1. LOGIC!

2. How do we use logic to back up a claim? • Discuss your assigned question. State your position on the issue as a group and support with specific details. • What is the strongest motivator for us to do the work we do? • What is the biggest way that work shapes or influences our lives? • Which is the stronger motivator: internal factors or external ones? • Can America honestly be called “the land of opportunity”? Why or why not? • What about the claims and supports that you created and heard would you consider “logical”? • How do we define “logic”?

3. LOGOS: Appealing to logic • Claims need support for an audience to trust you as a writer. • Two main types of support: • Hard evidence • Facts, Statistics, Surveys and Polls, Testimonies and Narratives • Reason and Common Sense • Drawing conclusions and making inferences • In the absence of hard evidence, reason and common sense can make an effective argument. • BUT a balance of both is likely to be more persuasive.

4. Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning • Inductive Reasoning: generalizing based on a number of specific examples. Specific to general • I get hives after eating crawfish • My mouth swells up when I eat clams • Shrimp triggers my asthma • Shellfish makes me sick • Deductive Reasoning: reaching a logical conclusion based on a general principle. General to specific • Shellfish makes me sick • Lobster is a type of shellfish • Lobster will make me sick

5. Inductive or Deductive? Courtney: Are there any good Italian restaurants in town? Louis: Yeah, Pietro’s is pretty good. I have had their rigatoni, their lasagna, and their ravioli. I don’t think you can go wrong with their pasta dishes. Inductive

6. Inductive or Deductive If Adam walked to the game, then he didn’t drive to the game. Adam didn’t drive to the game. Adam must have walked to the game. Deductive