Counter Argument Outline
1. Introduction
-Hook: Do computers have a negative impact on our life? Do you think that if universities put limit on suffering the computer will higher their grades?
-Title and Author’s name: Surfing’s up and grades are down by Rene Sanchez
-The main idea of the article that the author claim to say that how universities deal with college students with tolerating because of computers in USA and if they have negative impact on their grades or not, as there are some students can get high grades and others can’t.
-Thesis Statement: Despite the fact that the author is subjective in the article but there are pros and cons of suffering on the internet. Some of these arguments need to be questioned and stated clearly because …show more content…
3. The Logical Fallacy
He stated some logical fallacies that weaken it argument such as:
First Logical Fallacy:
-Type: Hasty Generalization
-Example: “And college students have always been dedicated to wasting time.”
-Explanation: The author means that all college students are committed on wasting their time.
Second Logical Fallacy:
-Type: Slippery Slope
-Example: Some students, they say are putting too much emphasis on electronic relationships, are neglecting course work, and, in a few instances, are even being swindled out of money by e-mail strangers they come to trust.
-Explanation: taking one step will lead to another terrible step which will lead to terrible consequence.
4. Weak Evidence
A. Topic sentence: The author used some weak evidences that weakened the article:
B. 1-Some universities now are imposing limits on the time students spend each day, or each week, on campus computer
2- Some students, they say are putting too much emphasis on electronic relationships, are neglecting course work.
C. 1- It is a weak statement because the author stated that universities are likely not giving freedom to their students to suffer on the …show more content…
False Assumption
A. Topic sentence: The last point of weakness that the author stated some no logical statements that made his article weaker.
B. 1- University counselors say they doubt that is the main reason many of these students skip university.
2- Some college counselors are creating conferences on the issue and deciding to put them in freshman orientation programs.
C. 1- The author here stated that universities see that the main reason why students fail because of sitting on computers for a lot of time.
2- The author mentioned that there counselors making workshops and programs in freshman orientation programs to explain how computers affect our lives.
D. 1- According to the article “College students say the Internet helps them” the author explained that students made it obvious that the internet is the only and main source of their information of their lives.
2- According to the article too, the author discussed that most students use their emails and internet to receive their assignments from doctors, form study groups, plan projects, discuss their grades with their doctors, and to get all the materials and stuff they need easily.
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1. Introduction
-Hook: Do computers have a negative impact on our life? Do you think that if universities put limit on suffering the computer will higher their grades?
-Title and Author’s name: Surfing’s up and grades are down by Rene Sanchez
-The main idea of the article that the author claim to say that how universities deal with college students with tolerating because of computers in USA and if they have negative impact on their grades or not, as there are some students can get high grades and others can’t.
-Thesis Statement: Despite the fact that the author is subjective in the article but there are pros and cons of suffering on the internet. Some of these arguments need to be questioned and stated clearly because …show more content…
3. The Logical Fallacy
He stated some logical fallacies that weaken it argument such as:
First Logical Fallacy:
-Type: Hasty Generalization
-Example: “And college students have always been dedicated to wasting time.”
-Explanation: The author means that all college students are committed on wasting their time.
Second Logical Fallacy:
-Type: Slippery Slope
-Example: Some students, they say are putting too much emphasis on electronic relationships, are neglecting course work, and, in a few instances, are even being swindled out of money by e-mail strangers they come to trust.
-Explanation: taking one step will lead to another terrible step which will lead to terrible consequence.
4. Weak Evidence
A. Topic sentence: The author used some weak evidences that weakened the article:
B. 1-Some universities now are imposing limits on the time students spend each day, or each week, on campus computer
2- Some students, they say are putting too much emphasis on electronic relationships, are neglecting course work.
C. 1- It is a weak statement because the author stated that universities are likely not giving freedom to their students to suffer on the …show more content…
False Assumption
A. Topic sentence: The last point of weakness that the author stated some no logical statements that made his article weaker.
B. 1- University counselors say they doubt that is the main reason many of these students skip university.
2- Some college counselors are creating conferences on the issue and deciding to put them in freshman orientation programs.
C. 1- The author here stated that universities see that the main reason why students fail because of sitting on computers for a lot of time.
2- The author mentioned that there counselors making workshops and programs in freshman orientation programs to explain how computers affect our lives.
D. 1- According to the article “College students say the Internet helps them” the author explained that students made it obvious that the internet is the only and main source of their information of their lives.
2- According to the article too, the author discussed that most students use their emails and internet to receive their assignments from doctors, form study groups, plan projects, discuss their grades with their doctors, and to get all the materials and stuff they need easily.
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