EN102 - English Composition II
VIP - Week 5
Week 5 Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this Lesson, students will be able to:
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Reflect and respond to published works using scholarly analysis

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Utilize library resources when researching

Reading Assignment Key Points:
Academic writing is all about dissent. As writers in academia, we welcome a dialogue with those whose ideas challenge our own. This is an essential part of the academic process for several reasons:
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Because through dissent we add to the general pool of knowledge,
Because through these challenges to our ideas, we strengthen our arguments,
Because it compels us to seek a much broader, more encompassing world view.

Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
When we think, we start with, what Aristotle called the “Three Fundamental Laws of
Thought.” While this is a complex concept, we can simplify it as:
1. The Law of Identity: Whatever is, is what it is. For instance, a cow is a cow. It may be a Jersey cow, it may be an old cow, it may even be a purple cow, but it is most definitely a cow.
2. The Law of Contradiction: Nothing can both be, and not be. A cow cannot both be a cow and not a cow at the same time.
3. The Law of the Excluded Middle: Everything must either be or not be. For instance, a cow is not, under any circumstances, and un-cow. A horse is also not a cow. According to these laws, there is no middle ground.
Naming a thing makes it conceptual; it is, quite simply, a concept, which is essential to the practices of comparative reasoning.
1. The concept is the result of comparing attributes.
2. The judgment is the result of comparing concepts.
3. The inference is the result of comparing judgments
Comparative reasoning may be divided into two categories: deductive and inductive.
Deductive reasoning (a.k.a. deductive logic) is focused on the generation