Study Guide

Study Guide

COMM311

Argumentation and Debate

Remember that I will ask you to "ID" several of the following words. You will need to write out answers to questions about the, who, what, where, why, when, how, and the significance.  Remember to write about the significance, you need to address the "so what" question.

  I will also ask you to write out short or long essays and that means write an argument. You will need to evaluate a statement or make an argument about a fact or policy. When you are studying these words and phrases below, think about which ones are too big to be just IDs, as those are the most likely concepts I will ask essay questions about.

You will also need to spend some time studying your assigned current events topic and you should also spend some time reflecting on the class discussions, lecture and the websites I have shared in class.

 

Abstraction

Argument by analogy

Argument by example

Argument from sign

Audience

Bandwagon Fallacy

Casual Correlation

Casual Generalization

Character type

Connotative

Cost

Culture

Current affairs

Deductive reasoning

Denotative

Ethics

Excellence without excuse

Fallacy

False Cause

False Dichotomy

Hasty Generalization

Ill/harm

Inductive reasoning

Leader of opposition

Major premise

Metaphor

Narrative

Narrative fidelity

Narrative paradigm

NPDA

Objective facts

Onion model of organizational culture

Organization is key

Parliamentary debate

Prime Minister

Proposition of fact

Proposition of policy

Proposition of value

Resolution Analysis

Role

Sender/Receiver model of communication c

Slippery slope fallacy

Stasis

Stock issues

Subjective

Syllogism

Symbols

Systems analysis (Systems theory)

Thesis

Values