ENGL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Inductive Reasoning

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 101
• Professor: Robert Lucci

Document Summary

Try to show how one event brings about another. Arguments for an unexpected or surprising cause. How to argue that one event causes another. Describe each link in the causal chain. Infer a general conclusion based on a limited number of specific cases. Look for a common element, look for a single difference, look for correlations. Post hoc fallacy: mistakes sequence for cause. Hasty generalizations: when you make a generalization based on too few cases or too little consideration of alternative explanations. If author is not known: ( title of article ) (author 1 and author 2, page number) Title is centered, not bolded or underlined. Footnotes for something that doesn"t fit in the body of the paragraph. Block quotes no quotations at the beginning or end of block quote. More than 4 lines in original text.