DAY 04 - CYCLE 02 - SEMESTER 02: 01-18-10

HANDOUTS FROM TODAY:

There were no handouts for today.

IN CLASS TODAY:

We began the day by diagramming the following sentence: Do you know your friend Adam's email address? Do you remember how? (HINT: There's an appositive!)

Then, we looked at a Power Point presentation starting to cover the following:

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

Inductive
sufficiently large
Accurate
Representative

Tomorrow, we will cover the following:
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:

You took your own, but check out the Power Point for more.

HOMEWORK:
Quiz on introductory material will be on Wednesday. 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.