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Argument Description: Corn Pone Opinions By Mark Twain

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Appendix I chose to write my appendix over our first assigned essay. The “Argument Description” was about an essay called “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain. The Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, also known as ARCS, is the English book that teaches classic rhetorical elements and how to better understand the concept of Academic writing. There were two specific chapters from the ARCS book that helped me provide the evidence to create an argument and its justifications for this essay and they were chapter 5 and 7. Chapter 5 of ARCS was Logical Proof: Reasoning in Rhetoric Probabilities, while chapter 7 was Pathetic Proof: Passionate Appeals. Chapter 5: Logical proofs teaches you about the different types of reasoning and examples

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