English Composition › Section K · Reasoning strategies › Topic K.1
Logic, reasoning strategies, and fallacies
An argument persuades a careful reader only if its reasoning holds up. Learning how deduction and induction work, how writers organise reasoning, and where reasoning goes wrong lets you test other people's arguments and build stronger ones of your own.
In this topic
- Logic: reasoning a reader can test
- Deductive reasoning: valid and sound
- Inductive reasoning: probable conclusions
- Six reasoning strategies and their signal words
- Worked example: naming the strategies
- Fallacies of relevance
- Fallacies of weak induction
- Fallacies of presumption
- Worked example: diagnosing a weak argument
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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