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Description. Description. Your next essay will require careful and detailed description. Two types: Objective Facts and observable details Can still be interesting Subjective Creates impressions through details and imagery Can be emotional, create moods

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  2. Description • Your next essay will require careful and detailed description. • Two types: • Objective • Facts and observable details • Can still be interesting • Subjective • Creates impressions through details and imagery • Can be emotional, create moods • Most description is blended—a combination of objective and subjective.

  3. Dominant impression • To create a dominant impression, you express your main point about what you’re describing. • This means you may not necessarily describe everything you see. Group details around a key idea.

  4. Diction • Your diction, or choice of words, is very important in description. To liven up description, use: • Expressive verbs (She heaved the box over the fence instead of She moved the box over the fence.) • Plenty of adjectives (It was a bright, sunny, yet slightly chilly day.) • Consider metaphors and similes

  5. Activity • Part 1: With a partner, take a look at Capote and Urrea’s texts. • Jot down some notes about what makes their description lively. What kinds of words do they use? What are they doing with their language to help you clearly see a picture? • Then, we’ll discuss as a class.

  6. Activity Part 2 • Take a look at this Bud Light commercial. I’ll play it twice. • http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/our-10-funniest-commercials-from-super-bowl-xlviii-020214?related=e8cdad9a-e9dc-4a07-8444-b24fe2614fbe • Then, working with the person next to you, type up a description of this commercial. No analysis yet. Just describe it. • Email your description to me at jpack1@pima.edu • We’ll work together as a class to make this a detailed and lively description.

  7. Activity Part 3 • Lastly, working with your partners, make an argument about this commercial. Write your argument on a piece of paper, remember that the argument is NOT OBVIOUS and shouldn’t just be about the product.

  8. Logical Fallacies or Errors in Critical Thinking AKA: what NOT to do when making an argument

  9. Fallacy • An error in an argument • Usually related to reasoning • There are four types: • Emotional • Support • Inconsistency • Choice

  10. Fallacies you might discover in your papers • Blanket statements • Use the language of absoluteness • Slippery Slope • Because one minor event happened, a much larger event will follow • Usually has negative connotations • Hasty Generalization • Taking a single case and generalizing from it

  11. More fallacies • Non sequitur or red herring • One statement does not logically relate to or follow from another • False authority • Using the testimonial of someone who is not credible on the subject at hand • Double standard • Applying different judgments to similar things • Bandwagon • Following popular tastes • Everyone believes it, so I should too.

  12. Fallacies continued • Equivocation • Arguing for both sides of the same argument • Circular Argument • Relies on its own claim for support • Ad Hominem • Arguing based on a person’s character, personality, etc.

  13. Examples • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLTQi7vVsI • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPbJpL4UnY0

  14. How does this relate to your essay? • When might you be tempted to make fallacious arguments?

  15. Activity • Get in groups of three. • Pull out one piece of paper and decide on a group recorder. • I will pull up some images one at a time. • Discuss the image as a group and write down the following: • What type of logical fallacy is this? • Jot down notes to explain why.

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