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 THESIS
STATEMENT
Thesis Statement
-A thesis statement is a complete
sentence that contains one main idea.
This idea controls the content of the
entire essay.
-A thesis statement that contains sub
points also helps a reader know how
the essay will be organized.
Deductive
Inductive
Implicit
Explicit
Reading Text
Critically
Critical Reading
• Critical reading requires you to evaluate
the arguments in the text. It involves
scrutinizing any information that you
read
• an active process of discovery because
when you read critically, you are not just
receiving information but also making an
interaction with the writer.
Things to consider in reading critically
A.Purpose and background
B.The author and the text
C.Evidence used
D.Assumptions made
 MAN WITH THE HOE
BY EDWIN MARKHAM

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans   

Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,   

The emptiness of ages in his face,

And on his back the burden of the world.   

Who made him dead to rapture and despair,   

A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,

Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?   

 Logical
Fallacies
 Hasty generalization
D a H e e , t h e The sample is not
Le e
foreign e r fr o m significant or enough
r e a , i s
South K o to support a
i m p o l i te .
very m e a n generalization about
r ea n s a r e
Ko a population
d r u d e .
an
 Post Hoc
One event is said to be
the cause of a later
event simply because
it occurred earlier
 False Cause
You presumed that a
real or perceived
relationship between
things means that one is
the cause of the other
 Dicto simpliciter
Occurs when one makes
is g oo d .
Exer c is e a sweeping statement
re f ore ,
The and expects it to be true
r y b o d y
eve is e. of specific case.
u l d e x erc
sho
 Ad Misericordiam

ire m e an argument based

Pl eas e , h
bec au s e I h a v e 8 on an appeal to the
f e ed
mouths t o emotions
Poisoning the Well
Attacking the
opponent before they
can present their
argument
 Contradictory Premises

a n d o
If God c
g , t h e n The premises of
anythin
c a n h e m a k e a the argument
h a t i s
ston e t
s i bl e t o contradict
impos
lift?
 Hypothesis Contrary to Fact

n o t c a l le d
If I h a d The hypothesis that
y o u a n d begins the argument is
e d y o u
remind t , untrue- no evidence to
ut t h e t es
a b o ld support it.
u re ly w o u
yo u s
a il e d it .
have f
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