Hasty generalization

Counter argument outline I. Introduction: Thesis statement: Despite presenting strong points regarding parents’ monitoring their children, some of the author’s arguments were weak and groundless II. Common ground: Topic sentence: In her article, Woods had some very good points regarding this controversial matter A. First Idea: parents see it as protectiveness but teenagers consider it as an invasion of privacy B. Second Idea: Some clear-cut cases needs parents’ intervention such as sexting…

a A. Evaluating

B. Supporting

C. Paraphrasing

D. Questioning



 7) Which of the following are the most common types of doubts people may have about a source?

 A. Status and academic degree

B. Occupation and employer

C. Prominence in the field of study and experience

D. Expertise and accuracy



 8) Which of the following is the most reliable source of information?

 A. Wikipedia®

B. A blog

C. A book recommended by your instructor

D. Britannica Online®



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conclusions. Some of them include genetic fallacies, personal attack and appealing to force. 9. Hasty generalization is when the size of the sample population is too small to make a conclusion (Wallace). Nichols suggests that “being close to water can make us not only happier, calmer and more emotionally healthy, but also more successful in life, relationships and even business.” This is a hasty generalization because the writer says that the people who live close to water have all those…

literature, language, and culture when in reality it can be a number of other reasons such as, technology, differences in generations, etc. This claim is weak because of the lack of evidence used to help support his argument, which makes it a hasty generalization. Literature is a manifestation that will forever exist, I don’t believe that there is a threat. Literature has not lost its place in our society, but it has had to adapt to our developing societies. Literature has existed in different…

Those fallacies are slippery slope and hasty generalization. Hasty generalization is the strongest logical fallacy in her article. Paglia assumes that all men are rapist because of their genetics. “Hunt, pursuit and capture are biologically programed into the male sexuality” and “Masculinity is aggressive, unstable, and combustible” are all examples of her hasty generalization. Like Jacoby, author Dan Kahan also agrees that women do tend to give mixed signals…

I am guilty of committing logical fallacies, unintentionally, during my writing. It has been such a long time since I completed an argumentation paper. I cannot remember the mistakes I have made, and after reading this chapter, I probably made a few. Even so, in some of my recent short writing assignments or essays, I have had a few misconceptions justify my evidence, which led to incorrect reasoning. I thought it was appropriate to support some evidence with logic, depending on the argument…

The author of, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” does state a central point of the essay, but it’s not as clearly presented as I presume it could be. The central point in this essay is laid out in a group of paragraphs instead of a clear cut thesis sentence. The hypothesis appears to be that the internet may chip away at someone’s capacity for concentration and contemplation. As a result, the author follows that train of thought with a potential thesis sentence; which states something along the…

In Inside a Murdering Mind by Anne E. Schwartz, Schwartz tells the story of a man named Jeffery Dahmer. Jeffery Dahmer was a seemingly normal man who live in Milwaukee, however, as the story goes, Dahmer was far from normal. In reality, he was a serial killer who would kill for the purpose of having sex with the corpse of his victims then he would occasionally, eat their flesh. In this critical essay, Anne E, Schwartz discusses a handful of possible reason for Jeffery Dahmer’s awful crimes and…

criminal justice cases are found by media coverage. However the media is a very interesting tool. To better elaborate, it is for the most part used to inform the general public of current events, sadly it is also full of logical fallacies such as Hasty Generalizations, Applying to Authority and Faulty Cause. In addition, the media uses these logical fallacies when creating their arguments and informing the public it can result in changing the mind of the viewer. Moving on, people have access to…

Since a young age, I have always been a tremendously curious child. The passionate goal that I held as a four year old was to find out the truth behind the cold temperature of the refrigerator and when I had turned seven, I was fascinated by gravity. One of the notions I firmly believed was that if you beat your arms in the air like a bird, you would be able to fly. However, only when I had jumped off the family couch, I realized the truth and that my notion was a mere “delusion”. Throughout…