TA Practice with Enthymemes (?sp)

• WATCO of raising the cutoff GPA at BYU?

Raising the cutoff GPA for admittance to BYU will increase students' tendency to whine about their grades.

B/C Raising the cutoff GPA increases the number of A students at BYU, of which a certain percentage are only A students by way of whining about their B+ scores to teachers.

• WATCO of appealing to the authority of "scientists" to prove a fact to a science major?

Using the authority of a scientist to prove a fact to a science major will likely be met with skepticism.

B/C Science as a discipline relies on arguments based on evidence and reasoning rather than authority. Thus a science major will be skeptical of someone who relies on their position of authority instead of evidence and argumentation in explaining facts.

• WATCO of never quitting on your mental health?

Never quitting and never winning is just stupid.

B/C Consistently failing and yet still trying to win is like intentionally setting yourself up for disappointment.

• WATCO of accepting food that you never intend on eating?

Accepting gifts that you don't intend to use establishes a junky relationship between giver and recipient.

B/C Accepting a useless gift just increases the junk you manage in your life, while establishing a precedent for yet another useless gift which can only hurt the giver.