Posted: February 12th, 2016

Describe which fallacy from the list below is being used (sometimes it will be more than one).

In your initial post for this module, find an advertisement on the internet and embed or link your chosen advertisement in your initial post. Describe which fallacy from the list below is being used (sometimes it will be more than one). Describe the fallacy, by providing concrete examples from the commercial you have chosen. Please comment on at least two of your classmates’ chosen advertisements and whether there are any other fallacies. How could the argument of the advertisements be improved?

Unsupported Assertion

Ad Populum/Bandwagon

Ad Hominum

Post Hoc

Overgeneralization

Red Herring

False Analogy

False Dichotomy