Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Why you stink at arguing: studying rhetorical fallacies to improve your persuasion skills

Originally posted 11/21/11.

Do you regularly get pwnd by your teacher or friends because you lack the basic persuasion and/or debate skills necessary for your success? In class today, I went over the following presentation:

Logical Fallacies on Prezi

As I said at the end of the presentation, you have one assignment: Go to  and find 3 videos that exemplify one fallacy from each of each of the categories of rhetorical fallacies
  • Emotional fallacies [pathos]
  • Ethical fallacies [ethos]
  • Logical fallacies [logos]
Embed (not link to) each example into a blog post with 1¶ (each) explaining why it is an example of that fallacy.

Ok, so there's that! Good luck!
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 10:23 PM

    did enoch put you up to this???

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  2. AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 9:44 AM

    HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND WORKING ON YOUR BLOGPOST!!!!??
    Your blog is awesome :P

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  3. UnknownNovember 22, 2011 at 10:12 AM

    Haha.

    @Angela—Nope, I did it on my own, but I should do it for Enoch too.

    @Yalisa—SOOO long. You have no idea.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 16, 2012 at 4:00 PM

    Why can't I see the PowerPoint??

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  5. AnonymousOctober 16, 2012 at 8:12 PM

    Where is David's picture? HAHA

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