5 FEBRUARY: Logical Fallacies

What are some common logical fallacies?  (to be avoided in our writing!)

Today, you will be reading about some famous logical fallacies.  Using the short story “Love is a Fallacy”, you will identify what the major fallacies are that are introduced in that piece and demonstrate understanding of those fallacies by applying them to your own life.

Link to Logical Fallacies Chart (Hard Copy to be distributed in class.)

Link to Max Shulman's short story, "Love is a Fallacy"

EXPLICIT FALLACIES: dicto simpliciter, hasty generalization, post hoc, contradictory premises, ad misericordiam, false analogy, argumentum ad speculum, poisoning the well

IMPLICIT FALLACIES: red herring, false premise

A humorous and graphical representation of fallacies

ALSO, we will be using a class Media Lab for which you will receive an email.  Have a look if you have extra time:

http://propaganda.mediaeducationlab.com/browse/cloonan

DUE DATE CHANGE: INFOGRAPHIC DUE BY EMAIL ON SUNDAY, 7 FEB AT 11:59pm
* Note: for piktochart, you need to "PUBLISH>PUBLIC>OPEN ON WEB" then copy the email address and send that to me.  

HARD COPY of LOGICAL FALLACIES CHART DUE BY END OF CLASS TODAY