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Greetings!. Have out your 3 paragraphs. This week:. Let’s do the dang thang . Finish up our essays Toulmin model Quiz Thursday over logical fallacies. Logical Fallacies:. Why didn’t they work? Check ‘ em . Turn ‘ em in. Why do you need to know them? By name? You don’t.

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Greetings!

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  1. Greetings! Have out your 3 paragraphs

  2. This week: • Let’s do the dang thang. • Finish up our essays • Toulmin model • Quiz Thursday over logical fallacies

  3. Logical Fallacies: • Why didn’t they work? • Check ‘em. • Turn ‘em in. • Why do you need to know them? • By name? You don’t. • By practice? So you don’t get dooped.

  4. Your essay: • Suggested length: 800-1000 words • Due next week • Needs introduction and conclusion • Keep in mind: • Are you inducing or deducing?

  5. Options for introductions: • Outlandish statement (be careful) • Anecdote (be careful) • Quote (be careful) • Definition (be careful) • Are there other ways? • Yup. • Why didn’t you list them? • I don’t want you to use them. • Why? • Why do you ask so many questions?

  6. “We Do Abortions Here” by Sally Tisdale We do abortions here; that is all we do. There are weary, grim moments when I think I cannot bear another basin of bloody remains, utter another kind phrase of reassurance. So I leave the procedure room in the back and reach for a new chart. Soon I am talking to an eighteen-year-old woman pregnant for the fourth time. I push up her sleeve to check her blood pressure and find row upon row of needle marks, neat and parallel and discolored. She has been so hungry for her drug for so long that she has taken to using the loose skin of her upper arms; her elbows are already a permanent ruin of bruises. She is surprised to find herself nearly four months pregnant. I suspect she is often surprised, in a mild way, by the blows she is dealt. I prepare myself for another basin, another brief and chafing loss.

  7. “French philosopher and writer Voltaire once said, ‘A witty saying proves nothing.’ This is a very well-known quote appearing on T-shirts, posters and joke pages throughout the civilized world. It demonstrates the danger of using quotes at the beginning of an essay. If the quote doesn't provoke the essay to follow, it proves nothing and provides nothing useful to your paper. However, if the assignment is to start with a specific quote or if you find a quote that is particularly meaningful to your topic, starting an essay with a quote can be very effective.”

  8. Good news about introductions: • You have options. • The bad news? • Some are just good and some are just bad. You have to work and re-work until it’s good. • Sawy.

  9. Conclusion • Typically you’d use the following formula: • Restate thesis in backwards order identify why the reader should adopt your opinion

  10. But one must consider: • Are you using induction or deduction? • What’s the difference? • Regardless of which model you chose: • You should leave your reader with a sense of why they should consider your viewpoint • Avoid the “and so yea”

  11. For homework: • Write your introduction, 3 paragraphs and conclusion into one cohesive essay (this may be typed)

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