READING 4.5 (CROOKED AND FALLACIOUS THINKING)

Based on presentation by Mastika and Syuhada, they explain meaning about crooked and fallacious. Crooked is not in a straight line and fallacious is wrong based on false idea. In the simply meaning, it is a logical thinking. Entails the ability to think logically and recognize and analysis instances of crooked and fallacious thinking. This reading also about a manipulative tool in the hands of speaker wishing to influence and affect the judgment of their reader which is Medium that use by the crooked and fallacious thinker to make people trust and ignore it. Presenters give the examples by find the donation to build mosque from Muslim not from other religion followers. A crooked thinker may give the impression that he is saying something meaningful and logical when he is fact not proving anything. The presenter said that a false analogy used to support an argument in fact prove nothing. For examples, some advertisement creates to give high expectation to consumers. Asking false question is in the case, the crooked thinker makes an unfair assumption in his question. Mis leading questions of this sort are often asked by lawyers when their make their cross examination. The presenters also state the critical literacy element in this articles which are audience, that involve in communication, rhetorical function: to explain and educate the reader and purpose is to explain and educate the people who involve in communication about the ‘crooked and fallacious thinking’.Overally, this presentation is okay.