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10808185948Ethoscredibility0
10824589775PathosAppeal to emotion1
10824592561LogosAppeal to logic2
10824597732BandwagonA fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable.3
10868205796ad hominema fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute4
10868210311False Dilemma (Either/or)A fallacy in which the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices.5
10868215136emotional fallacyuse emotion in place of reason in order to attempt to win the argument.6
10868218547Hasty Generalizationa fallacy in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence7
10868259806Begging the Question/Circular Reasoningattempting to prove a proposition based on a premise that itself requires proof8
10868268189non sequitura conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement ex: (its raining outside so i can't go to school)9
10868334784straw man fallacya statement that refutes a claim that was never made10
10868356927faulty analogyassuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily alike in some other respect11
10868546297EquivocationA key term in an argument changes meaning during the course of the argument. (Nobody is perfect, I'm nobody, so I'm perfect)12
10868684613MLAModern Language Association13
10868692071essay should be typed in12 pt. Times New Roman or Cambria font14
10868696851Set all margins to1 inch15
10868733061Put at the end in parenthesis, with the end punctuation on theoutside16
10868738981Be sure to put direct quotes in"quotation marks"17
10868775950Use a slash ( / ) to separate lines breaks inpoetry18
10868778875To add words use[ ]19
10868781650to omit words use...20
10868811292anon.anonymous21
10868813826ante.before22
10868815566ca. (or c. or circa)around a given date23
10868818992cf.confer24
10868822400ch. or chs.chapter or chapters25
10868826328ed. or eds.edition, edited by, or editors26
10868831206et. al.and others27
10868836991el seq.and the following28
10868839112Ibid. or ibidemin the same place29
10868846409loc. cit.In the place cited30
10868849787ms.manuscript31
10868852673n.d.no date32
10868854810n.p.no place of publication33
10868858320p. or pp.page or pages34
10868860418passimall over, here and there35
10868865708q.v.go to another place36
10868869815rev.revisited37
10868874137trans. or tr.translated38
10868877418v. inf. or vide infrasee below39
10868885224How do you order citations on the works cited page?alphabetical40

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