Week 2 Summary

Week 2 Summary

Team C

Margaret Glenn, Omar Husein, Jenny Jiratanan

Rebecca Maloney, Felicia Moreno, Karen Romero

BCOM/275

Business Communication and Critical Thinking

Ms.Doris Savron

December 19, 2011

Week 2 Summary

On what grounds do we base a website or person’s credibility? Research done online has become the “norm” for a majority of students and researchers. The overabundance of knowledge available via the Internet comes from many sources that are both reliable and unreliable. Anyone can post to the internet, therefore determining the credibility of the information is crucial. Identifying whether the information posted is by an interested or disinterested party could be the difference between true or false data. A person that stands to gain from a belief in a claim is known as an interested party, and interested parties must be viewed with much more suspicion than disinterested parties (Moore, Parker, Rosenstand, & Silvers, 2009, Chapter 4).

The integral part and the basis of effective communication are directly linked to using accurate and effective data. There are times when even credible sources can contain human error (Moore, Parker, Rosenstand, & Silvers, 2009, Chapter 4). Inaccurate information can lead to confusion and, depending on what it is used for, could even create some severe consequences to the end user. For instance, if one was using the information for a medical purpose and it was ineffective or erroneous, this could cause the problem to escalate further and even become life threatening.

A persuasive rhetoric that could be persuasive is a deductive fallacy, and is generally a deductive fallacy argument which is invalid that very well can provide true premises nevertheless, the conclusion will be false. A deductive fallacy is more formal than that of an inductive fallacy. There is nothing more than just arguments that come out of inductive arguments; however the premises will not offer the needed support to the...