ENG122: Composition II An Introduction to Argument English 122: Composition II An Introduction to Argument Argument and Rhetoric An argument can take many forms. It is‚ at its root‚ a method for communicating a singular position with evidence‚ logic‚ and persuasion. There are essential elements to all valid arguments‚ though they may take different forms. 1. Claim 2. Evidence 3. Counterargument 4. Rebuttal A successful argument depends upon the delicate balance between these elements. Imagine a
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as heroin and methamphetamines. Many schools are trying to solve the issue and prevent these harmful substances from being abused by their students. One route that many schools are taking is by performing random drug tests on their students in hopes that they will find those who are using illicit substances. Administrators are also hoping that other students will be deterred from drug use due to the harsh consequences that come with a positive test‚ often suspension and loss of driving privileges
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country in the world I travel to‚ I will not come to the United Stated of America‚ daddy!” My daddy just laughed and said‚ “You’ll never know young lady‚ so let’s see”. Two years after that I am writing an essay in my room‚ not in Indonesia but United States. How can it be? Well‚ I am an exchange student staying in Wisconsin now. I applied for an exchange program for all over the world and United States is one of the countries in my list. Not because I want to go to the United States because I already
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Analogical Argument 2. Analogue: doctors and lawyers Primary Subject: travel agents Similarity: jobs that give public service with years of training Property: must also give the most safety and comfort in service Although there are many relevant similarities between the analogue and the primary subject (e.g. jobs that give public service with years of training)‚ they are outweighed by the relevant dissimilarities‚ most important of which is the difference in the level of training and
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The cosmological arguments are inductive arguments based on an ‘a posteriori’ premise‚ which‚ despite having been introduced many years ago‚ continue to be prevalent today. An early example of the argument is within ‘Timaeus’‚ in which Plato proposed the idea that anything that has been created must be created by a cause. These arguments are intended to prove the existence of the God of Classical Theism by explaining that God must be the first cause of the universe; the being setting the world into
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Essay 1 Fallacious has been one of those words that are being used often in our society today. At first‚ I used to think that fallacious reasoning is a way in which we human beings think about a situation but to my surprise‚ I was proven wrong of what the real meaning fallacious reasoning is. Fallacious reasoning according to Purdue owl is a “common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument which can be illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points”. In general‚ to my understanding
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Criterion SM Online Essay Evaluation: An Application for Automated Evaluation of Student Essays Jill Burstein Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road‚ 18E Princeton‚ NJ 08541 jburstein@ets.org Martin Chodorow Department of Psychology Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York‚ NY 10021 martin.chodorow@hunter.cuny.edu Claudia Leacock Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road‚ 18E Princeton‚ NJ 08541 cleacock@ets.org Abstract This paper describes a deployed educational technology application:
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Charity is a kind of virtue that involves an infinite amount of love and kindness. Charity can be express by the act of giving and caring. The question is does everything a person who lacks charity does is a sin? The virtue of charity is significant to Aquinas’s moral philosophy. By doing charity makes you a better person? Does a person who lacks charity is a sinner? In Secunda Secundae Partis Q. 23‚ A.7‚ the text expresses that Aquinas does not believe that everything a person who lacks charity
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? Gay marriage has been a critical topic since 1924. Like around the year 2000 the countries America and UK started approving gay marriage even though not everyone agreed with that decision. Homosexuals right now are still fighting for their right to get married to someone of their same sex. According to some articles there is nothing wrong with allowing homosexuals to have the same rights as those who are heterosexuals. Every
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When people discussing about commonsense‚ they mean the basic of knowledge that we see and may or may not experience in real life. People will always have their own opinions about everything‚ and their sources are vary. However‚ homosexual is one of the “American’s hot topic issue” over many decades. I am disagree with Tom Daschle because there are no prove nor evidence base on science method for his belief‚ and the facts that I see it more like dogmatism. For more information and according to the
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