Transcription of Rhetorical Fallacies - Martha's Vineyard Regional High School
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Undergraduate Writing Center, The University of Texas at AustinUWC website: revised by Christine Acker, July 2006 Rhetorical FallaciesRhetorical Fallacies , or Fallacies of argument, don t allow for the open, two-way exchange of ideas upon whichmeaningful conversations depend. Instead, they distract the reader with various appeals instead of using soundreasoning. They can be divided into three categories:1. Emotional Fallacies unfairly appeal to the audience s Ethical Fallacies unreasonably advance the writer s own authority or Logical Fallacies depend upon faulty in mind that Rhetorical Fallacies often FALLACIESS entimental Appeals use emotion to distract the audience from the : The thousand of baby seals killed in the Exxon Valdez oil spill have shown us that oil is not areliable energy Herrings use misleading or unrelated evidence to support a : That painting
Undergraduate Writing Center, The University of Texas at Austin UWC website: uwc.fac.utexas.edu Last revised by Christine Acker, June 2006 Using Authority Instead of Evidence occurs when someone offers personal authority as proof. Example: Trust me – my best friend wouldn’t do that. Guilt by Association calls someone’s character into question by …
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