Logical fallacies occur frequently in argumentative writing, so recognizing them would be a useful skill. Below are additional examples of the twelve logical fallacies I've asked you to remember. See if you can label each with its correct fallacy:

1. If such actions were not illegal, then they wouldn't be prohibited by the law.

2. You should never gamble. Once you start gambling, you'll find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all of your money on gambling and you'll have to turn to crime to support your habit.

3. America: love it or leave it.

4. Millions of people think President Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA. Are you going to insist on your "lone gunman" theory?

5. I don't trust the news when it's read by someone who's got hair like that.

6. Look at the cartoon below and decide which fallacy has been committed:

7. I hope you give Frank the job. He's really depending on this job to get him through some serious debts he's got at home.

8. A college is just like a business and like a business must always attend to the bottom line.

9. Wow, that Australian has got a voice like a megaphone. Have you ever noticed how loudly Australians talk in public places?

10. Why do business majors have to take English classes? The accounting classes are tough enough as it is already!

11. Some pesticides pose a serious threat to human health because they are extremely toxic and even lethal, so we should prohibit the use of pesticides in commercial farming.

12. You've got to stay here and work on the farm. Your father tilled this land, and his father before him. This is what you were born to do. 

13. Jesse's car has a loud engine, so it must be fast.