Arguments

I think that we know mostly everything we need to know about arguments. I would like to know more about how to formulate an argument, like what steps to take, instead of just what an argument is. The only thing I think you could do better next time is by providing examples and maybe posting a sample argument on D2L.

My audience

My research paper is about smoking in public. I believe that smoking in all public buildings should be illegal. My audience's name is Eliza Marie Flounderburg. She is a well educated 40 year old representative for Minnesota. i am trying to convince her to vote for legislation banning smoking in all public places. She grew up with parents that smoke, and has asthma because of it. Since this has happened to her, it should be pretty easy to convince her to vote anti-smoke. She also has two daughters that she should want to protect from the harmful effects of second hand smoke.

my last argument

The last argument I got in was with my mother. My cat had just had kittens and I wanted to be able to keep one of them. She did not. We both brought up good points. She said that it was more expensive, my dad's allergies would get worse with two cats, and that I was going off to college, so I would not enjoy it anyways. I brought up many points as well. I said that it would not be much more expensive because we already had all the supplies, it was just a little extra food and kitty litter. I brought up a few facts, but mostly I appealed to her feelings. I told her that since I was the youngest child, when I left she would be lonely and need a kitten or something to keep her entertained and make her laugh. I also told her that it would make want to come home more often to apply to her sense of humor. In the end, I won!!! Now we have two kitties and I love and miss them both.

fallicy

I use alot of diferent fallicies. The one I use the most is the appeal to pity. This is when someone says something to appeal to the audience's emotions, ususally the feeling of sympathy, instead of using facts and evidence. I use this one alot becuase it is very useful when trying to catch the reader's attention. Then, after I have thier attention, I use facts and evidence to prove my point. I also use it because I am good at coming up with them and they are easy to use.

My personal experience essay

There are many reasons that I really liked this essay. It was my favorite that we have done so far. One reason that I liked this essay is that it was easy to writel. We could write about pretty much anything we wanted. I also liked it because we did not have to do any research. One of my least favorite things to do in an english class is reaserch papers. Since we did not have to do any research for this paper, that meant we did not have to do a works cited page or any in text citations. Another good thing about the personal essay is that since we already knew everything that we were writing about, it was much faster to write than if you had to double check the facts.
Although there are many reasons I liked this essay, there are also some reasons that I didn't like it. One reason is that it was really hard to pick a topic. It was nice that we did not have to write about a specific thing, but it also made it hard to pick one specific thing out of my whole life to write about. It was also hard because the topic I picked was kinda emotional. Since it had to do with the attempted suicide someone I knew, it was very depressing to write, but it also felt good to finally let it all out. It was also hard to write because i had to remember the little details and at points that was hard.