Tell No 1 Midterm

Midterm Exam (app. 1000 words each)

Your film critique essay must make an argument, which addresses as part of its contents, the Walton text, the research article and the film itself. Be creative and feel free to experiment with your writing and critical faculties. However, at a minimum, your essay should adequately address all content and reading material assigned for the midterm. This midterm asks for some specific items in a general way. In order to prepare for the assignment the practical thing to do is watch the recommended movie. The movie chosen for this assignment is Tell No One. Upon viewing the movie, the next step is to consider applying some concepts of criticism. Then taking into account the flaws that critics in the modern age

These key argument types are discussed through chapter eight and nine of the text. What can be gained from the two aspects include the ability to discern general statements from specific statements using some form of data as part of the argument. It goes on to expand on the fact that suspicion should be part of the process if the statistical argument contains fallacies in the data. Taking this information into consideration in the overall context of this piece we can examine the information we have for fallacies in our arguments.

Arguments have been made in this piece, including those for critic’s ability to give opinions. With those arguments we can see if they have fallacies mentioned in the last chapter. The one argument similarity may be from inductive generalization when making comments about the need for formal training. Since no statistical data is used to describe the criticism, we can rule out the statistical argument or fallacies contained therein. On the other hand, we do find some statistics used in the article from McWhirter. The tools identified in the text helps us to identify if the use of data is handled correctly. With the list of ways to check for flaws in statistical use containing errors of meaningless statistics (Walton,

The errors of argument available in post hoc may find relevance in the article. Consider that the article obtained data from critics, by selecting only two locations Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) (McWhirter, 2015, p. 6). Selecting only two locations raises the first instance of post hoc concerning “the number of positive correlations between the events in question is too small to rule out coincidence” (Walton, 2008, p. 263). The saving grace for this argument is the share number of critics pooled for interview. In the scope of this piece, it is safe to say scrutiny can be given to aspects of the critique as well as the article. However, this writer has respectfully resigned that the aspects discussed do not have glaring examples of