Cause and Effect Exercises

In a way, I felt this method of learning was more effective than the book, or at least the material seemed more relevant, and less wordy which made it more simplistic. what was once foggy in the book, was made mroe clear from this website, but I didn't find the exercises as helpful as I thought they would be. I don't think it was the material, but mroeso the layout on the page, and how that was organized in comparrison to the beginning example of the truck driver and the cyclist.

In the example, it is obviously the trucks fault, because under no circumstance can you park in the bike lane. So, the reading helped me understand which claims were helpful and which ones were not. I understood the overall argument better after reading it a couple of times. For me, the material doesn't stick unless I read it more than once, and especially with this stuff that doesn't stick to begin with, I have to be able to take my time to understand it.

I didn't like how the exercises pages were structured because I would answer one question and I would scroll down to see all of the other answers as well.... If you ask me, the exercises might need to revamp the structure on their site, but the material works great.

Appeal to Emotion

Appeal to emotion is basically saying that you should believe something based on your emotions, or how you feel about the subject. By appealing to someone emotions, you are trying to convince them that the premises are true by getting to their emotions.

I personally enjoyed reading about appeal to fear, because its one that I notice more frequent.

I don't know how many Survivor fans there are in this class, but if any of you have watched any episodes of Survivor Heroes vs Villains, there is one villain who uses this appeal constantly to keep the people on his tribe in his alliance. Because this guy is such a strong power player, his tribe mates are afraid to against him because if they go against him, blindside him, or so anything that threatens his safety, then he votes them off and uses appeal to emotion to get what he wants.

Appeal to fear is seen everywhere, especially in advertisement for beauty products or health care products. For example, companies such as proactiv use this appeal in a sense they say "if you don't use our product, then you will have more acne and your skin wil not be beautiful." Its not very "in your face" fear, but in this context, fear is used as what you don't want to see/be.