Persuasion Test!

strategic use of language to move an audience to action or belief

an appeal to one's sense of ethics or his standards of what constitues proper behavior (ethical appeal)

an appeal to emotion

an appeal to logic; an appeal to one's sense of reason, usually the strongest type of apppeal

Celeberty endorsement is and example of....

the writer's readers

the writer's dominant goal

something known to be true or real; that which has actually occured; a statement of truth which can be proven valid through observation, calculation, experimentation, measurement or research; an absolute

a belief held, often without positive knowledge or proof; a judgement, personal idea, preference, throught, or feeling

an idea that is presented as a fact, yet in reality is an untruth

a statement that refers to a common characteristic of several items- people, places, animals, objects or events

a statement that refers too broadly to people, places, animals, objects or events

words that account for acceptions
i.e. "some"

a sentence that states clearly and concisely the main position that you wish to support with your argument

a rewording of the thesis idea; on persuasive writing, it many include a call to action for the reader

feelings or hunches that are inappropriate for persuasive argumentation

flaws in reasning that will render an argument invalid

an intentional slanting of the truth about people or events to further one's own cause or to damage an opposing cause; may use facts, lies, distortions, or appeals to emotion

attempt to show why something happens, why something is the way it is

make judgements; indicating good and bad points

make claims about the future

present views about what people or orginazations should do

An appropriate thesis statement should...

focusing on a person's lifestyle, the issue is evaded

when used, the reader should consider the expertise of the source

refusing to back up a disputed claim
"that's just how it is"

someone may imply that your argument is not true because his own is in the majority
"DO IT CUZ I SAY SO PUNK!"

since no one has proven a claim, it must be false

falsely connects emotion to an issue

trying to "show" someone with an impressive fact
i.e " I paid $6465789643165798 for this outfit, don't you love it?!?"

associating something with a popular virtue such as patriotism

the premises include the claim that the conclusion is true or (directly or indirectly) assume that the conclusion is true

'reducing all possible options to two extremes

presenting one argument and downplaying the other in order to mislead the audience

"x" is good or bad because it is like or unlike "Y"

assuming that because two things happened, the first one caused the second one

basing conclusions on inadewuate evidence

what one supposes would have happen if one thing or another had happened instead

over-simplifying things

violate and contriversial topics that sidetrack everyone involved

assuming that one thing leads to another, causing a chain of other positive or negative events to follow