Writing for academic purposes/ENGA102/Supporting your arguments/fallacies

Logical Fallacies and How to Avoid them

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Consider the following questions:

1. What is a logical fallacy?
2. What are the different kinds of fallacies?
3. What kind of damage can using a logical fallacy do to your argument?

Read Logical Fallacies from the Writing Commons, written by Jessica McKee and Megan McIntyre to learn more about logical fallacies. Be sure to check out the resource links at the bottom of the article. Then read the Fallacies section of the Critical Reasoning course from WikiEducator to further refine your understanding of fallacies.