Writing Topic: Rules for Writers, chapter 48

In Chapter 48 of Diana Hacker's "Rules for Writers"we learn about the various forms arguments we can present. Diana breaks the different types of arguments into Illogical fallacies such as stereotypes, generalizations, false analogy, post-hoc fallacies, making assumptions, and the omission of the other side of the story, or the lack of weighed options, untrue premise, unfair emotional appeals, and misleading quotations. All of these types of falsehoods can be countered by using the correct evidence or data in our writing when arguing our points. Emotions are harder to gauge but Diana shows a good example of the type of emotional plea that we shouldn't use like justifying something based on the fact that any attempt to argue against it comes from some type of person or group that the writer doesn't like, and even stereotypes possibly.

For me, I personally wish we could make stricter laws against our politicians that we pay for with our tax money. It being close to voting time, I have become dulled to the vagrant slandering and pitiful attempts to persuade me to vote based on one candidates negative views about the other. I know that there are a lot of different groups that use their muscle in the advertising, but any commercial that pops up and ends with "...And I approve this message" should be contested by an independent third party to verify all claims and that the commercial entails the details of both side of the story just like the FDA regulates our drug companies by forcing their commercials to include communication about the negative side effects and possible unsavory outcomes posed by the use of the drugs being sold.