Does the author use any logical fallacies? If so, name them and explain why they are fallacies. If not, explain why the author’s logic is solid.

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Main Post Paragraph 1: Evaluate an argumentative point
Choose a reading from the assigned pages in your textbook and note how the author addresses an argumentative point in the body of the article (in other words, not in the introduction paragraph(s) nor in the conclusion paragraph(s). Work to find a body point that demonstrates a range of strategies like logic, refutation, and author’s voice.
Then, please take the time to read and re-read the entire piece and your chosen section a few times, jotting down notes to help you, before composing a paragraph that addresses all of the following:
In what ways do you see the author’s voice being used? How does the author’s own voice (not the sources’ voices) drive and frame the argument?
What does the author use for support for the point? (for example, logic created by the author, sources, a combination?) Is this effective, in your view? Why or why not?
Does the author use any logical fallacies? If so, name them and explain why they are fallacies. If not, explain why the author’s logic is solid.
Does the form of this reading match the form of the writing we are learning: full essay paragraphs? If so, explain why and how. If not, explain why you think this particular piece of reading does not use academic essay format and what you might do to revise it. In other words, if there are many short paragraphs, could you put some together to form single paragraphs that are still driven by the author’s voice?
Main Post Paragraph 2: Practice Using Your Voice in a Full Body Paragraph Toward Your Essay
Referring back to the lesson, please compose and present a single, well-developed draft of one body paragraph for our argument research essay, paying special attention to making your voice the driving force and to using solid logic. Remember the parts of a good body paragraph for an argument essay:
Composing a smooth, clear topic sentence in your voice that provides a transition and that asserts your topic for the paragraph
Using your voice to introduce and present your evidence that supports your topic sentence
Using logic in your voice to tie the evidence to your argumentative point
Avoiding logical fallacies
Using concession and rebuttal if you are presenting opposing viewpoints
Ending strongly with your voice in an extended explanation of how all factors involved in this paragraph drive home your argument in this particular point
Making sure to synthesize throughout, with clear connections between all evidence and all of your logic and assertions

Explain how the techniques discussed target a specific audience and work to enforce the message of your ad.

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For this essay, you will use the techniques we’ve been discussing (Lighting, Color scheme, Background, Focus, Angel), to write a rhetorical critique of an image you find in a magazine/online. I would suggest you use an ad, but if you choose not to do so, please come see me and get approval for the image beforehand. Your thesis should address the message and audience of your advertisement.

*Choose 2 techniques about your image to discuss in your essay.

Argument and Support:
You need to explain how the techniques discussed target a specific audience and work to enforce the message of your ad. Consider aspects of the advertisement such as word choice, colors, people, and objects to the company producing this ad/product and the current issues in the world that may be informing the creation and perception of this ad. You will refer to visual techniques such as cropping, juxtaposition, perspective, foreground and background that will inform your analysis of this paper. Think audience, and make sure your argument closes by making a larger claim about the ad, company, consumers, etc.

Organization:
Find a logical progression for your paper; again, come see me if you need help. Be sure to address the message of the ad, the audience addressed, and how the techniques cater to the audience to reinforce the message.
Mechanics and Formatting:
Length: Paper should be 1-2 pages (400-500 words), double spaced, 1” margins around
Font: Times New Roman or Garamond, 12 pt
Formatting: MLA format
Sentence Level Issues: Paper should be almost free of mechanical errors; read your paper out loud or visit the Writing Center in the library if you’re struggling. Feel free to make an appointment with me as well.
REVISION:
Client:
This essay is completely wrong! PLEASE write an essay about “Self-Love Starts With You” and discuss the image & advertisement only in 1 of the paragraphs.”Be sure to address the message of the ad…”PLEASE write an essay about “Self-Love Starts With You” and discuss the image & advertisement only in 1 of the paragraph. Client:
Please listen to me. I want the writer to an 500 word Essay on “Self-Love” which was notes on the instruction sheet. I also want him to discuss the techniques of the image in ONE of the paragraphs

Explain whether or not you find Vlahos’ argument convincing.

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follow APA format be double-spaced, and use proper in-text citations when required. (citations from this article only)

Instructions:
This essay does not require external research (in fact it is not recommended) and is meant to focus exclusively on your response to a specific aspect of a text. Your essay will be a response to one of the following questions. As the idea is that this essay will be a response to a specific text, your essay must be interacting directly with (i.e. providing quoted evidence from and analysis of) a specific text. Note that the goal here isn’t to agree or disagree with a given argument, but rather to engage in a discussion that the argument has created.

