Writing 150
Terms
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- Ad Hominem
- Personal Attack on someone
- Guilt by association
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attack on someones credibility based on association with another group
- Poisoning the well
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presenting an argument in a biased way
- False Authority
- Listening to a person who is popular rather than knowledgable
- Pathos
- Appeals to emotion
- Methods for establishing pathos
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concrete examples
word choice - Ad populum
- Bandwagon appeal
- Threat/Reward
- Appeal to force
- Logos
- Logical argument
- Critical Thinking
- Judge for ourselves the rightness of a claim
- Cultural Literacy
- Awareness of common knowledge of a community of educated people
- Strategies for logical appeal
- Relevance, Acceptability, Suffeciency, Accountablilty
- Begging the question
- Reason=Reason
- Complex Question
- A question with two answers
- Equivocation
- A word with two definitions
- Hasty/Sweeping Generalization
- Jumping to conclusion
- False analogy
- Differences outweigh the similarities
- Post Hoc
- One thing causes another
- Oversimplification
- Reducing complex issues
- Stacking the deck
- Making the odds in your favor
- Slippery Slope
- One thing causes another which causes another
- Appeal to ignorance
- Supporting an argument falls on the person making it
- Non-Sequitur
- Doesn't follow logical connection
- False Dilemma
- Presenting the reader with two options
- strawperson
- oversimplified or overblown view of somebodies opinion
- STAR
- Sufficient, Typical, Accurate, Relevant
- 5 Canons of Rhetoric
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Invention
Arrangement
Style
Memory
Delivery - Figurative Language
- Analogy
- Topos
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PLace to find an argument
- Point First Paragraph
- The topic sentence goes at the beginning
- Style
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Clarity
Coherence
Conciseness
Voice
Delivery
Punctuation - Kronos
- Passage of time
- Kairos
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The opportune moment
- Life cycle of rhetoric
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Origin
Maturity
Disintigration
Deteoriation - Pisteis
- Means of persuasion, building the audiences trust
- Procatelepsis
- Seeing ones argument