Mastering Argumentation and Rhetoric

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*Front:* Ad Hominem

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attacking the person making the argument instead of addressing the argument itself

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*Front:* Straw Man

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misrepresenting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack

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*Front:* Red Herring

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introducing irrelevant information to distract from the actual issue

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*Front:* Ad Populum

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arguing that something is true because a lot of people believe it

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*Front:* Slippery Slope

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arguing that a small first step will lead to extreme, undesirable outcomes

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*Front:* Ethos

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moral character

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*Front:* Pathos

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emotion

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*Front:* Logos

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logic

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*Front:* Thesis Statement

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the central claim of an essay

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*Front:* Topic Sentence

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the main idea of a paragraph