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As Class Convenes

Find your team Pick up your team’s folder; Remove all old work Sign attendance form

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Session Agenda Quiz on Reading 5 min Persuasion &

Argument 35 min Peer Assessment

of Notebooks 35 min

PersuasionReview Patterns of

Organization

Develop Arguments to be Persuasive

Turn Information into Evidence

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Patterns are: How you organize

your information in any type of communication.

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Common Patterns Step by Step Chronological Spatial

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Patterns Continued Decreasing order of

importance General to Specific

(deductive) Specific to General

(inductive)

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Persuasive Pattern Strategy of organization

where you present evidence to support your point of view and to support your professional credibility

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Persuasion is used to: Convince audience to

adopt a certain point of view or

To pursue a certain line of action

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Argument

Forms the basis for all persuasive patterns of development

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Arguments are

Strategies used to:– Present your evidence– Support your point– Support your professional

credibility

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Argument is used to: Present evidence or

logic to support a point of view

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Persuade vs InformThe same information organized differently can:

– persuade an audience to adopt your point of view

or

– inform the audience of what has been done

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When you use Persuasion

You take the same information & just organize it differently to persuade audience to adopt your point of view

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Arguments Go in discussion

section Support conclusions

or recommendations

Arguments

Deal with opinions

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Opinions are:

Propositions Premises Hypothesis Claims Conclusions Thesis

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Arguments Lie:

VerifiableFact

PureSubjectivity

Opinion

(scale)

Verifiable Fact

No need to argue

Pure subjectivity

Cannot convince with argument

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Purpose of Argument

To convince audience the probability that your opinions are correct

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Arguments Usually Consist of

– one major opinion or – one major proposition

Supported by– several minor opinions or– several minor propositions

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Support argument with:Simply stated verifiable facts Statements from recognized authorities

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ASU Example Problem: Not enough money to

adequately support athletic program

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Where did they start? Gathering

Information What kind of

information?

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Comments on Design Notebooks

All work needs initials and a date All major pieces of work need

Context and Discussion Design Notebook is not just a

collection of work summaries - the notebook includes all the work

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First Peer Notebook Review Give your Design Notebook to the team

with three higher letters (B to E, C to F, D to G, E to H, F to B, G to C, and H to D)

Using the following checklists– TA5 Design Notebook Audit– Notebook Structure – Product Selection – Needs Analysis Task– Other tasks, if work presentassess the work

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First Peer Notebook Review When you have completed the review,

two members return the notebook and discuss the review with the team

Place your TA5 Checklist in your team folder (not notebook) and return folder to front of room. The checklist can be picked up from MAE office 15 minutes after class.