Our group prepared a presentation on
identifying logical fallacies. Jon Madden and I had both chosen
logical fallacies as our topic, so we formed a group of two after
checking everyone's topic. I moved over by Jon since I use my laptop.
Once we got together, we began reviewing the assignment instructions
and clarified what we needed to do. After that, we reviewed our topic
by going to the LEO website and navigating to logical fallacies.
Next, I searched through my Bedford Handbook to see if there were any
topics on arguments and logic, and located a section on this, while
Jon used Google to search for web resources on logical fallacies.
After I finished looking through my book, I went to help search for
web resources for use on logical fallacies. After evaluating several
resources, we decided we would use the original LEO webpage, the
Bedford Handbook, and a page from Purdue on logical fallacies as our
sources. We then began to consider what specific logical fallacies we
wanted to cover. We decided we should try to include two logical
fallacies from each main category on the LEO website. We looked over
each fallacy and considered what ones we found the most interesting
and what ones we thought were either most important or most common.
Eventually we agreed on the following: Appeal to Authority, Straw
Man, Presupposition, Either-Or Fallacy, Slippery Slope, Circular
Reasoning, Appeal to Force, Attacking the Speaker, Hiding
Information/Half Truths and Hasty Generalization. After deciding on
these ten logical fallacies, we began considering how to write up
these fallacies for presentation. We decided we would need to provide
a definition explaining each fallacy and an example applying to each
fallacy for we would be able to show how the fallacy might appear in
text or speech. At this point, we split the list in half for each of
us could work on half of the definitions and examples, then we would
put them together when we were finished. For each choice we analyzed
the definitions provided by each source that covered that fallacy,
and then paraphrased a definition of the fallacy based on that
information. After completing the definition on a fallacy, we then
went on to review the examples used in our sources, and created our
own examples that properly applied to that fallacy. We then went on
to repeat both these steps for each fallacy we had choose to cover.
After we both completed our assigned fallacies, we posted them on our
blogs, and then one of us copied them all into one post and formatted
it to ensure consistency. We then reviewed our post for spelling and
grammar, and then published a final copy. Once the final copy was
published, each of us updated our post to show the final version. It
was our plan to show these definitions and examples to the class, and
then explain how the definitions apply to the examples during our
presentation for the students would better be able to identify
logical fallacies.
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