I wrote a paper supporting a candidate for presidency. In the paper I wrote why people should vote for the candidate I am supporting and not her opponent. What I did in my paper was compare and contrast the two candidates. I also wrote a lot on why voting for her opponent is not a good choice. My argument is full of logical fallacies therefore it is not a good argument. One logical fallacy I used in my paper was “He talks about reducing taxes but how can we listen when we know he cheated on his wife with three different women”. This is a logical fallacy because I am distracting the readers from the main point. This would be considered a red herring. Another example of red herring in my paper is “Yes Karen Xue is a divorced woman, but really …show more content…
Which is when you reference a respected source such as an athlete or celebrity and explain their ideas on the topic. In my paper I wrote “Some of the most famous celebrities like Leonardo Dicaprio are publicly supporting Karen Xue, so why wouldn’t you”. I am making the reader feel like since Leonardo Dicaprio is supporting Karen they should too, even though he might not know anything about politics. Another fallacy I want to share is “Take this into consideration ever since Chris Hoffa got involved with politics the violence rate in the United States has gone up”. This is a post hoc because I assume that because he got involved into politics violence rate went even though the two might have nothing to do. Furthermore, while writing this paper I struggled getting started. I didn’t know exactly how to write a paper using logical fallacies. I know I have used logical fallacies in my arguments before but not all the ones we learned in class. I admit I am guilty of using hasty generalizations in my everyday arguments but that’s about it. What I did was go through each logical fallacy and try to come up with example of it that would fit my paper. Unfornutely I couldn’t come with an example for every fallacy but I did for a good number of