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Rebecca D. Martin's avatar

Chris, this is great! I'm going to use it in my college freshman composition course in a couple weeks. :)

Chris Hutchinson's avatar

Hooray, that makes me happy! The definition are pretty amateurish, but I tried to make it entertaining as well. Glad you found it useful! :-)

Rebecca D. Martin's avatar

The definitions and graphics are perfect for introducing these ideas to students for the first time. Thank you for the resource!

Chris Hutchinson's avatar

Oh, and if you wanted to be super fun, you could show them the Monty Python argument sketch on youtube. There is a full six minute version but the three minute one captures the essence. Two of the graphics come from that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpQlyUjp3vM