at Least Two Fallacies Must Be Addressed in Your Presentation/Rubric

Logical Fallacies

Fallacies are defects in logic that, while they may seem right or effective, damage the ethos and logos of a paper. To fight off this limiting logic, we are going to practice 'becoming' the fallacies. This assignment, like our tips and tricks presentation, asks you to be creative, outgoing, and artistic, presenting an interpretation of the material in your own unique way.
You and your peer will need to each choose a fallacy (that means one for each group member) and act it out. If you choose to do this assignment individually, you will write a short essay on the fallacies of your choice. You will discuss, interpret, analyze, and conclude about them.

Rubric:

Fallacies

-  at least two fallacies must be addressed in your presentation/rubric

-  the fallacies must be accurately portrayed, regardless of how comical or dramatic you present them

-  Fallacies should be represented with cohesive action/discussions/topics/ideas; there should be flow to your paper/presentation

Conventions

-  If writing an essay, MLA conventions and proper formatting, citation, and diction is necessary; a works cited is necessary for all sources used in the paper

-  If doing a play/skit/act it should be refined and display preparedness

Standards

-  essays should be 3-4 pages double spaced and should exemplify a unique discussion, interpretation, and depiction of the fallacies; essays should not copy from other sources

-  Presentations should be no less than five minutes and no longer than eight

Presentations

-  You and your peer will have a dialectic conversation/action/discussion and hilariously, seriously, dramatically, etc... depict the fallacies. You will need to have accurate and honest depictions. Your presentation should show how these fallacies 1) seem logical 2) break logic/don't actually make sense 3) and how they can be changed/edited/re-framed to make logical sense.

Essays

-  Essays should explore the basis of logic, where/when/how fallacies occur, what makes them wrong, how they can be righted, and what fallacies mean about a text/author (ethos, logos).

-  Essays should be written in the spirit of a standardized test (SAT/ACT), meaning no first, second person, informal diction, and inappropriate grammar. Essays should use sources from SCF, .edu websites like our fallacy guide, or other scholarly sources.