Friday, December 9, 2011

Biggest Logical Fallacy Ever


I just saw this on Facebook. This person clearly doesn't know about logical fallacies.

In case you can't see the picture, it says "James Carville proving everything wrong with the Democratic Party and liberalism in general: "I confess I've never taken an economics course." Obviously this is fallacious because one person can't represent a group...He should've taken our English class.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Happy Studying


A picture of my vocab notecards for the exam, color coded by connotations.
(Notice how many words with negative connotations we have learned this year!! Obviously, we are learning to be analytical writers.)

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Extended Writer's Notebook


Hey! This is your last blog post of the semester, so make it count!

Please select one entry from your Writer's Notebook from the fall semester, and re-write it here as a comment. You may extend the entry or heavily revise it--I just want you to share something you feel proud of or interested in from the semester.