Fallacies
This term refers to the tactic of invalidating an opponent’s position based on a personal trait or fact about the opponent rather than through logic.
What is ad hominem (personal attack) fallacy?
This term refers to audience, genre, and purpose
Set the entire document for this type of spacing.
What is double-spaced?
If you are truly engaging in a conversation about a complex topic, your own stance will be what?
What is challenged?
This fallacy occurs when the arguer claims a specific series of events will follow one starting point, typically with no supporting evidence for this chain of events.
What is slippery slope?
This term refers to appealing to the audience's emotions.
What is pathos?
What is usually included in an in-text citation?
What are: author's last name and page number (if available).
This identifies the information presented as coming from an outside source and not you.
What is an author's tag?
When you cite sources, you're not only giving credit where it's due, but you're helping others understand who ________.
What is influenced your thinking?
This fallacy claims there are only two options in a given situation.
What is false dilemma (either/or)?
This term refers to the act of examining the interactions between a text, an author, and an audience.
What is rhetorical analysis?
In an argumentative essay, after presenting the opposing view, be sure to do this.
What is refute/rebuttal it?
Which citation style is most often used in science?
What is Chicago?
This fallacy argues against a hyperbolic, inaccurate version of the opposition rather than their actual argument.
What is straw man?
This term refers to the tactic of appealing to the audience's sense of logic and reasoning.
What is logos?
This term refers to words and phrases such as however, in contrast, likewise, and on the opposing side, which show how one idea relates to the next in an essay.
What are transitional words and phrases? (Or: What are transitions?)
When you write a paragraph or essay that connects the sources, blends them, and is a coherent whole, you are ____
What is synthesizing?
This is an argument that states that everyone else is doing something so others should as well.
What is bandwagon?
This term refers to the art of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
When omitting a part of a quote within an essay sentence, use one of these to indicate that there was something cut out.
What is an ellipsis within brackets?
This term refers to the decisions a writer makes when writing a text.
What is rhetorical choices?