Thank You for arguing chapter notes
Ch.2-Set your goal
1) The goal is to change your audience’s mood, mind, or willingness
2) An argument should be focused on winning over an audience rather than beating them
3) Decide what you want at the end of the argument
Ch.3-Control the Tense
1) Future tense is the best in an argument
2) A good strategy is to switch tenses in an argument depending on the situation
3) Changing the tense can sometimes result in a smaller conflict with a simpler solution
Ch.4-Soften them up
1) Logos is argument by logic, ethos is argument by character, and pathos is argument by emotion
2) Logos involves winning your audience over with facts and using your opponent’s argument to your own advantage
3) Using
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10-Turn the volume down
1) The passive voice calms the audience and encourages passivity
2) Humor is good in combination with the passive voice during an argument.
3) The previously mentioned combination also works well to calm an audience that is starting to become angry.
Ch.11-Gain the high ground
1) When dealing with a stubborn audience, you need to appeal to their opinions before you appeal to your own
2) You will need to offer the promise that your choice or belief will get the audience what they want
3) You need to find a commonplace between you and your audience in order to begin trying to persuade the audience
Ch.12-Persuade on your terms
1) If you are given terms that don’t necessarily fit your needs, you can redefine them to fit your own needs
2) Another trick is to make your opponent’s most positive words look like negatives
3) You make your opponent’s positive words look like negatives with “definition judo”
Ch.13- Control the argument
1) When using logos in an argument, you start with something true, follow it with another truth and reach a conclusion based on truth
2) Deductive logic starts with a premise and applies it to a specific case to reach a conclusion
3) Inductive
Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion is a title written by the not-so-famous, (but extremely well-versed) Jay Heinrichs. Although the title is indeed a mouthful, it serves its purpose in drawing the reader in. Also; the extremely long title is a little hint of what Heinrichs entails in his book, an endless supply of information on how to correctly and influentially utilize rhetoric, the art of persuasion.
My challenges with my young audience now has become more challenging. Holding their interest may be the least of my worries, now I must persuade them to possibly go against their beliefs
Maybe you don’t have a specific set of claims or beliefs you want your audience to adopt. Even if you do, provide brief responses to the following:
1. An introduction to the problem and a demonstration that the opponent's position is understood.
1. When communicating, messages must be appropriate to the needs of the audience, the subject and the
3. How will you establish credibility with your audience (ethos)? How will you establish yourself as a reliable expert on the subject/topic?
The attitude of audience is based on trust and yours, as writer/presenter, credibility. If attitude is positive, write’s goal is to reinforce and recite the benefits of presentable article. Sometimes, as a write you must anticipate objective and hostile audience; this is a great way to use your best persuasive writing skills.
Logos is persuasion by means of appealing to reason and sense. Use of facts, data and numbers are ways to utilize logos to add weight to one’s arguments. This does not, however, mean that political logos are always reasonable and rational, or even that they are in any way true. In politics, logos is independent of truth. In short, logos is ‘the logical proof that speakers employ; their arguments and rationalizations.’
Part three of How to Win Friends and Influence People is focused on presenting principles of persuasion. This section of the book presents twelve principles that Carnegie recommends adopting if you would like to win people to your way of thinking. These are not necessarily difficult principles to carry out in theory, but they are often overlooked in daily life. When caught up in the troubles of daily life, people may not always think of others first.
Semester B Unit 1 Lesson 12 Introduction and Objective Every text has an intended audience, the person or people it was written to address. The audience then has an opinion of the text during and after it is read. In order to have an opinion, the writing must have ideas that are logically grouped from the text to support the opinion. Today's lesson objective is: • Students will be able to introduce a text to the intended audience.
#3 How to utilize your substance to answer inquiries before your gathering of people sees it.
15. How will you show sensitivity to your audience's needs? First to find common ground using strong words which show a great deal of understanding and care.
Through my reading this week about audience-centeredness, I have gained some additional insights: it is useful for persuading your audience, it helps to plan in advance, and you should address both sides of a situation.
3. PowerPoint _____ should reinforce the speaker’s message and help the audience retain the information
1. Who is the audience for this argument? How does the argument connect with its audience?