While reading Two Ways of Knowing by James Bradley, I was on a spring break trip to Alabama. In Alabama, I was with golf team golfing at a tournament. The hold trip was filled with chances to use inductive reasoning. One example of inductive reasoning I did was if I should work on homework on the bus, sleep, or read. This example is weak, but the outcomes have strong outcomes either way I go. In doing homework, I would have it done and not have to worry about it when I got back from the trip. However, if I didn’t do homework, I would be struggling to get everything done when I got back to campus. In the end, I choose to do a combination of all three choice, and I am recovering from that choice. Another example of inductive reasoning
In “Reading, Reasoning, and Writing”, James Crosswhite teaches the reader to reason in order to formulate a convincing argument. After reading a piece, the first step is to think of a controversial question. Finding a question is hard, so Crosswhite suggests that you ask five questions: Who? What? When? Where? How? It’s also important to take note of things that you don’t understand or seems contradictory. He also suggests that the best questions can be the ones that are left unsaid. There are six types of stasis questions that make for an enthymeme including questions of fact, questions of definition, questions of interpretation, questions of value, questions of cause and effect, and questions of policy. After finding a question, you need
In a play, the audience should be intrigued and ready for what is to come next. It is a play that works by understanding. It has the audience on their seat to make them be part of the play. Susan Glaspell wrote a play based on an actual murder. “In the process of completing research for a biography of Susan Glaspell, [she] discovered the historical source upon which Trifles ...Glaspell covered the case and the subsequent trial when she was a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News”(Ben-Zvi 143). In the early nineteen-hundreds women were seen as weak. They were females knew the understanding of every clue that was leading to the case and the reasoning behind it.
As we worked our way through the semester we moved from the Change Project to the Public Argument. I was able to look back at how one essay was developed into multiple essays. The type of paper I was writing determined how I was able to persuade my audience. The audience of the papers changed throughout the semester making the way I developed my paper also changed. In one essay I used the sources to persuade the readers towards agreeing with me. In the other essay I used my own words and thoughts to grab the reader’s attention and have them agree with my point of view on the issue. While one essay was a more formal audience and another was more informal the both required persuasion and attention grabbers. One audience was grasped by the use of facts while the other was grasped by talking about experiences and explaining how the topic related to the audience. While the paper was different each paper required some type of persuasion.
Imagine two people are arguing; one person is clearly right, but the other person is obviously winning. Why is this? People that make convincing arguments are usually the ones who can vouch for their character and make the audience think that they should believe them. Along with making people think they are trustworthy they must also appeal to human emotion. Change the way they feel and it will change the way they think. Finally, the argument must be reasonable and logical to the people who need convincing. The person who wins the argument isn’t always right, but they were able to convince an audience that they were by vouching for their character, appealing to human emotion, and by creating a reasonable and logical justification. In the essay,
‘“It’s not that it makes you more intelligent,” says Phoebe, a history student. “It’s just that it helps you work. You can study for longer. You don’t get distracted. You’re actually happy to go to the library and you don’t even want to stop for lunch. And then it’s like 7pm, and you’re still, ‘Actually, you know what? I could do another hour.’” (Cadwalladr)
This paper will dispute that scientific beliefs are not the right way to accept a belief and it will question if we should let one accept their rights to their own beliefs. In Williams James article Will to Believe, we accept his perspective on how we set and fix our beliefs. This paper will first outline his overview on the argument that someone does not choose their belief but rather one just has them. Following, it will outline my perspective on how we set our beliefs and agreement with purse. Then it will explain how other methodologies such as science cannot conclude to one’s true beliefs. Science has been seen as a way to perceive life and taken to consideration as the truth. This paper should conclude that humans define ourselves by
If one were to open up a thesaurus, he or she would find that the word theoretical is synonymous to knowledge-based notion and academia, while the word practical lays equivalent to empirical thought and heuristics. The distinction between the two concepts’ definitions suggests that a person would not be able to identify with both words. One is strictly based in pure logic and ideology. The other finds itself confided within the walls of actuality and evidential and easily understood products. Jason Stanley, a philosopher and Yale professor, discussed in a Stone article the meaning of both practical and theoretical knowledge and how society has miscalculated the divide between the two concepts.
Tommy Lasorda, former manager of the Dodgers, once said, “ The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” Determination is what separates people from being lazy and handworkers. It not only shows laziness but also great strides for improvement in someone’s life. Determination can be seen in everyday life, whether it is from getting up early to workout, making an A on a paper, or even allotting time to do homework. Homework requires a lot of determination from students; therefore homework should stay present in schools.
To reach my goal in this essay I will explain each method in detail to give you a good visual example of the situation to further relate it to real life occurrences. The following ways are as follows. Unfortunately, we can see that more kids are starting to fail high school and are not able to graduate as the years pass by. The percentage has become horrific in the past couple of years. To be specific, In Arizona itself only seventy percent of the people attending school are actually graduating and only two thirds attending college actually earn a degree (The Arizona Republic)
According to Boekaerts (n.d.) “Motivational beliefs act as a frame of reference that guides students’ thinking, feelings and actions in a subject area.” If a student believes that they are good at writing and enjoy reading poetry, they will usually be optimistic and willing to do quality work around that subject. Conversely, if a student believes that math is difficult, or they have been led to believe they do not excel in working with numbers, the level of motivation to complete an assignment is prone to be unfavorable. Boekaert believes that once a student has formed a particular view towards a subject, it may be difficult to shift their view and grades will reflect their view.
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An example of this statement would be how a student cannot control what school they go to at a young age and who their teach might be. This is easier for a student when the reach adulthood and plan to continue their education to choose these types of things. Ways that a student can control their education at a young age is how hard they work and if they engage in after school activities. By doing activities and trying your best in school, a young person can enrich their study habits which is a skill that can be used later in life.
As Boekaerts and Corno pointed out in 2005, although teachers set goals and expectations for homework, students must independently complete homework by practicing self-regulatory and responsibility. Behaviors such as planning, inhibiting distractions, persisting at difficult assignments, organizing the environment, overcoming unwanted emotions, and reflecting on what they have learned are developed in the process of complete an assigned homework. “Children who complete homework outside of school often develop an aptitude for academic work through extra practice and are responsible for regulating their own behavior, making homework a classic form of self-regulated learning” (197). Other researchers such as Zimmerman, Bonner, and Kovach acknowledge that these skills (responsibility and discipline) promote positive behaviors that, in addition to being important for academic pursuits, generalize to other life domains. “Because homework generally requires students to complete tasks with less supervision and under less severe time constraints than is the case in school, home study is said to promote greater self-direction and self-discipline attributes apply to the nonacademic spheres of life as well as the academic” (1). Furthermore, not only does homework instill positive attitudes that would last a life time, it also brings families closer together and strengthens team work amongst them. In Hoover Dempsey’s article titled The Motivational Benefits of Homework, “teachers can use homework to increase parents' appreciation of and involvement in schooling” (2).
Cooper, Robinson and Patall 2006; Corno and Xu 2004; Johnson and Pontius 1989; Warton 2001. (February 5, 2007) “What research says about the value of homework: At a glance “Center for public. Retrieved from http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Instruction/What-research-says-about-the-value-of-homework-At-a-glance
The exactness of inductive logic is uncertain, therefore, it uses different properties to develop a conclusion, even though the conclusion is probably not completely correct. While on the other hand, deductive reasoning can lead to a completely correct conclusion only if the properties that lead that conclusion are also correct.