Debate Extra Credit

As promised, I will be offering some extra credit surrounding the presidential debates.

Watch the 3rd presidential debate or read the transcript.  Then, based on the readings from Everything’s an Argument, evaluate the type and quality of one specific argument from each candidate.  Also, evaluate each candidate’s performance in the debate based on our argument and rhetorical studies up to this point.

Write up your evaluation and post it on the blog by Monday, October 20th.  That seems like a long time, but we’ll be reading the Everything’s an Argument chapters this week and the debate isn’t until Tuesday.  The amount of extra credit will be based on the quality of your work.

Remember to cite any ideas, lines of argument, or collection of evidence that you cull from the media evaluations of the debates.  Use the MLA at OWL and Easybib links to the right in order to format your citations (you all did research note cards last year so this shouldn’t be new).

Extra Credit?!

Write up an argument analysis with an eye to establishing its foolproof construction or its downfall.  I will give extra credit for a well-done analysis (whoo hoo!).  If you don’t want the extra credit, just watch the video for your own interest in his argument. If you do want to try for extra credit, blog your analysis by the end of the week.

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This video was made by another amazing University of Puget Sound alumnus.

Don’t forget to scroll down for your actual assignment!

Extra Credit? Can you find a hole in this argument?

Write up an argument analysis with an eye to establishing its foolproof construction or its downfall.  I will give extra credit for a well-done analysis (it is Christmas after all).  If you don’t want the extra credit, just watch the video for your own interest in his argument.

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