You are a Training Specialist hired by Universal Medical Supplies, Inc. This organization has been experiencing low productivity and errors in communication in the workplace. As part of an ongoing professional development series, the Vice President of the Human Resources department has tasked you with creating Critical Thinking training materials.
The materials will be presented in many forms and by various means to help improve productivity and communication in the organization.
As part of the company’s training plan, they want to provide articles for the staff on the company’s intranet as required reading prior to other training activities. You will create one of those articles in the form of a blog post. It should provide an overview and give concrete examples of logical fallacies being used in the news and social media.
Use online resources to create a blog post that illustrates how logical fallacies and audience manipulation appear in the news and social media. Social media may include sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others.
Your blog post should be a minimum of 5 paragraphs that includes the following elements:
An introduction to the topic of logical fallacies.
2 examples of audience manipulation in the news with a clickable link to the articles inserted in the blog post. Explain each fallacy example and how it is being used to manipulate the audience.
2 examples of audience manipulation in social media. Explain each fallacy example and how it is being used to manipulate the audience. The two examples can be from the same or different social media sites. Example: One from Facebook and one from Twitter. Insert a screenshot image of each social media post.
A summarizing paragraph.
References with links to your sources.
Rubric:
News
Mastery: Advanced or
exceeds achievement
Examples provided are useful and
complete. The descriptions show a deep knowledge of the fallacies
and the problems caused by
accepting the specific fallacies in question.
Social Media
Mastery:
Advanced or exceeds achievement
Examples provided are useful and complete. The descriptions show
a deep knowledge of the fallacies and the problems caused by accepting the
specific fallacies in question.
Introduction and
Conclusion
Mastery: Advanced or exceeds
achievement
The introduction and conclusion are clear, precise, and offer
real insight into the idea of and problems with accepting logical fallacies.
Language is advanced and sentence structure is complex and interesting.
.
References and APA
Mastery:
Advanced or exceeds achievement
APA style and citation are correct, based upon the following
components: • Double-Spaced • One-inch Margins • Times New Roman 12 pt. • Page
Numbers • Header Titles • Title & Reference Page In-text Citations – Correct
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