—In the Vlahos article, “Alexa, I Need Answers,” there is a suggestion that voice recognition software is not just a new way of searching for information, but a potential drastic change to the way we use the internet and to how the internet itself works. For this question, you are asked to:
i) Give evidence that shows how Vlahos is making this argument (i.e. that voice search is changing the internet as we know it)
ii) Explain whether or not you find Vlahos’ argument convincing. Again, this is not meant to be opinion-based, but rather an examination of the evidence presented. For both i) and ii) here you will need to provide direct evidence from the text to support your analysis.

***Please note: The goal of this assignment is analysis, not summary. Your essay should not focus on summarizing the text. You may wish, for the purposes of explaining the significance of the passage to the overall work, to give a brief summary of the work as a whole or the context around the passage. The main focus of your essay, however, should be on the analysis of the evidence you provide.

Compare and contrast the 2 women in Roman Fever by Edith Wharton.

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Need to compare and contrast the 2 women in Roman Fever by Edith Wharton. The women are Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley. Describe each character carefully, both from descriptions of them
and from their actions. How are their perceptions of themselves and each other
flawed? What deceptions do they carry out? How do the deceptions affect their
lives? Which character seems more conniving and deceitful? Use of a source (minimum of one of the short stories) is required for this essay. At least
two quotations from a short story must be used in each body paragraph. No other
sources should be used or cited in the essay. Adding additional sources may lower your
essay grade. Document your source(s) correctly using MLA format. Analyze in the essay. Find elements that are comparable to create
meaningful insights. This essay must have more than five paragraphs. For the introduction or conclusion, you must have a paragraph where you alternate
sentences about side “a” and side “b” within the paragraph. **Note: This method must be
used for the introduction or conclusion paragraph; however, body paragraphs should
not develop both side “a” and side “b” within one paragraph.
Write one analogy. Use restatement for clarification. Required: Use a colon correctly in a restatement.
This is considered a formal essay following the rules of Standard Written English. Type it double-spaced on the computer. Use 12-point Times New Roman and
one-inch margins.
b. Include a title.
c. In the header include your name, instructor’s name, course and section number,
and date on separate double-spaced lines in the upper left-hand corner. In the
upper right corner on each page, put your last name and page number. Write an essay 1,000-1,250 words in length (at least three full pages; no more than five
pages).

When is the best age for a child to begin owning a smartphone

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When is the best age for a child to begin owning a smartphone

Describe the contribution of each instrument to the achievement of national strategic objectives.

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For this reflection, write a 2–3 page paper addressing the following:

First describe the importance of synchronizing the application of all instruments to achieve national objectives during military operations.
Describe the contribution of each instrument to the achievement of national strategic objectives. Provide examples to demonstrate their application.
Your final paragraph of the paper should focus on your reflections about the topic and what you may have experienced in your own work or life or how the material applies to you.

Compose five body paragraphs each of which contains a topic sentence, separate sentences of detail, and separate sentences of elaboration. Focus on objects and their symbolic meanings, not on characters and their actions.

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Compose five body paragraphs each of which contains a topic sentence, separate sentences of detail, and separate sentences of elaboration. Focus on objects and their symbolic meanings, not on characters and their actions. Avoid assertions of sequence. Quote accurately and blend quotations into sentences of your own.

Compose the conclusion

Sum up (don’t summarize). What do the many details (15 or so) add up to?

What’s the big news? What should every reader take away from “Sonny’s Blues”? About five sentences, not a paragraph

Compose the introduction

Specify the subject of the essay: “Sonny’s Blues”

Specify the approach of the essay: analysis of symbols in several settings

Describe how intellectual and achievement assessment has progressed throughout history.

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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Much assessment of learning disorders and other disabilities that impact learning are assessed by psychologists and counselors in the school system. Why would a counselor outside the school system need to keep up to date with the most commonly used tests as well?

Assignment Content

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on intellectual and achievement assessment. Include the following:
– Describe how intellectual and achievement assessment has progressed throughout history.
– Compare two to three commonly used intellectual assessments.
– Compare two to three commonly used achievement assessments.
– Explain the effect of testing bias on the client in the private and school-based settings.

Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

Write a response in which you provide a self-reflection about your experience with multi-tasking.

