A Note on Absences
Narrative Essay:
2 or less absences:
3 or more absences
Research Essay
2 or less absences
3 or more absences
& regular late/leave early
135.88/150
129.6/150
90.50%
86.4%
168.16/200
84%
154.33/200
77%
Why Bother With Logic cont.
Logical Fallacies
What are Logical Fallacies?
“A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning.
This differs from a factual error, which is simply
being wrong about the facts. To be more specific, a
fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given
for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree
of support.”
The Nizkor Project
Types of logical fallacies
Jumping on the bandwagon: Using the term everyone in your argument
when a writer makes and argument. Often many people will agree with
your argument, but seldom will everyone. The only way to prove that
everyone agrees with you is to have asked everyone.
Everyone in the United States is tired of gun violence and it is time to
enact laws to stop it
Personal Attack: Instead of attacking the reasoning the writer attacks the
person behind the claim.
People who support gun control are stupid.
Slippery Slope: This fallacy claims that one action will lead to a whole series
of undesirable events – without offering any proof. When you see a claim
where the outcomes seems to be a stretch from the beginning ask yourself,
“Will this first action definitely lead to the next?”
If everyone carried a gun, there would be no more mass shootings.
Emotive Language: This fallacy appeals to the readers emotions without
supporting the argument
Can you imagine how the parents of the children from Sandy Hook feel
waking up every day without their child?
Either or Thinking: There are often more than two outcomes to an argument.
When you see an either/or statement in your reading ask yourself, are there
really only two possible outcomes? When you are writing, remember that
there are really many possible outcomes to an argument.
Either we ban all gun sales now or mentally ill people will continue to
shoot school children.
Hasty Generalizations: This is jumping to conclusions.
If we enact tougher gun control laws there will be no more violence in
schools.
 Red Herring: This fallacy uses a distraction to get the reader to think
about something other than the argument.
Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech
Sunday Nov 23 9:00 – optional draft due
Tuesday Nov 25 – Peer Review
Thursday Nov 27 – Thanksgiving
Friday Nov 28 – 9:00 Final Argument Paper
Due
The last 2 weeks of class we will be working on
Revising essays for our portfolios & prep. for
The final which will be a mock WPST