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


Intro- Hook: A cryptid is a strange animal with an unconfirmed existence. For example, platypuses were once considered cryptids.  Credibility: (cite Vrooman’s charts) I’ve learned a good bit about arguments in this class, and I love cryptids Thesis: This guy uses a cocktail of fallacies and types of arguments to create an overall argument that leaves its reader at the conclusion “He’s making fun of this site” (He is “not wasting my efforts here on a hoax of any sort”)
*Introduce Organizer slide*

-How his combination of fallacies helps my thesis
                                                - Anecdotal Fallacy/Misleading Vividness and accent (on TWO legs) creates air of cheesiness
                                                -(Bandwaggon) He hops onto assumptions that people on this site will believe him and (appeal to misleading authority throws in an over the top list of his own achievements just in case. Enough achievements to make you wonder if he’s really all of these things given that he says he’s a police officer in the title and a teacher in the story.
                                                -In a hasty generalization, we’re on to bears. Of course. We’ll see more of that in…

-How his combination of P-OT arguments helps my thesis
                                                -Most of these are about bears and overlook an obvious fact. Let’s see if you can figure it out!
                                                - Comparison: Bigfoot and Bears
- Transivity: If Bigfoot walks on two legs and the giant shadowy figure walked on two legs, then the giant shadowy figure must be Bigfoot.
                                                - Supposed: He allegedly knows how bears work and how Bigfoot works
                                                - Single: This event is undeniable proof that Bigfoot exists and is definitely not a bear
                                                -Need I go on?
                                                -But bears can walk. It’s common knowledge that bears can walk.

Conclusion- Main Points: His fallacies wove together, his arguments wove together
                Clencher: (Cryptid Puns)

3 comments:

  1. Really like how detailed and precise you are in the outline, gives me a good understanding of what you will be talking about which as someone who will be hearing the speech itself I much appreciate.

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  2. I think the best advice I can give you is perhaps a bit more organization, which sounds weird because your outline is already quite organized, but maybe using some of the outline words that Vrooman suggests like main points and transitions, but that's all dependent on what you might forget and what will help you remember. Also don't forget to try and keep your outline as un-wordy as possible so you don't get suck reading.

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  3. So your outline information looks good. Maybe you can try to spread out your wording a little. Work on the transitions a little more, and make it more clear. Try to make the conclusion a little bit more longer.

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