ENTRY 1 [MAGAZINE]

The 7 Steps of Highly Cool People

Submitted to: Airil Haimi Mohd Adnan, tutor

In partial requirement for BEL313,

Introduction to Critical Thinking.

Test #2, Semester 1 2013/2014,

Universiti Teknologi MARA,

Seri Iskandar Campus, Perak Darul Ridzuan.

Submitted by: Zur Ain Aisyah Bt. Sharif, UiTM #2011242322

To me, this article very interesting and very nice to read, but to me, the writer does not have enough substance when he wrote this article. Because, the author considered himself “The Guru of Cool”, so he assume that all teenagers will follows what he wrote in the 7 Steps of Highly, the teenagers will became ultra-cool and super suave i-teenagers. Based on this article, there is fallacies appeal to ignorance. Because the author have no conclusive evidence and he wants the teenagers follows his conclusion on the article.

First fallacies that I think the author include in the article is slippery slope. The author wrote that “…but smoking is really bad for health”, “It makes your teeth go yellow and gives a pungent stench to your sweat”. These all are the effect from smoking.  Other than that, the author used hasty generalization because he said that “Professional racers have been trained since young on racing circuit and cute-go-karts. After years of experience, they graduate to 500cc bikes or F1 cars.” Not all the professional racers have been trained since young. Besides that, the author also said that “I know, I know, some of you are allowed to drink alcohol when you come of age” this is an appeal to tradition because in my religion we are not allowed to drink alcohol.

Overall, I think this article is very interesting and gave teenagers the knowledge to be a cool teenager but, this article is not suitable for the teenagers nowadays.

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