Reading and writing

Cards (26)

  • Hypertext - A non-linear way of presenting information, rather than
    the traditional linear process of reading beggining to end.
  • Intertext - It Is the interconnection between Similar or related works.
  • Critical reading - Not easily believing Information Offered to you by a text
  • Critical thinking - The ability to think clearly and rationally the ability to understand the relation of ideas presented.
  • False dilemma - Despite the presence of multiple possibilities an arguer presents his/her argument as one of only two option
  • Appeal to ignorance - Just because it is not proven to be false, and vice versa, something is instantly concluded to be true
  • Slippery slope - When a series of increasingly superficial and unacceptable consequence is drawn.
  • Complex question - The reader is expected to either accept or reject two or more points that are rolled into one.
  • Appeal to force - instead of reasoning, a threat is used to argue.
  • Appeal to pity - Pity is used instead of logical reasoning
  • Appeal to consequences - To show that the belief is false, there's unpleasant consequence of believing something are pointed out.
  • Bandwagon - Just because it is what the majority thinks, an argument is considered as valid
  • Attacking the person - Instead of attacking the ideas of the argument, you attack the character of the person.
  • Appeal to authority - Occurs when a person is not actually a legitimate expert on the subject matter: occurs when you assert your own expertise.
  • Anonymous authority - The authority in the statement isn't mentioned
  • Hasty generalization - The sample is not significant or enough to support a generalization about a population
  • False analogy - When writer assumes that two concept mat are similar
    in some ways are also similar to other ways.
  • Accident - Even if a general rule should be an exception,
    It is still applied to a situation
  • Post hoc - A is the cause of B since A happened Before B.
  • Wrong direction - There is reverse i direction between cause
    and effect
  • Complex cause - Even when there are other factors. which also contributed to the event, the explanation is reduced to one thing
  • Irrelevant conclusion - The argument which supposed to prove something conclude something else instead
  • Strawman - The poSition of the opposition is twisted to that is
    easier to refute
  • Affirming the consequent - If argument A is true, B Is true
  • Denying antecedent - If argument A is aint true, B is also not true
  • Inconsistency - The arguments contradict one another