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Style

The tips that I found to be most helpful are, do not overwrite, do not overstate, and avoiding the use of qualifiers. I am especially bad at using qualifying words in my writing, and this tip is definitely something that I will keep in mind as I am finishing up my paper this weekend. I think that most of the information in this section was pretty straight-forward and I didn't really find anything that I wasn't at least familiar with and none of them seem counterintuitive.

Letters From Birmingham Jail

He is addressing the Birmingham government, and he is addressing the segregation and racisim that is abundant in the town. The tone he is using in this letter is very stern, and disgusted with the way the town is handling racisim. I think that his letter is very effective in getting his point across, throughout the letter you can tell that his disgust for this town's actions is very apparent and he is definitely not trying to hide them. I think that I can utilize some of his writing style into my paper because he uses so many different logical fallacies throughout the letter, and I am really terrible at incorporating them into my writing.

Logical Fallacies

Bandwagon Appeals: Everyone in the neighborhood decorated their lawns for Halloween, so I should too.
-By decorating the lawn I would be participating in a neighborhood event and also celebrating the holiday at the same time.

Either-or: Either the Chiefs fire their head coach or they will continue to be terrible.
- If they don't fire their head coach, even if they win games, they will never amount to anything in the NFL.

Rationalization: If my internet hadn't stopped working, I would have gotten my homework done on time.
- Because my internet wasn't working I wasn't able to get into my online class and submit my homework by the deadline.

Topic

I haven't really set my topic in stone yet, but the one topic I've found on the internet that I could write a paper about would be feminism. My position on this is that, while I can see why some feel so strongly about women's rights, but I think that there is a time and a place for the extreme feminine rights  arguments. In the past, women didn't have the choice to go out and get a job, now they do, and some still don't. That's a choice they make, they shouldn't have to worry about having their choices scrutinized.

When Your Opinion Matters

A time when I had to make my case and state my opinion was during my freshman year in college. I had a truly awful roommate who essentially let her fiancee move into our dorm room and I went along with it for a while, but after a month or two I lost patience with them and had a conversation with her. I wouldn't say that it was successful, because instead of him moving out of our dorm he just didn't come around as much. I have those "man I should have said something different" moments all the time.

Muddiest Point

After reading the guidelines for the assignment, I don't think that there was a part that I had any trouble understanding. The guidelines were pretty straightforward and I don't have any questions about the assignment at this point.