writing Process
Research witting
Logical Fallacies
More Logical Fallacies
Advanced fallacies & research.
100

This is when you get your prompt and brainstorm your ideas for your paper

What is

Pre-writing?

100

This is the first part of an essay which states the claim being made with its reasons for supporting it.

What is

A Thesis?

100

This is an attempt to influence the opinion of a reader or listener by provoking them emotionally.

What is

An appeal to emotion?

Sentimental appeal?

Scare tactics?

100

This is when someone connects two unrelated events and claims that one caused the other.

What is 

Causation Fallacy?

100

This is when someone claims one thing will lead to a series of events that ends in a disaster.

What is

Slippery Slope?

200

This is when you share your work with the public.

What is

Publishing?

200

This is when you show your reader where you got got your information.(showing your sources)

What is 

Citation?

200

With this fallacy, the arguer claims that a certain action is the right thing to do because it’s popular.

What is Band Wagon Fallacy?

200

This is when the arguer uses an authority figure’s expertise to support a claim but this expert is irrelevant or overstated. 

What is 

Appeal to False Authority?

200

This is when someone brings up an point or asks a question that is irrelevant to the original topic at hand.

What is

Red Herring?

300

This is when you look back at what you wrote to check for mistakes and areas to improve.

What is 

Revising?

300

This is when the author was there and either discovered or witnessed an event

What is 

Primary Source?

First hand account?

300

This is when you attack someone personally rather than using logic to refute their argument.

What is

Ad Hominem?

300

This is when the arguer uses the argument itself to justify the argument, and never actually uses any evidence.
(I.E. using a claim to support a claim)

What is 

Circular Reasoning?

300

These are examples of what kind of source

News Reports, Essays,

Biographies, Textbooks,

Movies & documentaries

Secondary sources?

Second hand account?

400

This is when you start making changes to your work.

what is

Editing?

400

This is when the author of the source was not there at the event but shares information that they gained from sources that were there.

What is

Secondary source?

Second hand account?

400

This is when someone groups a few instances together and claims that is always the case.

What is

A Hasty Generalization?

400

When someone claims there are only two options in a situation, and are often, extreme opposites of each other, failing to acknowledge that other, more reasonable, options exist.

What is 

False Dilemma?

"Either/Or" fallacy?

400

The following are Examples of?

Autobiographies, Diary entries, letters

Legal documents, Interviews, photos

Videos, and other recordings.

Primary source?

First hand account?

500

These are your first attempts at writing or creating.

what is

Drafting?

500

The repeated use of logical fallacies by authors, authority figures, & the media (TV, SM, etc) to trick a wide audience.

What is

Propaganda?

500

This is when your opponent over-simplifies or misrepresents an argument to make it easier to attack.

What is

Straw Man fallacy?

500

This is a claim that something must be true because it hasn’t been proven false. It can also be a claim that something must be false because it hasn’t been proven true.

What is

Appeal to Ignorance?

"Burden of proof"?

500

Websites that show

The Authors name, date of publication

& its Sources of information 

may be considered...

Reliable.