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Based on your reading of “What Cocktail Parties Teach Us : The Brain Is Wired to Focus on Just One Thing; Which Tasks Are Easier to Combine”Preview the document by Melinda Beck and your viewing of the Frontline episode “Digital Nation”, discuss your experience with multitasking and state your position on the claims made in the reading and video.
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVES/LEARNING OUTCOMES
Identify and share how opinions and evidence come together in critical thinking and analysis.
Examine unstated premises and hidden assumptions that arise from the social, historical, moral, cultural, psychological, or aesthetic contexts in which the primary texts and critical analysis of those texts exist.
Analyze contexts of a text (fiction and/or non-fiction) and their impact on the argument presented.
Synthesize, paraphrase, and/or quote from primary and secondary sources while adhering to most recent MLA documentation guidelines.
INSTRUCTIONS
Read the article “What Cocktail Parties Teach Us : The Brain Is Wired to Focus on Just One Thing; Which Tasks Are Easier to Combine” by Melinda Beck AND watch “Digital Nation”. Use both the reading and the video to support your response to the following prompt.
Write a response in which you provide a self-reflection about your experience with multi-tasking. When and why have you had to multitask? This could be work, school, home, etc. Do you think you are an effective multitasker? (according the article only 2.5% of people can multitask efficiently) If so, explain what makes you an efficient multitasker; if not explain why you think you are not.
For the second part of your response, write whether you agree with the argument that, “…people aren’t very good at multitasking—our brains are wired for ‘selective attention’ and can focus on only one thing at a time” (Beck 1). Be sure to provide reasons and evidence from the text and/or video to support your position on this argument.
Text component (typed draft) should be 2 full pages (independent of Works Cited page – that will be your page 3), but no more than 4 in MLA format. Attach as a Word document (.doc, .docx, Google doc, or PDF)
You must integrate at least 4 direct source material (quotes, data, paraphrased information/facts, analysis) from the reading or video. For the video you can use a timestamp when you incorporate the source; your citation would look like this: (Goodman 1:21) – this notes that the quote or summary/paraphrase of the source is from the 1 hour and 21-second mark. You do not have to put an end time on the citation.
This essay allows for first-person use (I, me, etc.), which we normally try to avoid in essay drafts. Because part of this is a self-reflection, it is expected that you will use first-person in your essay draft.
Create a Works Cited page for the source/reading provided. I have included all the necessary bibliographic here for your Works Cited page, excluding the optional sources you find to support your response. Be sure to properly format your Works Cited page in MLA.
Beck, Melinda. “What Cocktail Parties Teach Us : The Brain Is Wired to Focus on Just One Thing; Which Tasks Are Easier to Combine.” The Wall Street Journal, 23 Apr. 2012, WSJ.com.
Goodman, Rachel Dretzin., et al. Digital Nation . Widescreen version., WGBH Educational Foundation, 2010.
Total pages 3 with the Works Cited page.

Prepare an action-oriented presentation that includes concisely your analysis and recommendations.

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Thrifty Car Rental Case Study 12.1
Presenting Case-Study ( THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION)
When you present a report of a case study, assume that you are a Chief Service Officer, and your audience is a General Manager of your company and Executive Team, which may consist of COO, Regional Vice-Presidents of Operations, Marketing and Finance, who asked you to review the facts and make a recommendation. Prepare an action-oriented presentation that includes concisely your analysis and recommendations. The presentation should reflect:
A. Service Company “Service Strategy”
B. Service Company elements of “Strategic Service Vision” (p. 29)
C. Service Company “Service Package” (p. 17 – p. 18)
D. Answers to the case-study questions
E. Statement of the Problem (if any)
– Definition of Alternatives (“best case” vs. “worst case”)
– Discussion of Alternatives
F. Conclusion (your recommendations to the company, and potential “next steps”)
G. Additional Comments
Case presentations in class will usually be limited to 15. It will NOT be possible for you to cover everything that is in the case-study in this allotted time.
Your presentation should have a strong opening and closing. Make sure that you clearly identify the problem (if any). The primary focus of the presentation should be on what you recommend and why. This may require you to synthesize materials from several sources: case-study, textbook, in-class material and discussion, and material, found in the resources beyond the class.
4. ‘Solutions’ (EXECUTIVE MEMO)
Student need to hand in a 1-page Executive Memorandum (memo) to recap the Case-Study “service tools”, problem (if any) and presented solutions. The audience of the newsletter is the executive management team of the company described in the case-study. You are selling your ideas to management. It is your opportunity to be persuasive. The Memo should be professional, succinct, and relay the issue-solution at-a-glance. Spelling, grammatical, and typographical errors indicate a lack of professionalism. The quality of the report matters more than its length.
This executive memo typically consists of four paragraphs: (1) Opening (briefly describe the main points in the case-study, including company strategy, vision, service package); (2) Answers (your answers to the case-study questions); (3) Problems-Solutions (description of any uncovered problems the company is facing and offering your solutions); and (4) Closing (suggest program of action – how to improve service management in this company).