one would like to come off as intelligent and well-spoken.

This is difficult to achieve when fallacies are apparent in

many varying fashions throughout the response. Fallacies

have the effect of weakening a statement by simply making

the writer appear uneducated. In the letter to editor

entitled, "Ten Commandments shouldn't be in schools" which

appears in The Pantagraph, there are many different examples

of fallacies which assume the undesired responsibility of

enfeebling the opinion of the writer. The basic view of the

writer is clear from the beginning of the response and while

there is nothing noticeably objectionable stated , one

becomes disillusioned by the author because of her literary

lying. The author's credibility is destroyed by the

abundance of fallacies , the first of which is a Straw man.

"How would you feel if, in addition to the Ten Commandments,

we posted the Satanic Ten Commandments?" The author is

clearly taking her adversary's view and twisting it to the

extreme. Obviously, no self-respecting school is going to

promote the worship of Satan and to

Commandments posted in school, then start your own school."

bestow worth on her opinion, the author borrows a prestige

constructs a statement that on the surface appears

discussed is whether or not the Ten Commandments should be

the topic were whether one's religious beliefs influence

plausible. However, upon further thought one discovers the

in this response it is simply a fallacy. In an effort to

8% to 10% of the population but account for only 1% of the

shattered because of the way the response was written and

prison population." However true this may be, unfortunately,

with the quote, "The Founding Fathers objected to the Church

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)