7 | |
7632435803 | Audience | Mindset | 8 | |
7632435804 | First hand evidence | Personal | 9 | |
7632435805 | Toulmin | Evidence, claim, qualifier, reservation, warrant | 10 | |
7632435806 | open thesis | does not list all the points the writer intends to cover in an essay | 11 | |
7632435807 | closed thesis | A sentence or sentences that directly state what the topics in your paper are going to be | 12 | |
7632435808 | Counter thesis | offer some reasoning, using evidence, that suggests why the thesis is true. | 13 | |
7632435809 | Visual | Photographs/ cartoons | 14 | |
7632435810 | Bandwagon | Doing something just because everyone else is doing it | 15 | |
7632435811 | circular reasoning | the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence | 16 | |
7632435812 | ad hominem | Personal attack | 17 | |
7632435813 | Faulty Analogy | occurs when an analogy compares two things that are not comparable | 18 | |
7632435814 | False Dilemma | A fallacy where the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices | 19 | |
7632435815 | Faulty Causality | assuming that because one thing follows another it was caused by the other. | 20 | |
7632435816 | straw man argument | a weak interpretation of someone else's argument in order to make it easier to refute | 21 | |
7632435817 | Argument from Authority | Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument (Adam Levine) | 22 | |
7632435818 | claim of value | argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong | 23 | |
7632435819 | claim of fact | asserts that something is true or not true | 24 | |
7632435820 | claim of policy | proposes a change | 25 |
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