What I've Learned

There are so many new and different concepts that I learned throughout this semester.

It was really interesting learning how there are so many different parts that go into an argument to make it a strong and valid one.  Learning the difference between what is a strong argument and what is a valid argument really helped me understand which is better to have.  

Also, I learned about the difference between an objective claim and a subjective claim.  It made me realize that I base most of my arguments off a subjective claim.

I also learned about an appeal to emotion and that a lot of companies and advertisements that are used use the appeal to emotion to capture their viewers attention.

There were also the different types of reasoning that we learned about.  There is reasoning by analogy, sign reasoning, casual reasoning, reasoning by criteria, reasoning by example, inductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning.