Learned in this class

1). What have you learned in this class over the course of the semester?  Please be specific. 

I have learned many concepts in this class over the course of this fall semester.  I have learned many concepts that tie in with the role of claims and arguments.  There are many ways to analyze a claim or an argument whether it can be accepted as true or false, to whether it is strong, valid, or weak.  We can determine a claim to be true or false with our own experience, but we cannot assume claims to be false with lack of evidence or be bias based on who may have said it; however, we may be able to believe people or authority figures that we trust.  Using such claims, we create a collection of claims, or premises, to make an argument to persuade others.  To help persuade others, we can use appeals to emotion.  Commercials and ads tend to use different appeals to persuade or convince their audience to follow their message from signing to for the gym, to not drink and drive, to buying a new shampoo and conditioner.  In addition, we can use reasonings to help persuade our audiences as well.  We can use inductive and deductive reasoning that uses reasoning from specific to general and general to specific observations.  Overall, we should analyze people's arguments to see how weak or strong it is and whether we should be persuaded or convinced.