HW 1/21

-identify common ground with your audience

-choose a topic you care about, that also is a contested issue

-thesis= topic+ claim

-identify other perspectives

-forms of argument: introduction, narration, partition, confirmation, refutation, conclusion

-differentiate between fact and opinion

-induction: reasoning from examples to conclusions

-deduction: reasoning from general to specific

-Toulmin- claim, data, warrant

-Fallacies of relevance: personal attack, bandwagoning, false authority, appeal to tradition, etc.

-Fallacies of ambiguity: hasty generalization, begging the question, guilt by association, circular argument, slippery slope, etc.