Paragraph Development Standard Form and Fallacious Arguments Questions

1. Identify the topic sentence or sentences

History has shown, time and time again, that when we come together, we are capable of big things. Our world today, despite its inequality and pain, is far better in so many ways than before. Collective action halved global illiteracy between 1970 and 2005. Worldwide life expectancy has risen from just forty-eight years in 1950 to over seventy-one today. In the last twenty-five years, child mortality around the world has halved. This is proof that we can succeed in tackling enormous developmental and existential challenges when we put people at the centre of everything that we seek to do.

2. Identify the method of paragraph development (e.g., description, process, examples, comparison/contrast, illustration, definition, classification)

History has shown, time and time again, that when we come together, we are capable of big things. Our world today, despite its inequality and pain, is far better in so many ways than before. Collective action halved global illiteracy between 1970 and 2005. Worldwide life expectancy has risen from just forty-eight years in 1950 to over seventy-one today. In the last twenty-five years, child mortality around the world has halved. This is proof that we can succeed in tackling enormous developmental and existential challenges when we put people at the centre of everything that we seek to do.

3. Following the method of analyzing paragraph organization proposed by Francis Christensen, identify each sentence by its level of generalization (SEE ATTACHED WORD DOC)

History has shown, time and time again, that when we come together, we are capable of big things. Our world today, despite its inequality and pain, is far better in so many ways than before. Collective action halved global illiteracy between 1970 and 2005. Worldwide life expectancy has risen from just forty-eight years in 1950 to over seventy-one today. In the last twenty-five years, child mortality around the world has halved. This is proof that we can succeed in tackling enormous developmental and existential challenges when we put people at the centre of everything that we seek to do.

_____ History has shown, time and time again, that when we come together, we are capable of big things.

_____ Our world today, despite its inequality and pain, is far better in so many ways than before.

_____ Collective action halved global illiteracy between 1970 and 2005.

_____ Worldwide life expectancy has risen from just forty-eight years in 1950 to over seventy-one today.

_____ In the last twenty-five years, child mortality around the world has halved.

_____ This is proof that we can succeed in tackling enormous developmental and existential challenges when we put people at the centre of everything that we seek to do.

4. Express the argument of this paragraph in Standard Form (premises and conclusion). Lay the premises and conclusion out in this format:

Premise 1:

Premise 2:

Premise 3:

? Conclusion:

History has shown, time and time again, that when we come together, we are capable of big things. Our world today, despite its inequality and pain, is far better in so many ways than before. Collective action halved global illiteracy between 1970 and 2005. Worldwide life expectancy has risen from just forty-eight years in 1950 to over seventy-one today. In the last twenty-five years, child mortality around the world has halved. This is proof that we can succeed in tackling enormous developmental and existential challenges when we put people at the centre of everything that we seek to do.

5. Put the following words in order in terms of level of specificity.

vertebrates
Alaskan huskies
biped
Chris Rock
woman
dogs
animals
quadruped
Beyonce Knowles
man
cat
Siamese cats
Basset Hound

6. Match the logical fallacy to the commonly accepted label for this error in thinking. (see attached image)

appeal to authority

appeal to fear

appeal to pity

begging the question

double standard

false analogy

falls cause

false dilemma

hasty generation

personal attack

slippery slope

poisoning the well

red herring