Outline:
Introduction:
Attention Getter: Story about time I lied to my parents and tried to seem credible.
Credibility: I’m Ally, and I don’t know much about bigfoot, but this “encounter” took place in my
hometown.
Thesis: These people are desperately trying to sound credible when they’re actually not because
Bigfoot isn’t real.
Preview: We’re going to look at the ways it almost succeeds and how it obviously fails.
***Credit: Vrooman’s fallacy and P-OT charts
Body:
- Almost succeeds - mostly witness encounter
- Fallacies: appeal to misleading authority, bandwagon
- P-OT: facts, interpretation
- Obvious fails - mostly follow up report
- Fallacies: hasty generalization, anecdotal, cum hoc
- P-OT: metaphor, illustration
Conclusion:
Summary: Just some yee yee people who didn’t understand what they saw, and bigfoot people try to
make it seem super credible.
Clincher: If you want 5 seconds of fame from the bigfoot community, do what these people did.
It's good to focus on that this argument is trying desperately to sound real, rather than simply saying that this argument isn't real. Be cautious not to fall into the trap of simply arguing that this isn't a real story, because I think Vrooman told us not to do that. I like the "desperate" argument though, and I think it's a good direction to be in. :)
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