RWS: Lesson 7

a process that involves a series of complex thought processes which allows an individual to make reasoned judgements, asses the way we think, and solve problems effectively.

Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge

Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering

Inquisitive, Investigative, Open-minded, and Evaluates information

critical thinking makes you recognize different texts and react to them intelligently.

a critical approach provides you with the skills to create well-written text.

1. Hasty Generalization

2. Argumentum ad Ignoratiam

3. Slippery Slope

4. Circular Reasoning

5. Argumentum ad Populum

6. Fallacy of Composition

7. Argumentum ad Baculum

8. Argumentum ad Hominem

9. False Dilemma

10. Complex Question

11. Appeal to Force

12. Appeal to Pity

13. Appeal to Consequences

14. Bandwagon

15. Anonymous Authority

16. False Analogy

17. Accident

18. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hock

19. Wrong Direction

20. Complex Cause

21. Irrelevant Conclusion

22. Straw Man

23. Affirming the Consequent

24. Denying the Antecedent

25. Inconsistency

this occurs when a sample is not significant enough to support a generalization about a population.

this occurs when something is concluded to be true just because it is not proven to be false and vice versa.

this occurs when a series of increasingly superficial and unacceptable consequences is drawn.

this occurs when the reasoning just goes back to itself.

this occurs when an idea is proved based on popular belief or because it has been stated by an elite of the society.

this occurs when it’s claimed that a whole is true because a part of it is true.

tis occurs when the argument appeals to the human emotions specifically fear, by the use of threat and force.

this occurs when the personality of the person is attacked rather than the validity of the arguments.

this occurs when an arguer presents his/her argument as one of only two options despite the presence of multiple possibilities.

when two or more points are rolled into one and the reader is expected to either accept and reject both at the same time, when one point may be satisfactory while the other is not.

this occurs when a threat, instead of reasoning, is used to argue.

this occurs when the element of pity is used instead of logical reasoning.

this occurs when unpleasant consequences of believing something are pointed out to show that the belief is false.

this occurs when an argument is considered to be valid because it is what the majority thinks.

the authority in question is not mentioned or named.

this occurs when a writer assumes that two concepts that are similar in other ways.

this occurs when a general rule is applied to a situation, even when it should be an exception.

this occurs when the arguer claims that since event A happened before event B, A is the cause of B.

this occurs when the direction between the cause and effect is reversed.

this occurs when the explanation for an event is reduced to one thing when there are other factors which also contributed to the event.

this occur when an argument which is supposed to prove something concludes something else instead.

this occurs when the position of the opposition is twisted so that is easier to refute.

in any argument of the form: if A is true, then B is true; if B is true, therefore A is true.

in any argument of the form: if A is true, then B is true; if A is not true, then B is not true.

it occurs when arguments contradict one another.