Across
- 5. This type of audience is difficult to write for because it includes people from a variety of backgrounds & attitudes toward your subject.
- 11. This type of argument judges something good, bad, the best, or the worst based on certain criteria.
- 12. This strategy labels their opposition without clearly defining the terms they use.
- 13. This type of audience is the easiest to address because they already agree with you.
- 14. This is not arguable because it's already generally accepted as truth.
- 15. This diversionary tactic refutes another person’s actual position by substituting an exaggerated or distorted version of that position.
- 17. A writer commits this fallacy when they arrive at a conclusion based on too little evidence.
- 18. This fallacy occurs when a person only gives evidence that supports their premise, while disregarding or withholding contrary evidence.
- 20. An argument that comes in response to another argument
- 21. This type of argument attempts to persuade an audience to take a particular course of action.
- 22. A claim supported by one or more reasons
- 24. This strategy comes up with excuses and weak explanations for their own and others’ behavior.
- 25. This type of citation comes directly after a paraphrase, quote, or summary.
- 26. This strategy minimizes the argument, not taking into consideration the vast complexities involved in most situations.
- 28. This part of an argument supports the reasons.
- 29. From the Latin for “does not follow,” this fallacy draws a conclusion that does not follow logically from the premise.
- 30. This argument presumes that one event will inevitably lead to a chain of other events that end in a catastrophe.
- 32. The thesis of an argument
- 34. This strategy exaggerates positions and groups by representing them as extreme and divisive.
- 35. This fallacy compares things that don't match up feature for feature.
- 36. This type of rebuttal argument offers an opposing claim.
- 37. The name of your sources page in MLA format.
Down
- 1. This fallacy makes the claim that everyone is thinking this or doing that.
- 2. It's best to offer a lot of information to this type of audience because they haven't yet made up their minds.
- 3. This fallacy passes off as true something that needs to be proven.
- 4. This type of argument speculates on how one thing could lead to something else.
- 6. This is the most difficult audience to address because they have already taken a stance against your position.
- 7. This type of argument emphasizes the shortcomings in another argument.
- 8. An error in logic
- 9. This use of a source offers someone else's ideas in your own words.
- 10. This method for finding causes suggests that if a possible cause and a possible effect have a similar pattern of variation, then one can suspect that a relationship exists.
- 11. This error in logic is sometimes called a "false dilemma"because it simplifies complex issues down to only two options.
- 16. This type of argument attempts to persuade an audience to take a particular point of view.
- 19. When dealing with audience that you know doesn't agree with your position, it's best to find this.
- 23. An appeal to ethics or credibility
- 27. This method for finding causes works only when there are at least two similar situations, one that leads to an effect and one that doesn’t.
- 31. An appeal to emotion
- 33. An appeal to logic
- 34. From the Latin for “after this, therefore because of this,” this type of fallacy establishes a questionable cause-and-effect relationship between events.