Logical Fallacies Convincing Argument
Complete section 7 (Logical fallacies) of https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/problem-solving-and-decision-making/.
For this assignment, you will play the role of an employee attempting to persuade a key decision maker to take the course of action you believe to be best for the company. Your post will have two parts: the background and the argument.
Background
For the background, simply provide the details listed below. The company and information can be real, based on your own personal or professional experience, or completely imaginary.
- Company:
- Industry:
- Headquarters Location:
- Number of employees:
- Major product(s)/service(s):
- Target market(s):
Argument
Next, imagine yourself as an employee of this company. Write a persuasive argument in which you are attempting to convince a key decision maker to agree to a strategic decision that you believe is vital for the company. However, in your argument you must purposefully include statements based on the four logical fallacies in the tutorial (false cause, straw man, begging the question, and false dilemma). In other words, you must purposefully use logical fallacies to convince the decision maker. Pretend that you have no scruples about persuading other using fallacious arguments. Try to include some sort of metric or statistic in your argument.
You will need to be a little creative here to come up with a scenario. It may help to come up with a list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for your company and to give a name to the person you are attempting to persuade. You can think of it as a scene in a movie where you are playing the character of an employee at company X and attempting to convince a key decision maker at that company. Your argument will be the script for what your character would say during that scene.
Label the statements containing the logical fallacies with a parenthesis containing the name of the fallacy at the end of the statement. For example, “We either agree to launch a new product this month, or we go out of business. There is no other option.” (False Dichotomy)
Replying to another student is not required, but you may do so if you wish.