Monday, March 28, 2005
Oh Yeah? well...CAUSE T H I S!!!!!!
Somebody call Rob and tell him break is over! He's still in Cancun!
Causal Speech Tips:
1. Don't be aburrido! (Spanish for what???????? Rhymes with "snoring"....)
2. Relate your cause to three effects.
3. Use shock and awe attention getters. You may want to bring first aid for fainting audience members, Charlie!
4. Examples:
a. Gun control laws reduce violent crimes.
b. A one parent families causes more independent children
c. Competitive sports for college students causes success later in business.
d. TV violence causes school shootings.
e. Jeff P's jokes cause laughter, which cause relaxation and bonding which in turn, cause an enhanced learning envoronment and better Coms Two productivity. (chain of causation)
f. Jeff P's jokes are disruptive during class and cause Lindsey to miss important learning opportunities.
g. Positive effects of Sarah's evaluative speech on travel included more students traveled over Spring Break, Kim and Jennifer watched movies ABOUT traveling and finally, the Board of Tourism noted a dramatic increase in tickets purchased by Sac State Coms 2 students. Guy went to Italy.
To Get Credit For This Week's Post:
In five sentences, minimum, tell us something about you as an audience member that will help the speakers reach you and better analyze their audience. Use our class for examples. I'll go first.
Causal Speech Tips:
1. Don't be aburrido! (Spanish for what???????? Rhymes with "snoring"....)
2. Relate your cause to three effects.
3. Use shock and awe attention getters. You may want to bring first aid for fainting audience members, Charlie!
4. Examples:
a. Gun control laws reduce violent crimes.
b. A one parent families causes more independent children
c. Competitive sports for college students causes success later in business.
d. TV violence causes school shootings.
e. Jeff P's jokes cause laughter, which cause relaxation and bonding which in turn, cause an enhanced learning envoronment and better Coms Two productivity. (chain of causation)
f. Jeff P's jokes are disruptive during class and cause Lindsey to miss important learning opportunities.
g. Positive effects of Sarah's evaluative speech on travel included more students traveled over Spring Break, Kim and Jennifer watched movies ABOUT traveling and finally, the Board of Tourism noted a dramatic increase in tickets purchased by Sac State Coms 2 students. Guy went to Italy.
To Get Credit For This Week's Post:
In five sentences, minimum, tell us something about you as an audience member that will help the speakers reach you and better analyze their audience. Use our class for examples. I'll go first.
Oh Yeah? well...CAUSE T H I S!!!!!!
Welcome back..(HEY: Somebody call Rob and tell him breaks over. He 's still in Cancun in a grass skirt...) Tips for causal arguments, since speeches begin next week (if you went on Monday for def and evals, you go Wed this time)
1. Riz....This means you: No OBVIOUS cause and effect arguments. ie: lack of water causes thirst...B O R I N G !!!! (aburrido in Spanish!) Pot causes the munchies.....Don't even think about it Jeffrey!!!!!! (You either Raquel!!!!)
2. Interesting types of causes include: background or little known causes, hidden causes, whack, or battez causes.
ie: Major Claim): Bananas are NOT the best source of potassium, did you know? .........Pause for the shock and awe attention getting response. Some students may actually faint, SO bring first aid, Scott.
3. (therefore) Eating avacados causes healthy potassium levels and (because/ evidence) they are better for you than bananas, better for the farming/soil environment and your purchase keeps the California economy booming instead of supporting banana growers outside of our state by buying bananas ! (Three examples of evidence connecting to EFFECTS that will be supported in the body of the speech.)
4. The audience: Will Kevin or Matt care/understand/agree/disagree? Will Scott and Jon even believe that Tomatoes cause the same effects as avacdos? Why should Christina and Tatyana even believe YOU? (Unless/reservation): )ie: Maybe Sara, Jonah, Natalie and Michelle's parent ALWAYS chopped up Banana's for their childhood breakfast cereal...avacados just ARE NOT the same!!!!! They will NOT be persuaded by your meaningful potassium plea...You can't eat avacados on Cheerios, they cry, interupting your speech...COME ON!!!!!!! uunnlleesssss.....guacomole on an egg burrito esta muy, muy delisioso y calliente, amigos! Breakfast problem solved!
4. CUT TO DREAM SEQUENCE:
Sarah, Julie, Recka...even Michelle and Charlie now believe your beautiful causal argument, Lindsey...which they indicate by nodding until spraining their necks and standing and clapping vigorously until their hands bleed. Being an insightful, as well as fashionable Teaching Associate, SANDRA notices this obvious sign of your DEEP audience analysis and contacts the dean of Com Studies to insist that a new grade, one far Better than an A+, be developed in your honor. You are a hero. Avacado farmers throughout California rejoice and erect statues in your honor.
NO LATE BIBLIOGRAPHIES OR TOPIC PROPSALS, EVERYTHING IS DUE WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR SPEECH!
1. Riz....This means you: No OBVIOUS cause and effect arguments. ie: lack of water causes thirst...B O R I N G !!!! (aburrido in Spanish!) Pot causes the munchies.....Don't even think about it Jeffrey!!!!!! (You either Raquel!!!!)
2. Interesting types of causes include: background or little known causes, hidden causes, whack, or battez causes.
ie: Major Claim): Bananas are NOT the best source of potassium, did you know? .........Pause for the shock and awe attention getting response. Some students may actually faint, SO bring first aid, Scott.
