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Fallacies & Pitfalls in Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page lists and explains 18 of the most commonly used logical fallacies. "The name of each fallacy is followed by a brief description and an example from the field of psychology."
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Common Logical Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on logical fallacies including defining them, discussing the different types of logical fallacies, and a practice activity.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Spotting Logical Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on recognizing common logical fallacies and evaluating them in texts. It also provides a practice exercise.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: The Writing Center: Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discussion of common fallacies, along with definitions, examples, and tips on avoiding them.
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Cal State Fullerton: Common Fallacies in Reasoning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page from California State University at Fullerton list twenty-three common fallacies in reasoning. Each includes an explanation and two examples. The list includes the following: faulty cause, sweeping generalization, hasty...
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Lumen: Critical Reading: Logic and Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on structure and logic including types and purposes of essays, organizational patterns, argumentative writing, and logic and fallacies.
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Stanford University

Relevance Logic/stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the topic of relevance (or relevant) logics. Presents the theory and applications of relevance logic, which attempts to resolve "fallacies of relevance."
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Contemplation and Argumentation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided unit, you will read Romantic and Transcendental literature and you will practice the art of persuasion using rhetorical devices, appeals, and refutation while avoiding logical fallacies. By the end of the unit, you...
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Pressbooks: Let's Get Writing: Chapter 3: Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This chapter focuses on writing an argument including what is an argument, types of arguments, elements of arguments, layouts, claims, counterarguments, evidence, validity, types of fallacies, and more. W.9-10.1 Arguments, W.11-12. 1...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Logical Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on using logical appeals in persuasive speeches including inductive and deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning and associative reasoning, forming a rational appeal, and errors in reasoning-formal and informal.
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Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Manipulative Appeals to Ethos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the ways appeals to ethos can be manipulative including lying about their credentials and employing a number of tricks or fallacies to lure you to their point of view.
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Dr. Wheeler's Website: Rhetoric

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A definition of Rhetoric along with links to additional information on logos, ethos, and pathos. Common Rhetorical Mistakes and an explanation of how rhetoric works are also provided.

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