Final Exam Flashcards
What do you do to ask inclusive questions?
-Open Ended
-Non-Biased
-Single Question>Multiple questions at once
In a memo. what information should you include after your name in the “From:” section?
Title
Initials in blue
Relevance Statement is…
Reason for writing the memo
Thesis statement is
your recommendation
Preview statement is
providing the layout/organization of your memo
Topic sentence is..
the main argument
What is the 5/3 rule?
5: no more than 5 sentences in a paragraph
3: you don’t want 1 individual sentence that is 3 lines or more
What is included in the last paragraph of a memo?
-Deductive Logic
-Synthesis of previous arguments
-Implementation statement/ action steps
Strategic Implementation of Ideas: Presentation, Layout
- Attention Getter
- Relevance
- Credibility
- Thesis
- Preview/ Agenda
- Body
- Conclusion
How to overcome nervousness:
-Engage in cognitive restructuring
-Take diaphragmatic breaths
-Avoid drinking caffeine right before presenting
-Use your space and gesture
Structure of Executive Summary
-Problem/ Need
-Solution/Value proposition
-Action
Ethos
Credibility
Pathos
Emotion
Logos
Logic
Toulmin Model: Logical Argumentation
- Claim
- Grounds(evidence)
- Warrant (explain why grounds supports claim)
- Backing: offers support for reliability of the warrant
- Qualifier: provides cases when claim is true
- Rebuttal: Identifies and refutes objections
Ad Hominem (Personal Attack)
Attacking a person for a character trait, rather than the quality or soundness of their argument
Appeal to misplaced authority
accepting the testimony of experts outside of their field
Bandwagon
Majority of other people will support
-Trying to prove a conclusion
Red Herring
Ignoring the question and changing the issue at hand
Begging the question also circular reasoning
Providing a premise that is also your conclusion
-Re wording your ideas without adding new logic
Hasting generalization
considering certain, exceptional cases and generalizing to different broader cases
-assuming a group of people do something just because one person does
False Cause
Incorrectly assuming one event causes another
GPT stands for
Generative pre trained transformer
Where do you put your name tag at an event
Left side over your heart