Reading And writing

• Critical reading allows us to extend our experiences
• process and knowledge acquired through evaluation, analysis, and conclusions.
• Inductive reasoning is the logic used here is from specific to general
• Deductive reasoning is the logic used from general to specific
• Abductive reasoning is the multiple choices that are available here
• Fiction is a literature that contains imaginary people, events, and stories
• Characters are the figures in the story
• Setting is the combination of place, time, and local color
• Plot is the sequence of events that transpired in a story
• Conflict is the struggle of ideas and forces in a story
• Evaluative statements weigh facts, form conclusions, and give judgements on the written text
• How does one become a critical reader and thinker? by asking questions, finding the facts, and attaching statements
• Thesis is a statement that acts as a premise to be maintained or proved
• Antithesis is the reaction to a thesis and acts as a negation
• Synthesis provides a solution to a conflict between a thesis and an anti thesis
• Steps in making evaluative statements is 1. Read. 2. Collect and organized 3. Look for relationships between facts 4. Look for the significance of the relationship
• Assertion means a declaration or a strong statement that an idea is true
• Evidence includes information from recources you gathered
• analysis is your concluding observation in your thesis
• counter claims is the product of critical thinking
• its objective or purpose is to persuade, convince, or explore
• An argument is a combination of asserting, acknowledging, confirming, and refuting
• Persuasion is the art of influencing someone to make changes in their behavior
• Formal fallacy has the appearance of good argument
• Informal fallacy exploits the emotional and psychological weaknesses of an audience
• Appeal to fear can affect change one's attitude
• Appeal to flattery is appealing to the aspired consequences
• Appeal to novelty is appealing to what is trending
• Appeal to ridicule is appealing to present an opponents argument as ridiculous and absurd
• Appeal to emotion this involves the manipulation of others emotion
• Appeal to disgust appealing in the guise of moral uprightness
• appeal to spite is appealing to pride
• Appeal to authority is appealing to one who speaks with authority
• appeal to coherence is appealing to something undispituable
• Appeal to consensu is appealing to what people believe to be true
• Appeal to consistency doesn't mean that if one is consistent,. he speaks the truth
• Appeal of correspondence is appealing to almost likeness which makes it valid
• Appeal of custom is the commonly done or regularly followed rules.
• Appeal to intuition is the appeal focused on the sudden rush of feelings or ideas
• Appeal to common practice is the more the followers the more an idea closest to truth