mission Critical Website

What I found useful to the Mission Critical Website was that it was organize to find the parts of argument and the different types of arguments there are. When you click on a word, it give you an example for the word and the description of how to use it and when to use it. For example when I clicked the “ambiguous and vague”, the website gives you the definition of each word.  Next are a A, B and C section where it gives you a phrase and the next sentence in it.  The website also includes a section fallacies. They list the different types to appeal to loaded questions in the section. This website is really helpful for a person who needs help within the vocabulary. Its simplicity and ease to move around will help me to study for the final by using the Mission Critical website. The only bad thing I did not find useful was that there were some stuff still under construction, which can help now then later.  

Cause and Effect Website

What I found useful for the Cause effect website was that they gave many different examples we use to find a cause effect to a problem or and argument. In the website, they gave an example of a bicyclist who gets hit by a car because he passed a truck when he was opposed to be in the bike lane. So who do we say who’s fault is it. The truck was illegally parked in the parking zone which caused the accident. Second the car’s sudden stop made his client hit him. There are a few ways that the accident could be avoided. If the truck was parked legally. The biker stayed in the bike lane. The lawyers for all persons involved have to tell their side of what happened. The example goes into the trial of what happens next to the effect to what happens. The strengths of the casual argument is : How acceptable the implied comparison is. Likely the cause of causation seems to be. How Credible the claim is. 

1. Types of reasoning

The Reason by Analogy is a comparison becomes reasoning by analogy when it is part of an argument. 

For example: John plays video games all day not going to school. He gets good grades without going to lecture sometimes. Therefore, he is smart and can take advantage of his time. He can survive college if he passes all the exams.

Sign Reasoning 

If the iPhone comes out to Verizon Wireless by next year many will switch over. Then both Apple and Verizon stocks will go up in the first quarter. 

Casual Reasoning 

Tom had homework to do before going to work. He missed the bus from finishing up his homework. Therefore he missed work which lead to him being fired. 

Reason by Criteria 

Tim Lincecum wants to be the best pitcher in MLB history. How about two Cy Youngs and a World Series Champ in less then ten years? 

Reason by Example

Do you like Hip-Hop and Rap? Artist with talent? Then listen to the new Kanye West album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy that comes out Nov 22nd. He blends his beats and artist lyricism in this Genius album of all time. 

Inductive

All my roomate does is play video games and online poker. Therefore he has no friends.

Deductive 

All asians are smart. Studying is a sport for asians. Therefore Asians get good test scores and good grades. 

Indicator Words

 We use indicator words or claims added to a claim to tell the role of the claim in an argument or what the speaker thinks of the claim or argument. These words clarify the argument in which it is  not part of a claim. Some words fro conclusion indicators are: so, thus, it follows that and hence. Premise indicators include: since, because, for, it follows from and given that. The two sets are different when using it to what the speaker thinks of a claim or argument. If the speaker does not use an indicator word, then good English style suggest that the topic concludes the argument. 

Example: Journalists are using YouTube to report the news. So anyone can be a journalist. 

In this example we can say that anyone can be a journalist from a friend to a CNN reporter on YouTube. The only difference is that the ones we see on TV and YouTube is a pay difference of none to salary pay. 

I like to use indicator words to show how my argument can be persuasive enough to another person. 

Conditional claim

A conditional claim is if it can be written as an “if...then” claim that has the same truth by value. The statement is assumable because we do not know the outcome until later. I use conditional claims to find out what would happen if prop 19 did pass then will California gain money or make people more dumb from prop 19. The condition is the subordinate and then the consequence is the main clause. We sometimes assume that conditional claim can be argued because we do not know what will happen if the premise to be true or false. If the Rangers hit the ball or Cliff Lee did good then they would have won the World Series. This could be true but it is not and the Giants won by getting all the good breaks to win it all. Or if the Rangers won, they have the best hitters in the majors right now. 

Exercise 10 #3

This midterm election, I witnessed many attack ads that appeal fear to the opponent. There are many new ways for advertisements instead of billboards. Many politicians have invested millions of dollars in putting ads on the internet to attract young voters to swing in that direction. Depending on the age group of voters they want  to attract, they will put ads anywhere. Newspapers for the older generation, 30-50 by TV and the younger voters by internet. The one battle was for Governor of California. Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown made many attack ads against each other to discover the truth about each other. One was about Meg Whitman having a similar speech to former Governor Arnold  Schwarzenegger. They both said the same words in different speeches and at the end it said “ We tried this already”. I thought it was funny because it is true what Brown said. Whitman countered by stating about herself and how she created thousands of jobs through Ebay. Also Whitman contributed $147 million dollars in ads to lose to him. I feel that this is a good way of political arguments because they offer funny or attacking ads against their opponents. 



to watch the ad heres the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSLoTJySZmg

Appeal to Emotion

The Appeal To Emotion is an argument which is emotional based that a premises says, roughly, you should believe to do something in a certain way. It appears to appeal other people in fear. Politicians and advertisers, use this as a scare factor to the opponent in a campaign or to manipulate people to vote or buy a product. In this election year we see many appeal to emotion in many politicians’ advertisements against their opponents. Jerry Brown released an attack video about Meg Whitman about we tried this already and it failed. An appeal to spite, the hope of revenge, is invariably rejected as bad by some people on moral grounds strikes me because we use this on people who do not like or have something against another person. For example, an appeal to spite is a lie to another person. Or if another person says something and does the opposite of what he/she tells him to do. I use it even though I hate the person. Its an act of kindness that God wants us to do.