EXAMPLE #1 Article : The 7 Steps of Highly Cool People

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After reading the article, we think that the author practices a healthy lifestyle. The author encourages teenagers to become cool. Cool in the article means a wise person. The author claims that he is cool. For us, the author is silly. Why? Because doesn’t mean he think that his way of life is cool, people has to follow him. This statement relates to the fallacies of begging the question, hasty generalisation and appeal to emotion. The author includes the slippery slope fallacy; he said “smoking is really bad for health. It makes your teeth go yellow and give a pungent stench to your sweat. It is an expensive habit too”. The steps that he wrote in the article are more to social approach. We think the author should make wider approach for example social, mental, and spiritual. Furthermore, the steps in the article lack proof. For example, he uses a fallacy of appeal to ignorance in fifth step. He stated “we have actually found traces of poison in ecstasy”.  We cannot accept the fact that the author claim himself as The Guru of Cool. There is no proof or evidence that the author is the expert in this area. Plus, the author experienced different era from teenager’s nowadays, so he doesn’t understand teenagers feeling and wants. However, as a whole he got some point. As a conclusion, the article is good to read but don’t accept it fully since the lack of evidence and facts.

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