EAPP QUUIZ

• Position Paper - it is also called as an argumentative paper or a manifesto
• Position Paper - an essay that presents a person’s or group’s position or stand on a particular issue.
• Position Paper - It presents rational support to a writer’s position through the use of evidence.
• Issue - an idea or question over which people are divided; it is also called as controversy.
• Thesis - It is a statement that expresses one’s stand or position on an issue.
• Reason - explain why a person’s position is logical, acceptable, and believable.
• Support - It refers to the evidences or ideas to substantiate the reasons.
• Facts – figures and writer’s observations from scholarly studies.
• Comparisons – similarities or differences between two ideas.
• Examples – real-life demonstrations of an idea
• Opinions – the author’s feelings or generalizations
• McWhorter - who propose a parts of position paper
• counterarguments - aims to refute or discredit a position.
• counterarguments, shows the weaknesses - two parts of position paper according to McWhorter.
• Emotional - is often used to win an argument using feelings and emotion rather than logic.
• Logical - This is the use of facts in order to support a position; it persuades the audience by targeting the thinking.
• Bandwagon or “Join the Crowd” appeal - writer uses people's tendency to conform to the majority, pointing out that his or her position enjoys support from many people.
• Bandwagon - is to convince people to “go with the flow"
• Appeal to Common Folk - done by pointing out that a person is no different from ordinary people
• Appeal to Common Folk - a product or idea is something that ordinary people would purchase or support.
• False Authority - a type of false reasoning in which a person speaks as expert on something which he/she has no expertise..
• Name Calling - it is also known as Ad Hominem
• Name Calling - uses labels with negative meanings to one's opponents in a bad light.
• Ad Hominem - A personal attacks on someone's character or motive rather than attempt to address the actual issue at hand
• Association - is done by creating a link between one thing or idea and another one that people have a positive and negative feelings for.
• Association - it is also known as hasty-generalization
• Argumentatum ad Misericordiam - argument to pity
• Field Report - a documentation of obervations and analysis of particular phenomena
• Concise - least number of words
• Clear - writing that transmits to the reader the exact idea that you have in mind, expressed in concrete words
• Objectives - free of emotionally loaded or biased words, so that the report appears neutral and factual
• Objectives - free of emotionally loaded or biased words, so that the report appears neutral and factual
• Non-Discriminatory - refers to writing that trait people equally and with respect
• Non-Discriminatory - refers to writing that trait people equally and with respect
• Non-Discriminatory - equal treatment of people with different genders, age and disease or disabilities
• Prefaratory Elements, Report Paper - two types of report
• Title - appears as the first page of the report.
• Abstract - summarizes your report by reducing to the most essential ideas
• Introduction - presents the objectives of the report
• Introduction - brief discussion of the purpose of the study