Saturday, October 23, 2010
Writing Assignment #2
Doing an assignment on social organizations was useful because it helped clarify the use of fallacies, reasoning, concealed claims, and use of emotional appeal. While doing this assignment we learned the importance of fallacies and how to not use them when it was easy to by pass the things we were saying. The main thing from this assignment was how to use the things we learned in the book such as reasoning from hypotheses in real life situations. While learning these types of things it is easy to brush it off and think nothing of it, but when focusing on these certain aspects of a social thing then we realize that we do use these things in everyday life. It was also interesting to learn about concealed claims and then use it in the assignment. It was interesting to realize how many social organizations use concealed claims to get their point across without saying it directly.
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I definitely agree with you. The second assignment helped me learn more about the use of appeal to emotion. I had never really taken notice to the use of this concept before but now I can see on many different website how organizations use this concept to their benefit. Organizations indeed use it to get a point across. This concept is also seen on T.V. through commercials. An example would be a commercial for P.E.T.A. Appeal to emotion has an impact on the viewer to want them to do a certain thing whether it’s making a donation or just to inform them about an issue.
ReplyDeleteThis assignment did help me to learn a lot about fallacies an how many people use them. I also thought it was funny that there are many concealed claims used all the time but we don't pay attention to most of them but we should. We should critically analyze arguments and supports especially if you will be donating money to an organization or even just supporting it. Organizations do specifically ant to put their ideas across even if that means not stating everything. But what is even better, is when an organization uses truths because that would make you more in favor of their beliefs.
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