Periodical Test in EAPP-Second Quarter

Proceeds from general ideas/facts to specific inferences.

Derives from specific observations lead to a general conclusion.

All racing cars must go over 80MPH; the Dodge Charger is a racing car, therefore it can go over 80MPH.

All cats have a keen sense of smell. Fluffy is a cat, so Fluffy has a keen sense of smell.

My mother is Irish. She has blond hair. Therefore, everyone from Ireland has blond hair.

Giving logical explanation of the argument.

Presenting statistics, facts, and studies.

Stimulate the reader's emotions.

It summarizes the main idea. It is not just your opinion. It is what you think is true about a topic

It is the importance of your claim. It includes the evidences that comes in various forms, including specific examples quotes and ideas from other opinion.

It is a device to make us follow the crowd, to accept the propagandist’s program en masse. Here his theme is: “Everybody’s doing it.”

A device used by politicians, labor leaders, business men, and even by ministers and educators to win our confidence by appearing to be people just like ourselves.

A device to make us form a judgment without examining the evidence upon which it should be based. Here, the propagandist appeals to our hate and fear. He does this by giving “bad names” to those individuals, groups, nations, races, policies, practices, beliefs, and ideals that he would have us condemn and reject.

A device by which the propagandist identifies his program with virtue by use of “virtue words.”

A device by which the propagandist carries over the authority, sanction, and prestige of something we respect and revere to something he would have us accept.