Reading 4.5 “Crooked and Fallacious Thinking.”

Reading 4.5 “Crooked and Fallacious Thinking.” This chapter argues that crooked and fallacious thinking is not only evidence of illogical mental processes and poor communication skill but is also a manipulative tool in the hands of the writer wishing to influence and affects the judgments of their readers. In this topic also, the presenter explained the subtopic that covers the topic, which are transfer device, circular arguments, false analogy, equivocation and either or assumption. Then, the presenter also told how this topic could relate with critical literacy. Crooked and fallacious thinking can be lead to misunderstand between writer and readers. Other than that, it is important to be able to interrogate the logic contained in the arguments in a text. Lastly, overall, the presentation was quite good and the presenter was come out with relevant examples.