Choose a current issue in the news right now or a current issue in your major, and compose a brief argumentative essay

One way to learn and retain the informal logical fallacies is to take a long and difficult exam, but let’s do someting different. I am a firm believer that we learn by doing, so for this discussion forum, I want you to make fallacies. Yes, you read it right; I want to read your best (or worst?) fallacious reasoning.

Instructions:

Part I: Essay Post (100 points)

Choose a current issue in the news right now or a current issue in your major, and compose a brief argumentative essay (no more than 600 words) in which you make as many informal fallacies as you can. Do not use gay marriage or abortion, and please do not use the issue you covered for your Tompkins’ style essay. A minimum of 5 fallacies are required, though the more you make, the better you may do on this assignment. Do not identify the fallacies, as your peers will be doing that in Part II.