1. Well, It’s Wednesday, Sept. 23
PALBEG
FIRES
Fact
Incidents
Reasons
Examples/Evidence
Statistics
Fallacies
Bias: Team Name Articles
Your article
Noun Clauses
Homework: complete PALBEG form for your article

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Blockbuster Mouse

3. Logical Fallacies Logic = something that makes sense
Fallacy = an argument that sounds true but isn’t necessarily the truth
Strategies and techniques used to persuade readers and viewers.
Also know as: “faulty logic of reasoning”

4. The Bandwagon “Everyone’s doing it!”
Example: Everyone wears “tommy” perfume, you should too!

5. Broad Generalization
Making a general statement with too little evidence.
Example: All teenagers spend too much time watching TV.

6. Oversimplification Making a complex issue seem really simple.
Example: To be successful in life, you simply need a nice smile.

7. Testimonial/ Transfer-Association
Using the opinion of someone who is not an expert or showing a famous person who “uses” the product.
Example: Eva Longoria for beauty products.

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Jessica Simpson, Pizza Hut

9. Appeal to Emotion Playing on emotions to convince .
Common emotions: fear, pity, ignorance, etc.
Example: Without your help, this child will go hungry.

10. Circular Thinking Proving your point by saying it again.
Example: Students should have a shorter school day so that they don’t have to be in school for as long.

11. Either Or Thinking Showing only two choices: this or that.
Example: America--Love it or leave it.

12. Name-Calling
Labels or names given to viewers, listeners, and/or readers.
Example: Any idiot can see that using this calling plan will save you money.

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Geico - Caveman

14. Card-Stacking
Stacking your points to persuade viewers, listeners, and/or readers without offering the other side.
Example: No money down, no interest, and no payments until Aug, 2007!

15. Plain Folks
Writing, speaking, or advertising geared towards the “average Joe,” everyday person.
Example: Everyday people like you use our toothpaste.

16. False Cause and Effect
Assuming that because one event happens after another, the first event caused the second event.
Example: “I never had allergies problems after I switched to hardwood floors.”

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Revlon Sheryl Crow, first 30 seconds

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T-mobile kids

19. Noun Clauses take the place of a noun or pronoun within an independent clause.
To be subordinate, it is introduced by one of the relative pronouns:
who/whoever, whom/whomever, whose, which/whichever, that Or
When, where, why, how, whether

20. Examples of Noun Clauses
I believe that we’ve met before. (direct object)
His preposterous delusion is that we’ve met before. (complement: predicate noun)
That we have met before is an impossibility. (subject)

21. More Noun Clauses
I bet you say that to whoever catches your eye across a crowded room. (object of a preposition)
I don’t make a habit of giving whoever claims previous friendship my phone number. (indirect object)

22. Types of Sentences Simple: The lithium worked.
Compound: The lithium worked and the mania subsided.
Two or more independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions or semi/colons
Complex: As the lithium took effect, the mania subsided.
One independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
Compound-complex: As the lithium took effect, the mania subsided and the depression lifted.
A compound sentence with one or more dependent clauses

23. Find the dependent clauses!
Police in Minneapolis arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two counterfeit $16 bills.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
If she were life-sized, Barbie’s measurements would be
In order to avoid an attack by a vampire, you should eat as much garlic as possible, keep a crucifix close by, and avoid cemeteries.
Ice cream will actually make you warmer rather than colder because it contains so many calories.

24. Even more clause labeling!
A man in South Africa shot his friend in the face , seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting cans off each other’s head.
A Los Angeles man who later said he was “tired of walking” stole a steamroller and led police on a 5-mph chase until an officer stepped aboard the steamroller and brought the vehicle to a stop.
The writer Oscar Wilde made this statement about Niagara Falls: “Every American bride is taken there, and the sight must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments of married life.”