An Analysis Of Kathryn Schulz 's Writing, An Essay, Evidence, And Self Subversive Thinking

Although Bitzer continues in the third section of his essay, by outlining the general characteristics or features of a rhetorical situation, it is his discussion of sophistical rhetoric that is most interesting. (11) He notes that a sophistic situation is one where a contrived exigence is, “asserted to be real... alleged constituents are due to error or ignorance,... and [it derives] from fantasy in which exigence, audience, and constraints may all be imaginary objects of a mind at play”. (11) He concludes that, “rhetoric is distinguished from the mere craft of persuasion which, although it is a legitimate object of scientific investigation, lacks philosophical warrant as a practical discipline”. (14)

In the article “Unteaching the Five Paragraph Essay”, Marie Foley intere that the five paragraph essay format is blameworthy of high school graduate unpreparedness for college coursework and the need of remedial classes. Foley stated that “Many college freshman enter composition course alienated from writing”(P.2) Foley also claim that “teaching the five paragraph formula this harms student in some fundamental ways….i'll-preparing them for academic and real world writing”(P.3) This paper is going to analyse Marie foley article by brake down the reason and problem behind the Five paragraph essay.

“Evidence” by Kathryn Schulz Is an article about how accurate is the evidence that we have to form beliefs, an argues whether or not ours beliefs are true or “partially” true .She explains that what we only care about the probability that our answer might be true when solving a problem and we based that answer with our previously experiences in life. We used our inductive reasoning to make our best guess on every situation and she argues that or inductive reasoning is more complex than choosing a “probable “answer it contains “virtually all human cognition”. What stand out to me is what she later countered argues what she say before by saying that we learn language by inductive reasoning and that we did not have evidence to supported how we

Heinrichs breaks down details about the art and execution of rhetoric and arguing. He goes

With the first batch of surveyed jurors, the study found that the more often jurors watched a crime show (in this study CSI was the main crime show in question) the more accurate they thought the show was. Also, the study found that 46.3% of jurors expected to see some scientific evidence in every case, 21.9% expected to see DNA evidence in every case, and 36.4% expected to see fingerprint evidence in every case. With this information, the study found that the jurors who watched CSI had higher expectations for the presence of scientific evidence compared to the jurors who did not watch CSI. It is important to note, however, that even though the CSI jurors had higher expectations those expectations did not equate to higher rates of acquittals

1.In the piece of writing by Jessica Statsky, she writes about children 's sports and how they should not be competitive. In making this claim she uses certain evidence to make her point valid. In one of her pieces of evidence she uses states that, "That a twelve-year-old trying to throw a curve ball, for example, may put abnormal strain on developing arm and shoulder muscles, sometimes resulting in lifelong injuries: (Statsky, 350). From this evidence Statsky is trying to make the claim that sports are hurting children and could put a risk on their bodies and the development of their bodies, if they put too much strain on themselves. Another piece of information Stasky uses says, "The kids get so scared. They get hit once and they don 't wont anything to do with football anymore. They 'll sit on the bench and pretend their leg hurts" (Stasky, 350). In the evidence that Stasky uses is good, but it is not very ordinary situations that occur. She also does not provide any personal experience to go along with her writing. Which in the end, would make the paper sound better and let the audience know that she has her own experiences with playing sports at a young age.

Thesis Statement: Naughton’s overall goal in this article was for the audience to consider both sides of the argument and create their own belief upon the matter by using rhetorical choices such as appealing to expert opinions, statistics used in a poll, the tone and advanced diction.

Directions (based on the Rhetorical Analysis assignment from chapter 2 of The Call to Write).

For Kathryn Schulz description in the reading “Evidence” she presents a vivid viewpoint over inductive inclinations or inductive thinking. Inductive thinking may be a method for speculation that structures our feelings as stated by those path we were brought up or those society we are starting with (Schulz).

Sometimes, when people hold beliefs, they rarely and deliberately search for counterevidence that disproves their beliefs. This leads to people having confirmation-bias. Kathryn Schulz describes confirmation bias in her book Being Wrong as "the tendency to give more weight to evidence that confirms our beliefs than to evidence that challenges them" (Schulz 124). In my experience, people sometimes completely dismiss evidence that counters their beliefs, no matter what the source of the information is. As an example, one of the beliefs that I had was that the drinking age should be lowered by a few years to give young adults the chance to find out how alcohol affects them, so that they can make more responsible choices. What I had not considered,

Before my father died, I worked for him as his bookkeeper. He had seventeen apartments that he owned and managed as a post retirement business. Since I was in North Carolina and he was in Philadelphia he would summon me for the weekend to update his books. As time went on he began to talk about passing his business on to one of his five children. After much discussion and voting it was decided that my oldest sister would inherit the properties and manage them. The goal was to maintain the properties and hopefully expand the enterprise thereby benefitting the five children and their descendants.

The young Aileen Wuornos was a poster child for why the Department Children’s Services is in existence. From the very start, it can be argued that her life was being dictated or set in motion by her early upbringing, or lack thereof. Her descent into criminal behavior, started at approximately age 9-11 by prostituting herself for money, food, beer, and cigarettes. This type of behavior is not something a normal 9-11 year old intuitively knows, but rather, has to be learned. This, to me, questions her culpability at this age.

In Evidence, by Kathryn Schulz claims "we" form our judgement on evidence that people assume it is true. "We" base our "specific and formal ideas about evidence [by] - what kind of information qualifies, how to gather it, how to evaluate it" (Schulz, 363) and "form them, as judges form their opinions and juries reach their decisions, based on the evidence" (Schulz, 363). Schulz emphasize the difference between "we" humans and computers by providing readers with "easy" multiple choice quiz. Schulz then believed that the readers "found this quiz so easy that [readers] don’t think congratulations are called for. But... this quiz is not easy [,at least for computers]" (Schulz, 365). So "why is [this quiz] so effortless for a person all but impossible

It is often thought that the reality that is being expressed in spoken word is the very same as the reality which is being perceived in thought. Perception and expression are frequently understood to be synonymous and it is assumed that our speech is mostly based on our thoughts. This idea presumes that what one says is dependent of how it is encoded and decoded in the mind. (Badhesha, 2002) In any case, there are numerous individuals that trust the inverse: what one sees is reliant on the talked word. The supporters of this thought trust that thinking is reliant on language. Linguistic Edward Sapir and his understudy Benjamin Lee Whorf are known as far as concerns them in the promotion of this very guideline. Their aggregate hypothesis, known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, also known as theory of linguistic relativity, relativism, determinism, Whorfian hypothesis or even Whorfianism. Initially talked about by Sapir in 1929, the speculation got to be prominent in the 1950s after post mortem production of Whorf's works on the subject. After incredible assault

The central message of Being Wrong, by Kathryn Schulz, is that although nobody likes being wrong, it is a central part of our existence and we should learn how to accept it and make the most of it. While I do agree with Schulz that being wrong is a necessary function to learn, recognizing this fact and acting with the idea in mind that failure is acceptable will deeply hamper your chances of succeeding. Nowadays, it seems to be fashionable to talk about how acceptable failure is. We are told that life is one big experiment, Carpe Diem, do what makes you happy. This is a recipe for certain failure. It is imperative to view failure as unacceptable, and continue striving for perfection; if you are satisfied with failure, you will never succeed.