Purpose: (1) To reinforce your knowledge of argumentative fallacies. (2) To develop your ability to recognize arguments and argumentative fallacies. (3) To help others develop their abilities to recognize argumentative fallacies. (4) To provide an opportunity to clarify the characteristics of fallacies. (5) To provide you with experience presenting orally.

Assignment: You will be assigned one or more fallacies for each chapter that has fallacies. You are to either find or make up a reasonable example of an argument that illustrates the fallacy you're assigned to present to the class. (If you're assigned more than one fallacy you should have a separate example for each fallacy.) You'll post your fallacy to the bulletin board for others to identify the fallacy.

There are a lot of different kinds of examples you might bring in. It could be something you've read, seen on TV, seen in a movie, heard on the radio, or heard in a lecture for a class. It could be a conversation you've had with someone else. It could be a plausible conversation you make up.

It will be important that the examples you bring in are full arguments, not just one sentence. In all cases you should present enough background that others can have an idea what the context of the argument was, and tell who said what so the argument is clear to everyone else.

Evaluation: Each fallacy you are assigned and post is worth up to five points. The credit you earn will be based on providing a complete argument and providing an argument that could reasonably be considered an example of the fallacy you were assigned. Part of the purpose of this assignment is to clarify would the fallacies are, so it's not necessary that your examples are always 100% correct. It is important that they be close to being correct.

Fallacies you submit for this assignment may be used as future course material unless you ask that they not be used. Do not write anything that you wouldn't want others to read without letting me know that you'd prefer it not be shared.