Day 3
English 101H, Section 1399
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For Today:
3. W 9/3
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TURN IN: Essay One — Concerning Taylor Swift.
READ: Hacker: Composing and Revising. How to Use this Book. Graff
& Birkenstein, They Say I Say, Preface, Introduction.
FOCUS: Argument: claim, evidence & inference. Trimble: finding an
argument.
Seating. Attendance.
Talk about and collect the first essay. Also collect Syllabus quiz.
Reminder: Turn-It-In. By twelve midnight. (Like Cinderella.)
Reminder: Library Workshop: sign up now-now-now. Space is limited.
Review: Hacker: Composing and Revising.
Review: Graff & Birkenstein, They Say I Say, Preface, Introduction.
Review: Essay structure and types of evidence.
Assign argumentative fallacies.
Explain the Word detective quiz.
For next class:
4. M 9/8
READ: Hacker: Academic Writing. From website: Paul Fussell: Thank
God for the Atom Bomb. Also, from class website: Robert P. Newman:
Hiroshima and the Trashing of Henry Stimson.
FOCUS: What constitute fair argument? Argument: fallacies. Prewriting steps. Informed reading. Discuss Fussell article.
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Latin terms for parts of an argument:
Exordium
introduction.
Narratio
statement of the case.
Divisio
outline of the points of the argument.
Confirmatio proof of the case.
Confutatio
refutation of opposing arguments.
Peroratio
conclusion.
Word Detective:
1. I gated out of P-Bay last week. I was a PAL with two dirty bottles. Did a bullet
for a sales beef before that.
2. Man is gifted with pity and other kindly feelings; he has also the power of
preventing many kinds of suffering. I conceive it to fall well within his province
to replace Natural Selection by other processes that are more merciful.
3. When the second of her two children turned thirteen, my sister decided that it
finally was time to let their membership lapse in two familiar family haunts: the
science museum and the zoo. These were kiddie places, she told me. Her
children now had more mature tastes. They liked refined forms of
entertainment—art museums, the theatre, ballet.
4. Your package includes two F-15s high in the box with a Spooky down low and a
stinger on a G-hawk. B of the Fifth is on short string if you screw the pooch.
5. His mind was great and powerful, without being of the first order; his penetration
strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he
saw, no judgment was ever sounder.
6. Or ever the silver lace be taken away, or the gold band be broke, or the pot broke
at the well and the wheel upon the cistern, then shall the dust be turned again unto
the earth from whence it came, and the spirit shall return to God which gave it.
All is but vanity saith the preacher, all is but plain vanity.
7. There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it;
but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on
principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business
principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
Analyze these short passages and determine who wrote them. Be as specific as
you can. If you can identify an author, do so. If not, try and surmise their gender, the era
in which they wrote, their class, nationality, job description, politics, and other attributes.
After writing down your answer to at each one, choose one passage and write a
short essay (about one page) describing how you came to your conclusion. Be specific
and detailed.
You may use a dictionary for this exercise. You may not use the Internet.
Fallacies to Assign:
1. Slippery Slope.
2. Hasty Generalization.
3. Equivocation.
4. Post Hoc.
5. Begging the Question.
6. Circular Reasoning.
7. Either Or Fallacy.
8. Red Herring.
9. Straw Man.
10. Moral Equivalence.
11. Ad Hominem.
12. Appeal to Tradition and Faith.
13. Bandwagon Fallacy.
14. Appeal to Consequences.
15. Non Sequitur.
16. No True Christian Fallacy.
17. Two Wrongs Make a Right
18. Appeal to Ignorance.
19. Argument from Authority.
20. Argumentum ad Baculum.
21. Argumentum ad Populum.
22. Biased Sample.
23. Appeal to Closure.
24. Argumentum ex Silentio.
Be prepared to present, in one minute, a definition of the fallacy and one or two clear,
memorable examples of the fallacy that your classmates can understand. Remember, for
that one minute, you will be teaching the class.