Day 6 post 2

Please define and provide one example each for the following logical fallacies. Please do not cut and paste your definitions. Instead, put them into your own words.
Ad Hominem
Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Belief
Appeal to Common Practice
Appeal to Consequences of a Belief
Appeal to Emotion
Appeal to Fear
Appeal to Flattery
Appeal to Novelty
Appeal to Pity
Appeal to Popularity
Appeal to Ridicule
Appeal to Spite
Appeal to Tradition
Bandwagon
Begging the Question
Biased Sample
Burden of Proof
Circumstantial Ad Hominem
Composition
Confusing Cause and Effect
Division
False Dilemma
Gambler's Fallacy
Genetic Fallacy
Guilt By Association
Hasty Generalization
Ignoring A Common Cause
Middle Ground
Misleading Vividness
Personal Attack
Poisoning the Well
Post Hoc
Questionable Cause
Red Herring
Relativist Fallacy
Slippery Slope
Special Pleading
Spotlight
Straw Man

Day 6 post 1

Before our next class, on Tuesday, September 2, please post the first half (or more) of your chapbook here.

Day 5 post 2

from the blog of Bennett Parker Graff:

"So why do we teach students how to write literary criticism? Make no mistake, it is a form of writing that can approach art in the right hands. But even for beginners it is a far more difficult mode of nonfiction writing--in my humble view--than the standard nonfiction forms of narration, description, and argumentation. Technically, literary criticism is a subdivision of the last, but it remains one of the hardest to do well. I attribute this difficulty not only to the inability of [some] students to read well but also to the inherent complications of trying to formulate an argument about something as slippery as a finely crafted story or poem."

So I would like you all to try. Please select one of the following poems and devise an detailed outline for a literary analysis on it. Include at the top your thesis.
Poems to choose from--
"Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning
"Keeping Things Whole" by Mark Strand

Day 5 post 1

Please look at Forbes' list of the world's richest people and click on some of their names to learn more about them. Then, in a well-developed paragraph, discuss some trends, demographic or otherwise, that you notice among these super-elite. What about today's world makes it possible for these individuals to be so enormously wealthy?
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html

Blog for Day 4 post 2

For Day 4's second blog, please review Foreign Policy magazine's 2008 list of the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" who are "some of the world’s most introspective philosophers and rabble-rousing clerics. A few write searing works of fiction and uncover the mysteries of the human mind. Others are at the forefront of modern finance, politics, and human rights...we reveal the thinkers who are shaping the tenor of our time" (Foreign Policy).


http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4314#bios

Familiarize yourself with three by googling them. In the blog today, list your three and share a few surprising, interesting, or remarkable findings about each. Next, is there a person or people not on the list that you think should be? Tell why.

Day 4 post 1

Please post at least six more pages of your chapbbok by Tuesday (before our next class meeting). You can do it!

Day 3, post 2

Please refer to the link below and then, using what you learned, write a paragraph introducing yourself and your capabilities to a future employer or client. Please be detailed, nuanced, and specific.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~sschuman/tentips98.html