ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Canada, Immorality, Pathos

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Ross Clarkson

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Stage one: ask how reasonable or how credible the argument is. Step two: identifying strengths and weaknesses: look for weaknesses in reasoning: logical fallacies: ie. over- generalization, post hoc fallacy, single cause/single outcome, ad hominem, strawman, ask if the reasoning and evidence is reliable, relevant and adequate. Look of weaknesses in evidence: hasty generalizations, trustworthy authorities, sufficient evidence, representative statistics etc. : you need to decide if the overall strengths outweigh the weaknesses or. Step one: forming an opinion about the relationship between strengths and. Step three: categorize and chart strengths and weaknesses. Step two: supporting your claim/opinion: decide what the main supports are for your claim. Step three: indicate your evaluation of the argument: Indicate this by declaring whether you think the argument you are critiquing is credible, logical, convincing. In the critique of the appeal of the androgynous man" below, the author claims that amy gross falsely divides men into two stereotyped categories.