ENG 100
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Reread, rethink and rewrite the text in bold on page 66
quoting material by Nancy Mairs, "On Being a
Cripple." taking on the voice of someone either
"crippled" or not, who uses I much less frequently than
Mairs does - perhaps not at all.
OR
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Reread, rethink, and rewrite the text in bold on page 6162 quoting the material "Here Comes theGroom" from a
personal, subjective viewpoint, taking on the voice (the
character) of someone who is gay or has gay friends or
family members and using the pronoun I if appropriate.
Using your textbook, read Chapter Four,
“Arguments Based on Facts and Reason: Logos,”
pages 69-93. Mark the text and/or take notes as
you read. Complete Reading Response Journal.
1. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
2. Drunk drivers are involved in more than 50
percent of traffic deaths.
3. DNA tests of skin found under the victim’s
fingernails suggest that the defendant was
responsible for the assault.
1. Polls suggest that a slim majority of Americans favor
a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex
marriage.
2. A psychologist testified that teenage violence could
not be blamed on video games?
3. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
1. History proves that cutting tax rates increases
government revenues because people work harder
when they can deep more of what they earn.
2. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
3. Air bags ought to be removed from vehicles because
they can kill young children and small-frame adults.
Take a look at comedian Rita Rudner's fairly complicated
enthymematic argument:
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the
doctor's office was full of portraits of Picasso.
Working with the other students in your row (front of row
to back), analyze this enthymeme and answer the
following questions:
1. What information is left implicit?
2. What inference or conclusion does Rudner ask us to
draw from this enthymeme?
3. What causes the humor in this statement?
Using your textbook, read Chapter Seventeen,
“Fallacies of Argument,” pages 515-534. Mark the
text and/or take notes as you read. Complete
Reading Response Journal.
What do you know about this
slogan?
“Leave no child
behind.”
(George Bush
policy and
slogan)
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
What do you know about this
slogan?
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
“It’s the economy,
stupid.”
(sign on the wall at
Bill Clinton’s
campaign
headquarters)
What do you know about this
slogan?
“Nixon’s the
one.”
(campaign
slogan)
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
What do you know about this
slogan?
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
“Remember
the Alamo.”
(battle cry)
What do you know about this
slogan?
“Make love,
not war.”
(antiwar slogan
during the
Vietnam War)
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
What do you know about this
slogan?
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
“A chicken in
every pot.”
(campaign
slogan)
What do you know about this
slogan?
“No taxation
 Is it a fallacy?
without
 Which one?
representation.”
(American
colonial slogan)
What do you know about this
slogan?
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
“Loose lips
sink ships.”
(slogan from
World War II)
What do you know about this
slogan?
“Guns don’t kill,
people do.”
(NRA slogan)
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
What do you know about this
slogan?
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?
“If you can’t stand
the heat, get out
of the kitchen.”
(attributed to Harry
S. Truman)
What do you know about this
slogan?
“We are the ones
we’ve been
waiting for We
are the change
that we seek.”
(Obama campaign
statement)
 Is it a fallacy?
 Which one?