What I have learned

Over the course of the semester I have learned many ways to analyze and determine what is a good and bad argument. The main concept that has helped me has been the different types of fallacies and how to identify and look for them in arguments. This showed me how writers play up their writing or swing arguments in different ways to make their side more persuasive. Such examples are appeal to fear, where the viewer is threatened and makes a choice based on this, or appeal to emotion which is when you base something off of an emotion you feel and not what is actually being stated. Also fallacies such as the slippery slope where they greatly over exaggerate the argument, concepts like these helped me acknowledge good and bad arguments and help me not use these fallacies in my writing. They may sound creative but in the end it creates a week argument