writing-activity-for-engl-102-3

– Research and choose a logical fallacy and describe it in your own words. What type of fallacy is it? Where does it often appear? Can you find an example of it in your own work or in someone else’s argument?

– I will include some of my work

– At least 250 words.

– Try and use other fallacies than this list :

* appeal to force

* appeal to pity

* appeal to people (appeal to vanity – appeal to snobbery – bandwang argument)

* appeal against the person

* appeal to authority

* appeal to ignorance

* hasty generalization

* false cause

* missing the point

* begging the question

* equivocation

* composition / division

* false dichotomy

*slippery slop

* straw man

* red herring