Module-2

• Different Ways you can Support your Claim

  1. Quotations
  2. Examples
  3. Statistics
• Quotations: direct quotes, paraphrases, summaries
• Examples: illustrations of your points
• Statistics: facts, figures, diagrams
• Writing support statements

  1. Write support statement (sentence)
  2. Write the reasons /evidence to support what you say (a number of sentences). Put your most important reasons first.
• Write the reasons /evidence to support what you say (a number of sentences). Put your most important reasons first.

  1. write a statement with the idea you disagree with (the opposing idea)
  2. write the reasons/evidence you have showing how your position is better (a number of sentences). Put your most important reasons first.
• Name calling - is a device to make us form a judgment without examining the evidence upon which it should be based.
• Anybody who dissented from popular or group belief or practice was in danger of being called a heretic.
• Glittering generalities - is a device by which the propagandist identifies his program with virtue by use of “virtue words.”
• Glittering Generalities - is a device to make us accept and approve, without examining the evidence.
• Transfer - is a device by which the propagandist carries over the authority, sanction, and prestige of something we respect and revere to something he would have us accept.
• Testimonial - is a device to make us accept anything from a patent medicine or a cigarette to a program of national policy.
• Plain Folks - is a device used by politicians, labor leaders, business men, and even by ministers and educators to win our confidence by appearing to be people just like ourselves – “just plain folks among the neighbors.”
• Card-stacking - is a device in which the propagandist employs all the arts of deception to win our support for himself, his group, nation, race, policy, practice, belief or ideal.
• band Wagon - is a device to make us follow the crowd, to accept the propagandist’s program en masse.
• Ways on How to Do Citations

  1. Quoting
  2. Paraphrasing
  3. Summarizing