Vocabulary Flashcards
Scare tactic
Frightening you into something
Claim of policy
Proposing a change
Ad hominem
Personal insult
Expert opinion
Opinion from someone experienced
Current events
Aware of what is happening locally, nationality, and globally ensures a store of information
Faulty analogy
Poor comparison
Straw man
Makes the argument seem ridiculous
Quantitive evidence
Includes things that can be represented in numbers or verbal explanations. ex; like graphs, charts, or tables.
Claim of value
Good or bad
Bandwagon appeal
Join/everyones doing it
Argument
An exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one
Claim
State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.
Historical information
Common type of evidence in historical information- verifiable facts that a writer knows from research
Current events
Aware of what is happening locally, nationality, and globally ensures a store of information
Anecdotes
Stories about other people that you’ve either observed, been told about, or researched
Personal experience
Makes an abstract issue more human
Appeal to false authority
Not really an expert
Post hoc
One does not cause
Circular reasoning
Repeats claim
Hasty generalization
Scarty evidence
Either:Or
Two options
