Transcript Argument Week 1

Everything’s An Argument
Classical Argument
Do Now
Feb 10
• How do you structure an argument?
• In other words, when you have written
an argument essay in the past, how did
you outline it?
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Cornell Note Time: Classical Argument
• Exordium
•
Hook & Credibility
• Narratio
•
Facts & Context
• Partitio
•
Claim & Reasons
•
Evidence & Reasoning
•
Counter Arg & Refutation
•
Summary & Call to Action
• Confirmatio
• Refutatio
• Peroratio
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An Example
• Read Bittman’s Article “Why Take Food
Seriously” on p 779 in Everything’s an Argument.
• Label 6 sticky-notes with the six parts of the
Classical Argument, and place them in the
appropriate parts of the text.
1.
2.
3.
Hook & Credibility
Claim & Reasons
Facts & Context
4.
Evidence & Reasoning
5. Counter Arg & Refutation
6. Summary & Call to Action
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Exordium in Detail
Where it is in Text
Hook & Credibility
• Gain’s reader’s interest
• Establishes qualifications
• Establishes common
ground with reader
• Demonstrates author’s
fairness
• States the claim.
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Narratio in Detail
Where it is in Text
Facts and Context
• Presents necessary
context (definitions/
background)
• Provides a personal or
historical narrative
relating to or outlining
case
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Where it is in Text
Partitio and Confirmatio in Detail
Claims & Reasons,
Support & Logic
• States a thesis
• Provides hard evidence
• Lays out logical
reasoning
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Refutatio in Detail
Where it is in Text
Counter Argument &
Refutation
• Examines other POVs
and opposing arguments
• Notes the advantages/
disadvantages of these
views
• Explains why author’s
view is better
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Peroratio in Detail
Where it is in Text
Summary & Call to Action
• Summarizes argument
• Elaborates on
implications of the claim
• Makes clear what the
audience should do
• Reinforces credibility or
emotional appeal
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1 thing you learned
1 thing you still have questions about
1 comment about the lesson
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Do Now: What is the
difference between claims
and evidence?
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Claim:
• A statement made with no
proof.
Evidence:
• the available body of facts
or information indicating
whether a belief or
proposition is true or valid
Debate!
Is Umofia a
civilized society or
not?
Types of Evidence
 Empirical Evidence
•
Evidence that comes from
experiments & observation
•
Evidence that comes from
reason and facts
 Anecdotal Evidence
•
Evidence that comes from
personal experience
 Fallacy
•
False or misleading argument
based on little evidence
 Logical Evidence
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Will you buy my Headphones?
• Empirical
Evidence
• Logical
Evidence
• Lab results have shown that the
headphones distort only at 2000
Hertz, while apple headphones
distort at 1500Hz
• The headphones come in many
colors.
People like colorful things.
So people will like the headphones.
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Headphone Evidence
• Anecdotal
Evidence
• Fallacy
(moral
equivalence)
• Beyonce tried the new
headphones and like
them better than her old
ones. She told me she
would wear them.
• People who don’t buy
these headphones are
evil music haters.
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More on Fallacies
• Hasty
Generalization
• One person bought the
headphones, so I know
many will!
• Either/Or
• Either you buy the
headphones or you will
not listen to music
• Red Herring
• The headphones on full
blast might hurt your
eardrums, but they help
me feed my children.
• Glittering/Negative
Generality
• Cool people buy
headphones like these!
Losers don’t.
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Debate
The United States should
ban the death penalty
Today’s goal: use all types of evidence
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Debate
 Establish that an issue is a Fact—
it happened
 Establish a Definition of an issue
 Establish the Cause of an issue
 Establish to what Degree an issue
hurts
 Establish what Action we should
take.
 Merge this information with Three
types of evidence
Definitions for homework
AFF: 5 min opening
NEG: 3 min CrossX
Time to check your notes to hit all of
their claims
NEG: 5 min opening
AFF: 3 min CrossX
Time to check your notes to hit all of
their claims
AFF: 4 min closing
NEG: 4 min closing
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Debrief
• What worked?
• What didn’t?
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HOMEWORK
Go onto e3healy.weebly.com,
APELAC Quarter 3,
and use the turnitin.com code to register for
the Quarter 3 class.
Do Now: Practice Test!
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Argument Essay
• How do you tear
apart the prompt?
Argument outline
• You will make an arguable point
• You will prove that point with reasons and
evidence (3 kinds) from your brain
• You will need to address a
counterargument
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How is it different?
• You won’t be able to research
• You may use classical argument,
but be sure your claims are clearly
supported by three types of
evidence.
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Do Now:
• Grab a Brave New World book
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Let’s look at Chapter 2:
Social Control
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Your Assignment
• Read Chapters 1-12
• Identify elements of social control
throughout the novel—using the
response chart
• Pick the one that YOU think will
inspire the greatest debate—and
create a proposal (a “we should”
statement)
• Be prepared to discuss and defend
your choice Feb 27