Hello,
I like the way the book explained the two types of
claims: premises and conclusions. If you give your audience three premises that
make sense to them, then the audience will agree with the conclusion. This strategy can be helpful in not only
speaking, but in a writing assignment. It
can also be used when you are trying to present an idea for a project, etc in
the workplace. I am taking an
Argumentation class here at Sierra
College this semester,
and the claim has been explained as the main idea of the argument. In other words, the claim is what you want
your audience to believe. I have never heard
of the term “enthymeme.” Obviously from looking
at the Coca Cola ad in the book, I recognized the enthymeme and do admit it
fits in nicely with the girls in the ad.
Enthymeme’s appear in advertising all of the time, and now I will be
able to recognize them.
Max
I really like what we learn in this class, every week we learn something new which can be used in other classes. It is very interesting how all our speeches defer from each other, each of them is unique. For our persuasive speech we learn how to use claims effectively ;moreover, how you said we have two types of claims "premise and conclusion", and I agree that if you give your audience three premises that make sense to them, then the audience will agree with the conclusion. However, be careful because if one of the primes will fail, the audience can disagree with the conclusion.
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