2. Example 2.
3. Example 3.
B. The second point and the weakest point
1. The first answer to the audience's anticipated question
about some weak point.
2. Answer 2
3. Answer 3
C. The third point and the strongest.
1. First example illustrating point C
2. Example 2
3. Example 3
3. The Conclusion:
Restate your position to the topic.
Restate your reasons in the same order as in the introduction
and body: A, B, C.
Introduce a fourth benefit from taking the position and make
it a personal, human interest benefit to leave the audience
in a good frame of mind.
APPENDIX 3
Argumentative Fallacies
Deductive reasoning is stating a series of valid relationships with a
reasonable conclusion.
When it rains the streets get wet.
It is raining.
Therefore the streets are wet.[1]
Several reasoning fallacies exist: (1)formal deductive fallacies,
which occur because of an error in the form of the argument, and (2)
informal false content fallacies.
(1) A formal deductive fallacy might switch a premise with the
conclusion:
The streets are wet.
When it rains the streets get wet.
Therefore it is raining.
This conclusion is fallacious because there are other reasons that
could have caused the street to be wet: snow melt, a street sweeper,
etc.
(2) Several informal false content fallacies are:
Logic errors:
* The "straw man" deception.
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