Throughout this section a lot of informative topics were covered. The first one being, citations, the author explained which citations should be used when and how to do it. The author gave many different of examples of MLA simplified citations. Secondly, the author went to into great detail about chains of reasoning, evaluation, and fallacies. The six common chains of reasoning are; definition, generalization, analogy, casual, authority, and principle. Definition is merely how the author defines a word with multiple meanings. This allows the author to let the reader know how they are going to use the word. Generalization is assumptions for what is mainly true for a large group or population. Analogy involves comparing two different situations that are alike, they link together in some way. Casual deals with a disagreement over a result that may have been altered from an outside factor. Authority is related to credibility; using the acronym STAR allows us to identify if the author or whom the author uses is a credible source. Principle is displaying that a certain situation still stands with this principle being applied. Next, the author tackles evaluation. The author’s main purpose is to let the reader know how to evaluate an argument. To evaluate an argument the reader needs to present their own argument by asking themselves is the text strong or weak, effective or ineffective, persuasive or not, and giving good evidence and support to back up their claim. The author also goes in depth about pathos and ethos and how those are a very good source to use in evaluation. Lastly, the author mentions and describes fallacies. Fallacies are a list of things to avoid when you are reflecting on an argument. Complementary to the chains of reasoning some fallacies would be a hasty generalization, false analogy, confusing correlation and causation, false authority, misapplied principle. All of these are easy to do as writers because sometimes we don’t even realize we are doing it. When writing a persuasive piece writer’s need to be aware of how they are wording statements, so it is not contradicting or confusing to the reader. And they need to be sure about their credibility and the other sources they are trying to use to show more credibility. Writers just need to be aware of how they are writing things and how they are showing it to the reader. These pages provided a lot of great information because it gave a lot of examples of what writing should and should not look like.
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Aztec Swimmer 22 
I love how you related what was in the course reader to what we learned in class.
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Sammie, I really like how your summary flows so smoothly and jumps from one topic to the next. Your structure was good and went into depth on each point that really made this summary meaning and showed how much you understand this section of the course reader. I like how you touched on the acronym STAR in your summary because I that didn’t catch my eye when I was reading the course reader, but after reading your summary it now has. I see a similarity between your summary and mine based on the depth we put in to describe the six common chains of reasoning. Personally, I think this is the most important part of this section, even though the whole section is important. Overall, your summary taught me many new things myself and was done well enough, if I didn’t read the course reader I could read your summary and know exactly what it was about.
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I really liked how you gave an example/ definition for each of the 6 chains of reasoning. It was really helpful in making these easier to understand what they are and how to implement them into our own works of writing!!!
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I really liked how you gave examples/ definitions for each of the 6 chains of reasoning! It really helped to enhance not only your credibility by citing the course reader pages, but it gave your readers a clearer understanding of what each one was and how to correctly use them in their own writing.
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Hey Sam,
Awesome post! I loved how clear your language was when summarizing these pages. Your post was easy to read and flowed well. I agree with what you wrote about these pages being informative, and I thought so as well.
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