Take-Aways From The Course: " Writing For Social Justice " : Part 1

 

Greek Rhetorical Devices

Ethos: 1) Refers to an ethical appeal

                2)  Use this device when you try to convince the audience of your credibility and authority to                                        raise your voice about affairs

               3) Sufficient precision in the following elements must be depicted in the context of the usage of                                language:

• Precise and accurate language
• Facts
• Statistics
• Background information

Pathos: 1) Refers to an emotional appeal

                  2)  Make the audience feel the same way as you

                  3)  Use an emotional language, a tone that will evoke pity and feeling

Logos: Appeals to a person`s sense of wrong and right, keeping in view the logical facts/events

                                                            Logical Fallacies

Ad Hominem: An argument that argues against the person rather than their point of view.

Straw Man: Mischaracterising an opponent`s argument and then defeating the false arguments

Appeal To Ignorance: Occurs when one believes something to be true that is not. This fallacy jumps in                                      because of a lack of knowledge/information about the subject

False Dilemma: Arguments proposing only two choices when  more choices/possibilities are available

Slippery Slope: Take a small outcome and spin it out to the worst-case scenario

Circular Reasoning: Restates a claim, typically using different vocabulary

Overgeneralisation: Taking a small set of examples and considering it applicable to all cases

Red Herring: A distraction technique

Tu Quoque: AD HOMINEM + RED HERRING

                    . An appeal to hypocrisy

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc: An informal fallacy stating that since one event followed another, the first event must have caused the second one