Question 2

Audience fallacies are incorrect assumptions made for the audience. For example, if a writer says that people think McDonald’s is gross without having facts to back it up, then that author made a generalization that is very possibly wrong. Authorial fallacies are also incorrect assumptions, but in this case they are making assumptions on the way they feel about a topic. For example, if an author doesn’t have the facts to back up his or her argument, then it can easily be false. It is important to avoid both of these fallacies in writing, because when generalizations are made and arguments are not backed up by facts, it is very hard to believe the author’s arguments.