DAY 03 - CYCLE 02 - SEMESTER 02: 01-14-10

HANDOUTS FROM TODAY:

There were no handouts for today.

IN CLASS TODAY:

First, we resumed unit 7 in the Sentence Diagramming workbook.  Tricky stuff, but we did a few sentences together and you have answers to the rest.

Then we (barely) talked about the introduction to the Seagull Reader: Essays book and just tried to clarify the material covered by the introduction, which included some basic terms:

LOGOS: LOGICAL ARGUMENTS
Deductive
major premise
minor premise
conclusion
valid
sound
true
false
enthymemes

Inductive
sufficiently large
Accurate
Representative

Deductive Fallacies
Invalid
Non sequitur
Red herring
false-cause fallacy (post hoc, ergo propter hoc)
Begging the question
either-or fallacy

Inductive Fallacies
Hasty generalizations
Anecdotal evidence
Flase analogy
Special Pleading

ETHOS: ETHICAL ARGUMENTS
What defines them?
Ad hominem

PATHOS: PATHETIC ARGUMENTS
What defines them?
bandwagon
appeal to tradition
appeal to pity


CLASS NOTES:

No notes today.

HOMEWORK:
Review the introductory essay to make sure you understand its elements.  We will cover it in depth on Monday.  Really.  Even if I have to use a cattle prod. You will have a quiz on Tuesday on the material.  And then we will start judging the arguments of others: wheeeeee!  For Tuesday, read "Coversational Styles" and annotate by Deborah Tannen on page 253 of the Seagull Reader: Essays book (if you are using the first edition, the essay appears on 231). Try to determine areas of strength and weakness in her argument using the information you learned in the introduction.