Day 5 • English 101 Section 1265
For Today:
5. W 9/19 Read to discuss: Caroline Bird, College Is a Waste of Time and Money and John Holt, How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading. (Thesis & support: making a case. Argument: claim, evidence & inference.)
Attendance. (Announce: No more late quizzes.)
Hand back in-class essays.
Collect Summaries and Tweets.
Discuss John Holt essay. Discuss Caroline Bird essay.
Field trip to Learning Center.
Next class:
6. M 9/24 Read to discuss: Bernard Levin: Quoting Shakespeare; Janet Kindler:
Vermeer’s Young Woman with a Water Pitcher: Layers of Paint and
Meaning; Helena Arabyan: The Power of Technology.
(Compare evidence, audience, & structure in the Caroline Bird, John Holt, Janet
Kindler and Helena Arabyan essays. Background on Jonathan Swift.)
Hacker: Academic Writing . Complete take home quiz.
Latin description of the structure of an academic essay:
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Exordium.
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Narratio.
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Divisio.
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Confirmation.
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Confutatio.
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Peroratio.
What kind of evidence does Holt use? How would you characterize it?
What kind of evidence does Caroline Bird use?
What kinds of evidence are there?
Examples of inferrence:
1. The toddler was asleep upstairs in her bed. Suddenly, I heard a loud thump and she began crying. I ran upstairs because I inferred that she fell out of bed.
2. In English 120, you cannot be promoted to English 101 unless you pass the final exam.
My classmate said he was going back to English 120 again. I know he got okay grades, so I inferred that he failed the final exam.
3. Because the famous basketball player was seen in a jewelry store, the tabloids inferred he was going to ask his rock star girlfriend to marry him.

Quiz: Academic Writing
(Print this page and fill in the blanks.)
Name:_____________________________________Date:_________________________
1. Briefly define exordium :______________________________________________
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2. 3. 4. Most of reasoning deals not in certainty but in probability. For a conclusion to be highly probable it must be based on evidence that is? (Three answers.)
2. __________________________________________.
3.__________________________________________.
4.__________________________________________.
5. Woman are bad bosses. Politicians are corrupt. Asian students are all intelligent.
These are all examples of stereotypes. Stereotypes are what type of logical fallacy?
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6. When a writer suggest there are only two alternatives, when in fact there are more, this is called a…?
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7. Emotional appeals are always unfair. True or False.
8. Violent crime is increasing. Therefore we should vigorously enforce the death penalty.
This is known as an argument with a missing claim. The Latin name for this fallacy is:
____________________________________________.
9. Whereas a summary most often answers the question of what a text says, an analysis looks at how a text makes its point. True or False.
10. Define annotate: _______________________________________________________
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