David's Bigfoot speaking outline

 Beginning 

 

1^st slide-

Opener/ attention getter (Give background to the story and draw in the audience)

On the murky banks of Elm Creek in San Antonio there is a legend to be told of a spirt who haunts the area she goes by the name of the Donkey Lady. Countless stories of broken glass  windows and other disturbances have been recorded…elaborate “found its way into paranormal magazines and news reports alike”

Pan out from screen to just me

Credibility and claim (thesis)

-Yet maybe we have been misled and the truth lies in a mortal being… “of course those would be some big shoes to fill”

 

2^nd slide-

Fallacies 

-Appeal to ignorance 

The only person the story aside from the author were a Jogger and his dog who were not in the vicinity of the witness who claimed to be on the opposite side of the road.

-Slippery slope

The witness claims that his intuition told him he was being watched however there was no sighting made with his eyes only hastily made observations and connections to bigfoot.

 

3^rd slide-

Premise/Premise Modifiers 

-Presence (more specifically Time, & Enthymeme)

The author paints a picture in which they are rushing out of a seemingly dangerous situation giving the story urgency, Though he goes into depth about his experience he still refuses to make an exact claim on whether or not he believes in the sasquatch rather opting to pin the title of bigfoot believer on his Wife.

-Interpretations (specific choices)

The author urges the audience to try and decide whether these occurrences are originating from Bigfoot or the folktale Donkey Lady instead of offering other possibilities

 

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Argument types

-Based on structure of reality (coexistence)

The author never sees saw enough proof to justify the sighting and therefore manifested it.

-Establishing the structure of reality (single example)

This is the single isolated sighting with this author

-Disassociation (justification)

The author brings up how his senses were acting in the moment but also distances himself from the argument by stating that anything was possible and not making an absolute claim on whether bigfoot was real 

5^th Slide-

Restate thesis, jokes, why doesn’t this argument work?

“lets hold the phone on whether this is a credible argument after all it’s pretty Hairy”