“Recognition of Fallacies” (3-5 pages): using either an editorial or an op-ed column in
The New York Times or other approved daily newspaper as your basic text, identify
fallacies present in the article (there must be at least two of them). In your essay, you
should: 1) identify fallacious moves made in the article; 2) define and label those
fallacies, explaining clearly how and why the example selected meets the definition of the
fallacy; and 3) assess the importance of the fallacious moves to the overall argumentative
force of the article. In doing the latter step, you should offer a “tree diagram” of the main
argument and supporting argument chains. That is, analyze the argumentative
significance of the fallacies in the context of the overall argument structure.
Your paper should advance both a series of designative claims (e.g., the article being
studied commits these fallacies) and an evaluative claim in which you assess the ultimate
worth of the argument, given the fallacies. Your central claim is ultimately the evaluative
claim, supported in part by the designative claims. Your central claim (or thesis) should
for purposes of this paper be italicized. The italicized thesis sentence will help me to
recognize whether you understand how to construct a thesis statement.
Please attach a copy of the article that you a analyzing to your paper.

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