Week 16-Post 3: Chapter 10-Too Much Emotion

The most useful or interesting concept that I found while taking this course this semester was concepts in Chapter 10: Too Much Emotion of the Epstein text. This Chapter is interesting because many people do things and believe things based on their emotions. One's emotions are very strong on their decision making abilities. Epstein states, Appeals to emotion is "an argument is just a premise that says, roughly, you should believe or do something because you feel a certain way" (191). An appeal that stood out to me is the appeal to fear. Many politicians and advertisers use this appeal to emotion to get people to do things because they put that fear in peoples brain and mentality. Appeal to fear gets people to do things that they may not want do or may affect the decisions they take based on their fear. Politicians always use appeal to fear to get votes and get people to support them. Like for instance people are scared of terrorism and a politician goes on and speaks on what he will do to stop terrorism. People will support him because this politician and others will create this fear for people to act based on their fear and emotions. Found this Chapter to be very useful and have many important concepts on appeal to emotion that are use in everyday life.

Week 16-Post 2: Most favorite, least favorite thing about Class

Favorite thing about this class was that it was mainly online most of the time so it made it possible for me to take this class to fit to my already busy schedule. My favorite thing about this class is that most of the work was done through daily blogs and the questions really made you thing on how to apply reasoning and examples to show that one understands the concepts in comm 41. Another favorite thing is that the Richard Epstein text of Critical thinking really explain the concepts very well as well as the group communication book. The least favorite thing about this class is that one has to wait 12 hours every time to post a new blog up to blogpost website. Sometimes that is stressful because you have to wait 12 hours to post every blog up. Another least favorite thing was that I felt that there some issues with group projects even though I worked well with my group. Sometimes its hard getting all five people in the group to find a time to meet in person where everyone can make it to get organize and start planning for the project. Almost everyone has a busy schedule and in sense taking this online class because it's more convenient for there schedules. This class can improve by having no restrictions on the blog post and perhaps an alternative to group projects.

Week 16-Post 1: Learning in Comm 41

There are many new concepts I learned through taking this comm 41 course and applying the concepts to everyday life. All the concepts learn through this semester were useful by applying them through weekly blogs that we had to do because doing these blogs assure that I was understanding and thinking such as concepts like Appeal to Emotion. I never knew that there was many concepts to do with Appeals to Emotion such as appeal to pity, appealing to fear,appeal to spite, and many more concepts having to do with appeal to emotion. The group projects were very useful for this class because it made you go back and look at concepts and apply them to group projects such as looking at a editorial and applying some of these comm 41 concepts to write and critique the editorial. The second project was using a social organization such as PETA to write about what kind of argumentation the website uses to prove their points. All these things were helpful to learn all the concepts in comm 41 but the blogs were most useful to keep you thinking about how your going to apply the concepts and use your own examples to write on your blog.