What I learned over the semester.

Over the course of the semester, I have learned a ton of things, ranging from whether or not an argument is good or not to all the different type of fallacies. As a whole though, I think this class has definitely allowed me to become a much better critical thinker, in the sense that I can much better break down arguments or points out flaws in them. Not only can I now more efficiently point out weak points in arguments, I can also in turn make repairs by adding more or removing something to make it stronger. One thing I learned in particular that I found really useful was the different types of appeal to emotion. When reading about it, it was amazing to see how it was so commonly used in everyday life by pretty much everyone. In some way, shape, or form, you have probably appealed to someone's emotion before, so its great to be able to identify this when it arises!