ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Rape Culture

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Jeanie Warnock

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Critical thinking, reading, writing: three levels of response (continued) Draw connections between ideas and information to make a new whole. Military culture and social context cases violent behaviour. That culture is very similar to rape culture (both give a rise to violence and abusive behaviour. Identify bias: do we have any clues as to the writers belief system, read to evaluate and to assess (beyond the lines) Arguments based on: logic, emotion, values, ethics. Inductive reasoning: draw conclusion from evidence: ex. Ways to evaluate your own arguments use of evidence and to evaluate others arguments: Is it qualified: check for logical fallacies, hasty generalizations. Deductive reasoning: reach a conclusion based on a series of premises called syllogism. Is the syllogism valid: are there premises plausible or supported through inductive reasoning, are there any unstated assumptions or premises, ex. Dogs grieve their owners death -> support premises with inductive reasoning. Dog displays sign of love: ex.