Key Terms/Concepts and Questions

Key Terms and Concepts

• Finding Claims, arguable thesis
  • Find a working thesis
    • You’re still researching
    • Right now, you have a subject, but not a claim yet.
    • Where can we enter into the conversation?
• Don’t argue about fact, opinions or beliefs.
  • We know tomatoes are fruits.
  • We don’t care if kitten are cute.
  • Keep your UFOs, your gods and/or your doubts to yourself
• Know who your audience is.
  • Are the generic conventions we established there?

Questions

• How can we avoid such fallacies in our paper?
  • Have someone read your paper for you.
  • Check yourself.
• What if you an across an argument that agrees but later disagrees with your claim? Should I still use it?
  • Yes! It isn’t one-sided. It’s not biased.
  • Bring in the opposing side.
• Does the band-wagon fallacy have instances where it can be used for good reasoning?
  • No because the band-wagon fallacy is missing individuality.
  • Central logos is gone.
• Do we have to use fallacies or is that optional?
  • Try not to use a logical fallacy in our reasoning.
  • We might find these in our resources.
    • We can use this as commentary.
• How many kinds of evidence can we use?
  • Adding four sources to your paper
    • 2 scholarly and 2 popular
  • Basically four additional sources to the other sources.
• How do we make an attention-grabbing title?
  • Must be original, creative, and exciting.
• Can we use first-person in our papers?
  • No.