Marty?s persuasive speech was about gun control and school violence. He made the statement,
?We either get rid of the guns in our society or we get ready for more school violence, like
what happened in Kentucky, Arkansas, and Colorado?.
This kind of argument represents a/an
________.
A) bandwagon fallacy B) ad hominem fallacy
C) appeal to misplaced authority D) either-or fallacy
D
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Julia prepared a __________speech to deliver to the Board of Directors of a potential client, hoping
that they would hire her consulting firm to conduct management training. A) ceremonial B) deliberative C) forensic D) categorical E) informative
As an advocate, you may attempt to resolve a value conflict by creating a decision
rule. Which of the following would NOT be one of these decision rules? (a) Prove that your value maximizes another agreed upon value. (b) Prove that your value has the more desirable consequences. (c) Prove that your value overcomes an existing cultural value. (d) Prove that your value subsumes (includes) opposing values.