Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Bigfoot outline


Introduction:

Attention getter: Ever see a hairy leg and think its bigfoot? Well join the club, there is one, apparently.

Thesis: The person providing the bigfoot account is establishing and driving home their credibility as it pertains to wilderness experience as well as experience in that area.

Introduction/credibility Just trust me, I’ve been analyzing arguments with Vrooman’s charts for a couple of weeks I’m practically an expert!

Preview: We will be looking at these fallacies (Name them) as well as some argument forms (name them) and how they function to build this credible argument?

I.                    Fallacies

A.    Appeal to misleading Authority

Establishing her credibility

B.     Cum Hoc

Putting together A + B = C

C.     Wishful Thinking

Something must be real to form a symbiotic relationship!

          Transition

II.                 P-OT

A.    Loci - Quantity

The amount of experience  

B.     Single

Well I saw it, it must be true!

C.     Intention

Putting it all together.

                        Transition

III.              SUMMARIZE

            IV. Conclusion

A.    Thesis: The subject in this account bolsters not only her credibility with being experienced outdoors, but also an expert on her immediate area, and having vast knowledge on 4-legged animals and uses that to make her account more credible.

B.     Clincher If we all run around in the forest in Chewbacca costumes, we have great potential of creating solid content for next year’s rhetoric class!

2 comments:

  1. I think that your outline is set up very organized and it’s well put together, it doesn’t look like you missed anything. I really like the restated thesis in the conclusion, I feel like it gives more than the thesis in the intro.

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  2. Your thesis is interesting, I like it a lot! :) I feel like, with an assignment like this, it's easy to fall into the "just make the argument that this story isn't true even though we all already know that" trap, and I think that you've done a really good job averting that.

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