Wednesday, November 7, 2012

STRIKE 1, STRIKE, 2, AND YOU’RE OUT!



Now we are in the middle of our argumentative journey through the rich pages of Jay Heinrich that leak rhetoric all over your desk. No literally we are in the middle of the book all jokes aside. That blank page called “DEFENSE” IN BOLD AND CAPITAL LETTERS MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A DOOR YOU WISH YOU NEVER OPENED! Actually, it’s one of the best opportunities to walk out of an argument owning the place like a boss (my 9gag friends understand), and feeling good about it afterwards. In Chapter 15 the title says it all. I learned certain foul plays that can catch up to you when you’re gambling with logic. Let’s take the fallacy of power to introduce our weakness of appealing to authority.

Me: Well if the principle thinks “Pro-Kindness” is a great title, then we should put the rest aside.
Typical Wise-Face reply: Are you seriously going to go with it just because the principle likes it? Jesus! I mean have some personality and be original for once.


But wait a second? How can she attack me like that? After all the High School principle is the judge of our work and is probably going to like it just a little more if the title was previously approved. I guess we can go all Hurricane Sandy and mix everything up, but won’t we be risking our final grade?

Another cock-blocker in persuasion is when you start to argue the inarguable. You must really be struggling with your persuasive tequenique because if you start to get rough and abusive, that can lead to a point where your goals are clouded and your words don’t even make sense. Stick with the argument and “remains intent on real persuasion” (158). Looking back at previous lessons I’m sure I can point out other epic fails (once again up top for my 9gag buds) when it comes to persuasion.  In Andrea De La Torre’s blog, she points out that  in many arguments, when you don´t have anything more to say, you start to babble. According to Andrea, “Babbling can be easy to see when you are talking to close friends or to a small group of people, since their commonplace is more likely to be the same or similar.”

1 comment:

  1. I would have liked to have seen some more fallacies here.

    Also - I´m not sure if the vulgar word you employ is appropriate.

    ¨Leak rhetoric should be ¨spill rhetoric.¨

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