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: Siti Syamimi binti Zainuddin, UiTM # 2011204518    

I think this article is interesting to read but the facts given really need to think wisely. It is because this article is based on personal opinion rather than relevant facts.

Firstly, there is ad hominem since the author got distracted from the real issue. The author wrote about “smoking which give bad effect to the health and distract it which smoking can be used for dating, CDs, DVDs, clothes and more”. Secondly, there is appeal to tradition through the statement “I knows, I know, some you are allowed to drink alcohol when you come of age” because in Islam, it is forbidden to do so. Thirdly, appeal to ignorance can be clearly seen when the author made a conclusion with lack of evidence based on the phrases, “you might slowly turn into a bench, and people might start sitting on you”. Fourthly, the author shows the similarity between things but not relevant which is commonly known by weak analogy. Beside, referring to the statement “boys and girls, together with his army called the Nazis, this very bad man did many bad things” the author has shown irrelevant similarity between things. Lastly, through the statement of “I know for a fact that most of your parents now allow you to frequent nightspots” is definitely another presence of appeal to tradition.

In a nutshell, I believe that this article lack of solid evidence and research based on the fallacies found. The author’s personal opinion does not always produce a good article.

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by MIMI