1.  Graded papers and grade reports o Keep the MLA Argument Paper to refer to the annotation to help you revise and edit your paper on your own.  How to evaluate arguments o Claim/Evidence/Assumption/Inference o Advertisements Advertisements  Logical Fallacy exercises p. 492  Introductions and opposing viewpoints p. 493  Argumentation-persuasion rough draft check and peer review  HW: Read “Entitlement” on p. 521 and provide an in- depth response to #4 on p. 524 to turn in. Bring clean argumentation-persuasion draft tomorrow.

2.  Claim – central assertion or proposition of author  Evidence – material offered to support a claim  Assumptions – belief, principle that writer takes for granted (explains why the evidence justifies the claim)  Inference – conclusion or judgment from premise

3. Claim Bose Noise Reduction headphones will not allow in any sound. Evidence Man in boat is paddling toward the big waterfall and will get really hurt or die if he goes over the edge, but his facial expression does not show he is aware of the danger. Assumptions Waterfalls are loud. If one knew he or she was that close to danger, he or she would be frantically paddling or making some effort to go the opposite direction. Inference The man cannot hear because the noise is reduced so much; the headphones must really work well.

4.  Choose one of the ads and complete a chart. On the back of the chart, identify if the evidence is based on logos, ethos, and pathos. Decide of there is a logical fallacy involved.  FALLACY - something that is believed to be true but is erroneous  Post hoc – erroneous cause/effect relationships  Non sequitur – drawing a conclusion with no logical connection to the evidence cited  Ad hominem – attacking a person instead of the issue/pt of view  Appeals to questionable or faulty authority – weakens ETHOS  Begging the question – failure to establish proof for controversy  False analogy – disregards significant dissimilarities & implies that since two things have one thing in common they are alike in all respects  Either/or – only two outcomes possible  Red herring – intentional digression from the issue