Lab 7 Daniel Kies Department of English College of DuPage Composition English 102 Email Form Lab 7 . All rights reserved. The goal of this lab is to help you learn and define logical fallacies. W hen many people think of the idea of persuasion , they think of television commercials, newspaper editorials, or print advertisements. Those are the obvious and blatant examples of persuasive language in our everyday lives.
Persuasion also influences our lives in many subtle, yet powerful, ways.
To see the power of persuasion, look around any classroom on any college campus and look at how the students and teachers are dressed. Literally, the shoes, clothes, and haircuts we choose are the direct result of our being persuaded to accept those styles for ourselves. Those styles were not invented by you or me, but social and cultural influences have persuaded us to adopt the look that we have. And our look becomes emblematic of our group identities. I have given you an outline of the issues I wish to cover in the last half of the quarter on the Logical Fallacies page.