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Logic for Learning
Logical Grammer
Assumptions
What college level reading techniques does this attach to? how? (Don't say reading carefully or reading more than once!!)
Which sort of clauses did we focus on? Which did we skim over?
In Class Activity
By yourself, or with a partner, find 3 examples of sentences with clauses in our current reading (7-44) from _Bunk_. At least 2 should be ones that you could see people missing the meaning of and you should be able to explain the logic of why.
Causality
Moby Dick is a whale. So Moby Dick is a mammal.
Giving students a fail grade will damage their self-confidence. Therefore, we should not fail students.
It should not be illegal for adults to smoke pot. After all, it does not harm anyone.
Traces of ammonia have been found in Mars' atmosphere. So there must be life on Mars.
All of Russia's problems of human rights and democracy come back to three things: the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. None works as well as it should. Parliament passes laws in a hurry, and has neither the ability nor the will to call high officials to account. State officials abuse human rights (either on their own, or on orders from on high) and work with remarkable slowness and disorganisation. The courts almost completely fail in their role as the ultimate safeguard of freedom and order. The Economist 25.11.2000
1060 Spring 2019
Damon Young "On Justin Fairfax and Believing Women" https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/on-justin-fairfax-and-believing-women-when-it-s-politic-1832532685
1060: Making Assumptions Explicit
Benay: The book begins with wonderful examples for summarizing either a particular writer’s position or a generally accepted viewpoint. The assumption here is that students must first understand an existing debate before they contribute their own ideas to that debate. Most of us agree with that premise, but what is so unique about this book is that Graff and Birkenstein take that agreed-upon understanding and literally show students how to accomplish it.
Hollrah and Farmer:
Grow: First, the book reframes students’ expectations for a freshman com-position class, and second, it guides students step by step through closing the gap between their limited experience with academic discourse and the proficiency expected of them in college-level courses.
The expectation gap is one of the biggest obstacles to success in an introductory writing course. A recent comment posted on my RateMyPro-fessor.com forum illustrates a misperception many of my students have on the first day of class: “I learned how to support my position when I thought I would be learning about grammar.”