Writing Arguments suggests that writers avoid using the word prove, stating that the best one can hope for is to…

Aristotle’s concept of the enthymeme focuses on the writer’s need to create what we now call “audience-based reasons.” These are…

Aristotle showed how successful enthymemes root the speaker’s argument in assumptions, beliefs, and values held by the audience.  Listeners or readers must have in mind an assumption, belief, or value that lets them supply the missing premise.  If the audience is unwilling to supply the missing premise, then the argument ___________. 

Writing Arguments suggests that real-world arguments must be grounded in…

A self-announcing or closed-form thesis(guided thesis) does two things: it states the ______________ before beginning the body of the argument, and it __________ the structure to follow. 

Logos refers to…

Any shaking of an infant is dangerous?

When holding a young child always support the _______ and _______

Who said this? “Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou butA dagger of the mind, a false creation,Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

In Shakespeare’s tragedies, the main character tends to have one tragic flaw that is responsible for his downfall. Macbeth’s is: