ENGL 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: False Dilemma, Childhood Obesity, Confirmation Bias
24 Feb 2017
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Rhetoric the art or skill of speaking or writing formally & effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people. Thesis statement statement or need and position. Argument opposed to your position (refutations and counterarguments) Well established by long-standing consensus (a judgment call ) Ethos appeal to authority, such as the reputation of the source of the evidence being used in the argument. Pathos appeal to emotion, by including evidence based on values such as love, family and patriotism. Logos appeal to facts, as in do the math and using empirical evidence from data sets. Our perception of art no longer exists as it once did. Things to avoid (you don"t know everything) How the world influences books & how books influence the world. Iteration the repetition of a process of utterance. A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explains.
