entry 1 (magazine)

The 7 Steps of Highly Cool People

Submitted to: Airil Haimi Mohd Adnan, tutor

In partial requirement for BEL 313,

Introduction to Critical Thinking.

Test #2, semester 1 2013/2014,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Seri

Iskandar Campus, Perak Darul Ridzuan.

Submitted by: Fatin Fatihah binti Saidi, UiTM # 2011264744

I think the author writes an article that makes me fun to read since I am a teenager. The author wants teenagers to become a cool person like him. But the article has no strong evidences that can support the steps given. There are some fallacy that can be found such as fallacies of begging the question, hasty generalisation and appeal to emotion through this statement “I am ‘the Guru of cool’ “. It is because the author said that he is an adult and cool person so I as a teenager must follow him without the evidence that he is a really cool person to be followed. According to this statement “smoking is really bad for health. It makes your teeth go yellow and give a pungent stench to your sweat” this is clearly the use of slippery slope. Next, in this statement “I know, I know, some of you are allowed to drink alcohol when you come of age“ it falls under the fallacy of appeal to tradition because the author claims that a person who reached certain age can drink alcohol while actually it is depends on the person itself. Other than that, he stated “we have actually found traces of poison in Ecstasy” it is an appeal to ignorance since the author wants the readers to accept that ecstasy is poison. In conclusion, even this article is not balanced due to some fallacy and cannot be fully accepted, it is still a good article to read.

(250 words)

-fatihah-