3. (therefore) Eating avacados causes healthy potassium levels and (because/ evidence) they are better for you than bananas, better for the farming/soil environment and your purchase keeps the California economy booming instead of supporting banana growers outside of our state by buying bananas ! (Three examples of evidence connecting to EFFECTS that will be supported in the body of the speech.)
4. The audience: Will Kevin or Matt care/understand/agree/disagree? Will Scott and Jon even believe that Tomatoes cause the same effects as avacdos? Why should Christina and Tatyana even believe YOU? (Unless/reservation): )ie: Maybe Sara, Jonah, Natalie and Michelle's parent ALWAYS chopped up Banana's for their childhood breakfast cereal...avacados just ARE NOT the same!!!!! They will NOT be persuaded by your meaningful potassium plea...You can't eat avacados on Cheerios, they cry, interupting your speech...COME ON!!!!!!! uunnlleesssss.....guacomole on an egg burrito esta muy, muy delisioso y calliente, amigos! Breakfast problem solved!
4. CUT TO DREAM SEQUENCE:
Sarah, Julie, Recka...even Michelle and Charlie now believe your beautiful causal argument, Lindsey...which they indicate by nodding until spraining their necks and standing and clapping vigorously until their hands bleed. Being an insightful, as well as fashionable Teaching Associate, SANDRA notices this obvious sign of your DEEP audience analysis and contacts the dean of Com Studies to insist that a new grade, one far Better than an A+, be developed in your honor. You are a hero. Avacado farmers throughout California rejoice and erect statues in your honor.
NO LATE BIBLIOGRAPHIES OR TOPIC PROPSALS, EVERYTHING IS DUE WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR SPEECH!
Monday, March 07, 2005
Look at this Cute Puppy: Now Send Me Money! Emotional Appeals are Battez!
ABSOLUTELY NO LATE FALLACY ASSIGNMENTS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WILL BE ACCEPTED (Caps are like yelling, huh? That's a scare tactic fallacy, sorry...)
Good places to start:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.serc.si.edu/
http://www.fguardians.org/
http://www.ecomall.com/activism/activism.htm
http://whistler.sierraclub.org/action/tamain?alid=287&st=curr
http://www.waste-not-basket.com/
http://www.pathtofreedom.com/links/activism/environment.shtml
http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/040122.asp (this one features Leo DiCaprio!)
and for tips on fallacies and how to identify them:
http://www.cuyamaca.net/bruce.thompson/Fallacies/intro_fallacies.asp
http://www.philosophy.eku.edu/Williams/HON102Web/falsec-web.htm
http://www.curedisease.com/falaciousreasoning.html
Remember: Highlight the portion of the ad or article you are claiming holds a fallacy: Use Yellow
Remember: Correct at least five of the fallacies you identify!
Remember a complete bibliography! (APA/MLA)
Remember: You can repeat 2, that's two of your favorite fallacies
Remember: Battez is ""whack"" in French! Recycling is so NOT battez!
Anyone want to post their own suggestions to help the rest of the class? Anyone? ANYONE????
Good places to start:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.serc.si.edu/
http://www.fguardians.org/
http://www.ecomall.com/activism/activism.htm
http://whistler.sierraclub.org/action/tamain?alid=287&st=curr
http://www.waste-not-basket.com/
http://www.pathtofreedom.com/links/activism/environment.shtml
http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/040122.asp (this one features Leo DiCaprio!)
and for tips on fallacies and how to identify them:
http://www.cuyamaca.net/bruce.thompson/Fallacies/intro_fallacies.asp
http://www.philosophy.eku.edu/Williams/HON102Web/falsec-web.htm
http://www.curedisease.com/falaciousreasoning.html
Remember: Highlight the portion of the ad or article you are claiming holds a fallacy: Use Yellow
Remember: Correct at least five of the fallacies you identify!
Remember a complete bibliography! (APA/MLA)
Remember: You can repeat 2, that's two of your favorite fallacies
Remember: Battez is ""whack"" in French! Recycling is so NOT battez!
Anyone want to post their own suggestions to help the rest of the class? Anyone? ANYONE????
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Guest Blogger Christina F. !!!! (LOUD APPLAUSE)
Ladies and Gentlemen, all the way from Sacramento's eight-mile in Mendocino Hall, I present, Arg-YOU-mentation's very first special guest blogger! Nothing short of BRILLIANT & insightful, COMS 2 superstar and newly-successful definitional speech-maker Christina F. (2005) states "for the blog this topic is fairly new its about the rap group G-unit and the rapper 50 cent. To make a long story short 50 doesn't like Ja Rule and one of the rappers in G-Unit called The Game wasn't backing 50 up on the whole beef between the two so he got kicked out!um im not sure if you really want to use it but its an argument in itself" (personal email, March 2. 2005). ASSIGNMENT: For this blog, in order to get credit, you MUST respond to Christina's prompt and connect it to either the hasty generalization fallacy and/OR issues of evaluation for the next speech...go here for more scoop on the big controversy if this topic interests you http://www.mtv.com/bands/j/ja_rule/news_feature_031103/index2.jhtml (a correct Hasty G AND Evaluation will earn TWO points this week.Post your own Fallacy Wrap Name. Mine is Hasty G, so don't be a hater, ah-ight??CONGRATULATIONS for getting through the first and scariest speech of the semester! Peace, out--Hasty G in dah Howse
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