1. Comp 3, LAP 3, Day 6 Note-Taking Strategies Types of Arguments
Begin Logical Fallacies information

2. Homework Start taking notes from your sources for your paper
You MUST bring your Writer’s Inc book to the next two classes!
Web eval form due today via edline by 3 pm.
Sample essay open lab is due G day.
Vocab Unit 11 quiz due K day.

3. Note-Taking Strategies
What are some methods you use when taking notes?

4. Why Take Notes?
-Helps you absorb and analyze information -Helps you find information quickly and efficiently -Helps you categorize and narrow down information from reading

5. What Information are We Looking For?
We’re trying to back up each of our claims with facts from a variety of sources.
Keep your claims in mind while you’re taking notes.

6. Note Taking Strategies
Flashcards– each card contains a quote from a source.
Make sure you note what source and page each quote came from.
Tip: try using a different color of note card for each source.
It’s a good idea to write the topic of the quote on the top of the note card.
Effects
“Global warming will cause a rise in sea levels” (Gore 30).

7. Note Taking Strategies
Sort by Source: Use separate pieces of paper for each source
Go through the source chronologically, writing down quotes and facts that may be useful.
Note the page numbers of your information.

8. Note Taking Strategies
Sort by Claim: Use a separate piece of paper for each claim you are trying to prove.
Write down facts and quotes that prove each claim on the appropriate sheet of paper.
Be sure to keep track of the source and page number of each fact or quote.
Tip: Try color coding your sources by ink color or highlighting.

9. Note Taking Strategies
The Cornell System: Write down key terms in one column, and quotes, statistics, etc. in the other column.
Remember to still note page numbers and sources.

10. Types of Arguments Logos: Appeal based on logic or reason
Ethos: Appeal based on the character of the speaker (when the speaker has no special authority or knowledge about the subject)
Pathos: Appeal based on emotion

11. Apply what you learned: Recognizing Types of Arguments in Advertising.
Logos: Appeals to your logical side– presents facts, statistics, backs up their argument.
Ethos: Relies on a “reliable” spokesman. Celebrity endorsements, politicians, “expert” advice.
Pathos: Working with emotions; making you feel popular, sad, anxious, excited, etc.

12. Logos? Ethos? Pathos? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtP-S9OS0o0
Don’t know if these links will still work– it’s a link to the covergirl website, and the other two are youtube commercials– I used one for Mac’s and one for PC’s– we go through and try to evaluate what types of arguments are present

13. Write at least 5 sentences
Journal: Which of the three types of arguments—Logos, Ethos, and Pathos--seems to be the most reliable? Why? Consider what would be the strongest type of argument to use in your paper.
Write at least 5 sentences

14. If you answered Logos…You are Correct!
The strongest arguments are those that use logic with facts to back up the claims.
While advertisements may try to focus on Ethos and Pathos, Logos always presents a stronger case since it is supported with facts and opinions.
This is especially true in your paper– it takes facts and logic to win your audience over!

15. Types of Evidence Expert Testimony Facts and Statistics Analogies
Personal Experiences, Examples, and Anecdotes

16. Expert Testimony
An "expert" can be an individual or a group, and they are generally seen as credible because of extraordinary study, professional experience, or personal experience. If your audience may not be familiar with your source's expertise, you may want to include a brief sentence or phrase to establish the expert's authority.

17. Facts and Statistics
Provide information about events that exist or have existed.
Can provide information about times, amounts, sizes, processes, relationships among groups, etc.

18. Analogies
An analogy is an extended comparison of two things (such as objects or actions).
The advantage of an analogy is that it can help make a complex, unfamiliar object/action more accessible by comparing it to something that is more easily understood by the audience.
Relating the human body's circulatory system to various sizes of roadways, for example, could help readers more clearly understand how blood flows through their bodies.

19. Personal Experience, Examples, and Anecdotes
Personal experiences can help you establish a close, concrete connection to the topic you're writing about.
Since your experience is limited, however, you should not rely too heavily on your own personal experience (or personal experiences of a friend or colleague) when trying to persuade others.
When combined with other types of evidence, personal experience can add a compelling dimension to your writing.
Like personal experience, concrete examples or stories about an event (anecdotes) can be used to help readers more clearly imagine the topic that you're addressing in your writing.

20. Argument Construction
In order to create a solid argument, we have to build it up with logical claims.
Claim+Claim+Claim+Claim= Argument
In order to create logical claims, we need reliable facts.
Fact+Fact+Fact= Claim
In your paper you will have to prove why your argument is correct using claims supported by facts. You will also prove why your opposition’s argument is incorrect.

21. Examples of solid arguments
Premise 1: Non-renewable resources do not exist in infinite supply.
Premise 2: Coal is a non-renewable resource.
From these two premises, only one logical conclusion is available:
Conclusion: Coal does not exist in infinite supply.
Example #2
Premise 1: All monkeys are primates.
Premise 2: All primates are mammals.
Premise 3: All mammals are vertebrate animals.
Conclusions: Monkeys are vertebrate animals.

22. Arguments and claims
Every essay has to be founded on solid arguments, but some are not so solid.
Example:
Premise 1: People with red hair are not good at checkers.
Premise 2: Bill has red hair.
Conclusion: Bill is not good at checkers.

23. Logical Fallacies– what are they?
Our arguments and claims need to be logical.
We learned about three types of arguments– logos, ethos, and pathos.
Logical fallacies are flaws that may occur in your claims.
You should learn what they are in order to avoid using logical fallacies in your own papers and to avoid being “taken in” by fallacious arguments.

24. Logical Fallacies
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We read through the first 5 of these and then fill out the first side of the logical fallacies worksheet. Then we read the second 5 and fill out the second side of the worksheet. This continues into day 7