7 Matching Annotations
- Mar 2022
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In order to remind the reader that we have already discussed an idea, we can use what Graff and Birkenstein call pointing words like “this” or “that.
Pointing words are kind of a highlight to the concept or idea of the pragraph.
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Don’t worry if it doesn’t come naturally; for most people it requires mental sweat and revision
This is refreshing to hear that it does not always come naturally, it gives me permission to not stress out too much about it.
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Paradoxically, the first step toward writing a good transition sentence can be to remind ourselves of the point we have just made.
Is a good transition sentence found at the beginning of a paragraph or at the end?
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- Feb 2022
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Absence of evidence can sometimes tell us something useful. It may be a reason to doubt the conclusion even if it doesn't disprove it.
Is any absence of evidence appeal to ignorance? can we state " this appeals to ignorance".
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We can look for exceptions with any argument, but there are two particular patterns worth learning about so we can spot them quickly. These patterns are known as the false dilemma fallacy and the loaded question fallacy.
is there one that is a stronger argument? does the loaded question throw the reader off and make it a bigger dicussion?
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This is in some ways similar to a movie review: a reviewer has to give some picture of what the movie is like before praising or panning it
This makes a lot of sense to me, summarizing has critique involved with it. Somewhat of a review of what the reader is intending to say.
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Since our goal in an assessment is to decide how effective we think the argument will be at getting its point across, any charge of vagueness implies some failure to communicate that point. This becomes a critique
This had me confused before. Differentiating assessment and critique still seems like a fine line to me.
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