ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Common Cold, Argument From Analogy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Hazel Atkins

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The best academic writing is opinionated, biased, manipulative, and convincing. Eliminate abstractions eliminate vague language, and imprecise terminology. Use airtight logic think of your writing as a kind of map, direct them to where you want them to go. Be the reader imagine what your reader is going to be thinking when they are going to read your paper. View the audience as a jury come to your writing with a certain amount of defensiveness, convince your audience. Don"t assume the audience already agrees with you. Deliberately narrow your audience craft your audience. Establish credibility and state your position show that your knowledgeable, show that your opinionated, tell the reader what you think. Back up your argument/hypothesis use evidence, don"t let your audience infer anything. Fallacies error in logic: hasty generalization deaths from drug overdoses in vancouver have doubled in the past three years.