In Class: Free Write

I didn't really understand the concept of Degree in an argument. I can't really explain to you why because I just don't even understand it and why it was put in the book in the first place. The book also didn't really explain what a Degree was except it gave examples of what looked like comparisons. At first I also didn't understand the section on Statistics, but after reading the whole chapter, and all of the other chepters, that arguments are about anything, including numbers.

Everything else in the chapter I understood without any problem whatsoever. I understood how facts, hard evidence, surveys and polls, using reason and common sense, and everything else worked in a logical appeal. My favorite section was the one over hard evidence. Who can go wrong with that?

I never really payed attention though to how sensitive wording polls could be until I read the two exmples that they gave us on how results can be drastically different if you change up the wording. I'm still wondering though, why is that? I mean it's the same words just stated a LITTLE bit differently.

Another thing that I was a little confused in was the section about Precedent. I'm sure though that after class I will be able to understand all of this though : ).