Take a closer look at one specific argument that you find problematic or poorly made. Choose a short (short!) argument–the easiest way to do this is to choose an editorial from a newspaper. Make sure it’s from the editorial page, and not an article! Do a close analysis of the argument that both identifies the fallacies that the author has used and makes an argument for the dominant problem with the argument: what is the heart of the problem with it?
That last is VERY important: your essay needs to have a sense of unity, it should not read like merely a list of all the fallacies you have found. Often the thing that unifies the different fallacies is the emotions that the fallacies seek to invoke and manipulate: what is the author of this argument trying to make you feel and why?Take a closer look at one specific argument that you find problematic or poorly made. Choose a short (short!) argument–the easiest way to do this is to choose an editorial from a newspaper. Make sure it’s from the editorial page, and not an article! Do a close analysis of the argument that both identifies the fallacies that the author has used and makes an argument for the dominant problem with the argument: what is the heart of the problem with it?
That last is VERY important: your essay needs to have a sense of unity, it should not read like merely a list of all the fallacies you have found. Often the thing that unifies the different fallacies is the emotions that the fallacies seek to invoke and manipulate: what is the author of this argument trying to make you feel and why?Take a closer look at one specific argument that you find problematic or poorly made. Choose a short (short!) argument–the easiest way to do this is to choose an editorial from a newspaper. Make sure it’s from the editorial page, and not an article! Do a close analysis of the argument that both identifies the fallacies that the author has used and makes an argument for the dominant problem with the argument: what is the heart of the problem with it?
That last is VERY important: your essay needs to have a sense of unity, it should not read like merely a list of all the fallacies you have found. Often the thing that unifies the different fallacies is the emotions that the fallacies seek to invoke and manipulate: what is the author of this argument trying to make you feel and why?
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