Finding Logical Fallacies Assignment

For this assignment, we’ll step away from George Orwell’s work (for the moment) to consider modern examples of logical fallacies.

Review the poster at YourLogicalFallacyIs.com. (It can be viewed in poster format or by clicking on individual icons). Each icon explains a type of logical fallacy, many of which you’ve also read about. Choose three of these fallacies/icons to work with. Next, consider forms of media that you’ve recently read, viewed, or consumed. Within these media, have you noticed any examples of these logical fallacies? Find one example for each fallacy that you’ve chosen.

Some places you might consider:

• Television advertisements
• Online persuasive articles (check the opinion-editorial pages of newspapers or partisan websites).
• Character behaviors or choices in works you enjoy, i.e., Character A chose to do blank because she assumed X, which shows a flaw in logic.

For each work that you find, write a one-paragraph reflection answering the following questions:

1. What is the work you’re looking at?
2. What is its purpose (to entertain, persuade, inform, educate, illustrate, etc.)?
3. Which logical fallacy do you recognize here?
4. Explain why the logic is faulty.
5. Do you believe that the creator of this work knows that the logic is flawed? If so, why did they do it anyway? If not, how would you explain to them that they should reconsider their thought?

Turn in one paper that contains all three reflections.

If possible, provide a link to the material you’ve analyzed.