1. The Greenpeace and Mattel Controversy
Calling to authority is important in an article to convince the audience that others, potentially those are more credible than the author himself, is supporting the author's cause, and so the audience should, too. Keeping that in mind, the author invokes the names of well-known companies, organizations, and experts. ... To reinforce that choice of words chosen by the author, he must then use parallelism to repeat the words and reiterate the purpose. ... Although this fallacy makes the author's argument a little weaker, it functions to fortify the author's purpose of portraying M...
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