1. Describe a time when you changed your mind about something or a time when you changed another person's mind. What role did language play in causing the change? What role did experience play? 2. What is your opinion on the value of smart technology? Which of the arguments was more closely aligned with your own perspective?

3. What experiences, knowledge, and attitudes have worked together to form your own perspective on the value of smart technology?

4. Which of the arguments that you read was more clearly directed at a specific audience? What details made you think so?

5. Select one of these topics, and imagine a conversation in which someone tries to make a point using a form of fallacious reasoning. Write the conversation as you imagine it, focusing on the error in logic.

6. How convinced were you of the author's claims in "Invasion of the Screens: A Horror Story?" What made the essay convincing or unconvincing? What would have made it more persuasive for you as a reader?-