Midterm Review

Review for Midterm:

This page last updated:
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:40 PM

ARQ chapters 1-8, and study guides
Past homework assignments
class notes on the reading process:
How to Read an Essay
Butler's 3 Levels of Reading Here
Bias: What is It
CRE 101 Rubric for criteria for a good argument analysis essay

Below are links to my model "answers" to various assignments and links to other aids to study for the midterm.

Red assignments are not yet available.

Fraternity Alcohol
Assumptions (slide show)
Rainforest products practice analysis
analysis of ARQ 6-3 (fire safety) to review for assumptions
6-page assumptions practice yellow handout and Assumptions Practice Handout answers.
Abortion Assumptions

For this particular web page, place your cursor at the beginning of the empty answer and click and "highlight." The answers will appear.

Examples of Argument Analyses and Critical Essays:

Border Control argument analysis
National Health Insurance and Government Bids Analyses
MACS vs PCs Analysis
ARQ 7 passage 5 analysis of "higher tuition" (.pdf file--you will have to adjust the zoom on the pdf reader to see the pages properly)
High-Tech Parents analysis essay

Bill and Taylor fallacies dialog analysis
SuperiorEducation
ARQ Fallacies Chart
Three sites for additional fallacies practice, though not necessary if you are "getting it" with ARQ:
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html

Loop 202 article markup and essay example.
Food Animal Cruelty Assumptions and analysis

~~My 3-reason "Spanish Forbidden" argument~~
~~Medical Malpractice Statistical Problems~~
~~ARQ 9 and 10 practice paragraphs~~
"Spanish Forbidden" fallacies