Large Feet

intro:

attention getter: it’s a super secretive private tour and it was late at night towards the witching hour, but i can’t give you the location because of safety reasons, ya know. 

credibility: we went to the county where the very first video of “bigfoot” was caught and also i used my researcher partner’s X200xp thermal handheld imaging unit to see bigfoot which is very expensive; using phrases like “at my eight-a-clock” or reffering to a large breaking branch sound and the cause of it being a “subject” trying to indicate he’s a super expert. 

thesis: the person seems to keep trying to show like “hey, i know what i’m doing in this situation, im an experienced wilderness person” like they see bigfoot every day or something. 

preview: begging the question 

reference: vrooman’s fallacies chart

main point: time

the time makes it seem like its so important that you have that information when really it doesnt make that much of a difference 

transition: we’ll continue to look at vrooman’s chart for the next main point

main point: repetition

some of the story is repeated but this part in particular just annoyed me, he kept just saying over and over how he kept snapping and calling for his partner quietly not to make the bigfoot run away but he just said it over and over again 

transition: finally we’re going to look at the fallacy chart 

main point: appeal to ignorance 

the guy is saying that he can’t prove that it wasn’t bigfoot so therefore its officially bigfoot and definitely not a large bear or anything. 

conclusion

summary: in conclusion we discussed how begging the questions, time, repetition, and appeal to ignorance add layers of ridiculousness to his views because they show how much he’s overdoing his story. 

thesis: the story isn’t credible because it tries harder than it needs to to show that all its information is “valuable” and trying to describe everything to a tee, when in reality, when your mind and adrenaline is rushing like that, your eyes don’t pick up those things but your subconscious mind does. 

clincher: if you want to make your story seem real, make sure to not leave out a single detail even though you definitely were aware of everything that was going around you all 360 degrees. 

Bigfoot Slides

Bigfoot Outline

Attention Getter: 

• Only remember little about bigfoot growing up. 
• When I think of bigfoot, I think of Jack Link’s Beef Jerky commercials.

Thesis: 

• The man that cited this incident makes a ridiculous argument that states his story has only one outcome that couldn’t be reasoned by anything else other than Bigfoot. This man tries to persuade the reader through the use of different types of arguments and fallacies, and also by being very descriptive. 

Credibility: 

• My name, Vrooman’s charts, and bigfoot website. 

Preview: 

• Arguments used are Hasty Generalization, Wishful thinking, and Texas Sharpshooter. The premises utilized are the Quantity of Loci, Exception of Example, and Aggregation of Presence. 

Body: 

Fallacies: 

1. Wishful Thinking

• Allows the idea that Sasquatch is the cause to become more of a reality as the story unfolds. 

2. Hasty Generalization 

• Allows all natural factors of being in the woods be a case that Sasquatch is the reason behind it.

3. Texas Sharpshooter

• The trap could be none other than BIGFOOT trying to capture me!!! 

Premises: 

1. Loci - Quality:

• It is better to make this a connection to Bigfoot.

2. Exception - Example: 

• The woods have many animals running around that create noise, but let's make this one time about Bigfoot. 

3. Aggregation - Presence: 

• All parts of the story create persuasion to believe that this is Bigfoot. 

Does this argument really work? 

No, unless you are a die hard Bigfoot believer or someone that created the account. 

Conclusion: 

• This story uses different fallacies and premises in an attempt to create persuasion on the reader that Bigfoot is real and there isn’t any other explanation that animals or natural happenings within nature can cause what he went through. 

Clencher: 

• If you really wanna catch Bigfoot, just take a bag of Jack Link’s beef jerky to the woods and make fun of him! 

Bigfoot Slides

BigFoot outline

Chris Johnson 

Attention Getter- how we are all here talking about the same thing but it doesn’t matter I’m still nervous as heck  

Intro/Cred- I'm Chris Johnson and cred goes to Vrooman and the use of his chart.  

Thesis- The witness tries to get us to fall for her story with the bad smell and some “red eyed” creature she has no idea was in the woods but really come on bigfoot isn't real. I was going to show how she attempted but in the end failing   

BODY-  

Presumptions- The likely 

Cum hoc- Two things that happened at the same time must have a causal relationship. 

• So the witness had her friends are at the campgrounds and needed to use the restrooms, so they needed to go out to the outhouse and when they had got there the witness saw something that seemed to have “red eyes” and smelled really bad that had spread out through the campgrounds.  

Facts/Truth- Supposed  

• The first time the witness went to use the restroom with her daughter it was to dark to see anything clearly an when she had spotted the “red eyed” creature she wasn't sure what it could have been. But the next morning she went back to see if anything was there and looking back where she saw the creature, she believed it as about 7-8 feet tall 

Example –Single  

Post Hoc- A thing that happens before another thing caused that.  

“They came back and everyone was talking out how horrible the area around the outhouse smelled and we laughed saying it was close to the end of season and about time to clean out the vault toilet” 

• This is an example because she had seen something the “red eyed” creature had done. When the witness spotted the creature and the creature did a quick movement of moving into a crouch position trying to avoid getting seen fully.  

Appeal to Force/Fear-   

When the witness was heading down a trail to find the outhouse and use the restroom, her and her daughter finally spotted the outhouse with their flashlight. She had also had red eyes staring right back at her. When that had happened, she didn’t have the urge to use/go to the restroom anymore and her next move was to walk back up to camp “rather quickly”.  

Conclusion –