Thursday, October 4, 2007

Weekly post 5:

Sorry I haven't gotten this up, I keep getting detained.

Your assignment is to create an example for 4 of the logical fallacies, without identifying them. In responses, guess which ones they've created.

Here's the rhetorical situation: Student A needs to convince Mom A that his grades will improve.

1 comment:

Aggy said...

Situation 1 - "Well Mom, I'm failing, and you know Beth was failing too until about half way trhough the year, so my grades will go up eventually."
Situation 2 - "Of course my grades will get better in history. Did you see my algebra grade?"
Situation 3 - "Evreyone is failing that class. It'll get better."
Situation 4 - "I'm only failing because Mr. Flegal is a terrible teacher. Do you know what he did yesterday?!"