10.16 - TED Talks

In looking at appeals we have been dealing with ethos, pathos, and logos and completed formal analyses of how these were used. Today, we began looking at the use and interaction of these three appeals in arguments.

To prepare for this, we talked about note-taking reviewing good common practices for note taking. I then gave a 15 minutes presentation on figures of speech in which people took notes (this presentation is available below).

Figurative Language Fallacy

To look at these appeals in action, we took a look at two TED Talks and used a note sheet to track how the appeals were used. In class, we were able to complete the "4 a.m." talk and began the talk by Lawrence Lessig on copyright. We will continue with the Lessig talk tomorrow.

Handouts:

TED Talk Notesheet

Homework:

Have your formal logical fallacy analyses completed for Friday.