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Fake News (Links to an external site.): A student guide developed by Melissa Zimdars (Links to an external site.). an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass.

What is Fake News?Links to an external site. SRJC Library Guide

Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts Does the distinction between "facts" and "opinions" make sense?

Never Tweet: Fahad Manjoo discusses the distorting effects of Twitter on journalism

Chapter 2 Links

What is an Argument? (Power Point Notes)

Practice analyzing arguments

Chapter Three Links

Argument Evaluation Power Point Slides

Albert Einstein Logic Puzzle

Practice Exercises for Deductive Validity

Chapter Five Links

Fallacies and the Concept of Relevance

Fallacies of Relevance Power Point Slides

Ad Hominem (Links to an external site.): Argument Clinic

Stephen Colbert Demonstrates the Straw Man Fallacy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Chapter Six Links

Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence Power Point Slides

Slippery Slope fallacy: (Links to an external site.)Mini Video Lecture

Solutions to Exercises

Exercise 2.1 part I