This is just a quick post to summarize the Extra Credit assignment I
will be proposing for you in our class together tomorrow, Thursday. The extra credit
assignment asks you to illustrate ten notions we've explored in the
course so far by finding, transcribing, and labeling an example of each
one that you find within the pages (whether digital or pulp) of a single
issue of a daily newspaper or monthly magazine.
The examples I seek include:
Remember, this assignment is entirely voluntary and is due next Thursday, June27, the same day you are doing the Writing Workshop for the final paper. If you do choose to turn in this Extra Credit assignment, I strongly recommend you work on it earlier rather than later -- your time will be better spent ensuring your final papers and notebooks are in fine shape than working for ten to fifteen extra credit points for the Mid-Term!
The examples I seek include:
1. A logos appeal.In order to get credit for any of the illustrations you find you must provide examples of all ten. You will receive one extra credit point for each of the ten illustrations you get right. If you provide good illustrations for all ten you will receive an extra five bonus points in addition to the ten you receive for each individual correct illustration. And so, this Extra Credit assignment is worth fifteen points at most. Whatever points you earn on this assignment will be added to the score you received on your Mid-Term Examination (as you can see, this might amount at best to a letter grade and a half of extra credit points for the Mid-Term).
2. A pathos appeal.
3. An ethos appeal.
4. A piece of formal reasoning, illustrating a valid modus ponens or modus tollens inference or the formal fallacies of either affirming the consequent or denying the antecedent (to be clear, I am looking for an example of just one of these, not an example of each of them).
5. An informal fallacy.
6. A second, different informal fallacy.
7. One of the Four Master Tropes.
8. A second trope, not one of the Four Master Tropes.
9. A scheme.
10. A second, different scheme.
Remember, this assignment is entirely voluntary and is due next Thursday, June27, the same day you are doing the Writing Workshop for the final paper. If you do choose to turn in this Extra Credit assignment, I strongly recommend you work on it earlier rather than later -- your time will be better spent ensuring your final papers and notebooks are in fine shape than working for ten to fifteen extra credit points for the Mid-Term!
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