Deadline #9 HW#1

This week there was quite a bit reading to go through. Chapter 7 from Everything's An Argument discussed arguments of facts. One of the things that stood out to me in this chapter was how many times people go about creating a factual argument by looking for problems in the world. The posed the steps of 1. find an issue 2. research 3. refine any claims 4. sort through evidence 5. present your evidence. Chapter 8 was about arguments of definition. What I got from this chapter is that arguments of definition are fairly hard to support as they seem to be constantly changing depending on time-frames and demographics. The two main kinds of arguments of definition are formal and operational. Formal being a straight question and operational dealing with conditions. Chapter 17, fallacies of argument dealt with the all the ways we shouldn't conduct an argument. One of my favorites, which I have been accustomed to use myself is the slippery slope argument. Basically it states that for one action, you make a statement about possible outcomes, which are all assumptions. My other favorite was the straw man argument, where you attack a claim that isn't really the main point at hand, to make it look like your argument is correct. Chapter 11 from the Bedford Researcher just went over how to outline correctly.