Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Visual Arguments
This week we were to read about inventing arguments. Arguments have a lot more to them than you would think. By definition, an argument is the act of asserting, supporting and defending a claim. There are different kinds and styles and each of them can be looked at further in depth. All arguments have two parts though, a claim and support. The claim is like a thesis statement of your intended thought and the support is the evidence that proves it is true. An example would be that I think ASU has great weather year-round if you like warm weather. That would be my claim. My support would be the actual weather reports of Tempe, Arizona for each day of the year, proving it is a good location for people that like warm weather. I could also add more supporting claims like evidence of surveys that show people also think ASU has great warm weather year-round.
I have thought a lot about my WP1 potential topics and still have not come up with one I want to follow through with. The examples in class helped a lot by showing different ideas and I'm excited to come up with one on my own soon. I found this Apple visual argument that I thougth was interesting though.
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Kristen, I really liked your post on visual arguments. I couldn’t agree more with the things you mentioned in your blog. I liked how you started off with using the definition “an argument is the act of asserting, supporting and defending a claim”. It made your post seem more credible and sophisticated. I liked how you described what a claim is and how they are incorporated into every argument. I also really liked how you gave an example of what a claim is and how to support a claim in your idea that “I think ASU has great weather year-round if you like warm weather”. You do a great job at explaining how to support this idea would be by sing specific facts and evidence from various weather reports form the area.
ReplyDeleteAs for the photo you posted, I thought it was a really good example of a visual argument. I liked the contrast between these two types of computers. It creates the argument that Macs are simpler than PCs. On the other hand, you can infer that PCs allow an owner to be able to be more creative and personalize their computer while Macs don’t offer as much variation in personalizing their products.