IB TOK ESSAY
As a critical thinker, you may want to distinguish between correct information, misinformation, biased reporting, and deliberate persuasion in your everyday news and articles of the word. To do so one must have a vast knowledge of language and know its many uses. Language may be used to understand, predict, and control the world around us so that we can survive and prosper, to maintain and improve our relationships with those around us to that we have more friends, fewer enemies, and can love and be loved, and to have pleasant rather than unpleasant experiences and to enjoy as much of our lives as we possibly can. Language is the primary way to distinguish between facts and false information in everyday news in this era.
First and foremost, there are many ways to detect correct information when reading articles of the world. Correct information will use language properly and will maintain a connectedness throughout it. It will create strings of words and sentences to help make connections to make the article clear and concise. Correct information will contain warranted statements to support other assertions. These statements will be factual and relevant to the topic at hand. Although, to be sure these statements are true or false or not we must look into our own knowledge, or, web of belief. These web is a web we have constructed and continue to construct in order to link together the statements which express our beliefs. The center of this web is occupied by our most entrenched belief statements, those it would be hardest to give up. We warrant our belief statements to ourselves by fitting them into our web. If statements stated in news does not mesh with any of our belief statements in our webs of belief than that statement is most unlikely to be regarded as unfactual and therefore will be thrown out. This is done consciously in our minds and helps us determine whether information is correct or not.
The Essay on Noah Webster American Dictionary Language
Noah Webster, familiar to most Americans as the writer of the first American dictionary, worked as a schoolteacher in the late eighteenth century. As he taught, he came to realize that there were some major problems with the way English was taught in the American schools. The United States of America had recently declared its independence from England, and was struggling to form its own identity. ...
To identify misinformation in today’s society, one must comprehensively read the document and obey their web of belief. Misinformation in the most part may have unfactual statements that do not with comply with the topic at hand. Businesses will do this for their own benefit and will disregard the factuality of their statements. Premises will be used that do not other warranted statements. Premises provide evidence of claims; they do not justify belief in the claim they try to help us understand how or why the claimed event occurred. Misinformation will usually contain false evidence of the claim to try and misinform the reader on a certain event. All of this leads to an unwarranted conclusion that is held by some unfactual statements, false premises, and false claims. These combined together to do not provide sufficient explanations and question the validity of the issue. The paradigm of human rationality makes people tend to follow logic, and deductive reasoning. This is why people may think misinformation is something that is not formally reasoned and does not seem totally rational, but the information may still be factual just does not seem full rational, and this is a counter claim that may be used when somebody is trying to validate the supposed misinformation. To distinguish misinformation from correct information the person receiving the information most look at the topic from all view points, considering all biases. Then the reader must contemplate which information is the not valid and has the most unfactual statements and premises, while warranting a seemingly unfactual conclusion.
The Essay on Bias Reporting
The Olympics are said to be the leading event of sport showdowns on the international scale. They rank number one in all aspects of entertainment. From ratings to coverage to publicity, the Olympics top all of these categories and then some others. It is well understood that the general public is easily swayed by many things, but none more powerful than television. During the broadcasting of the ...
Readers may want to identify biased reporting in news today. Biased reporting occurs when the reporter puts his or her own opinion into an event and looks at from one side of the story. The reporter overlooks all of the aspects of the story and neglects to play the role of devil’s advocate to look at everything from all viewpoints. In certain countries like Iran or Iraq biased reporting is very common. The governments there block all viewpoints so to control the ideas and the opinions of the people. This is why they may use biased reporting and also it is used as a way to incorporate propaganda. The problem with biased reporting and propaganda is that is tends to tell people how to think instead of letting them make up their own minds. In George Orwell’s 1984, the government controls the people using propaganda and biased reporting about the alleged wars with other countries. Biased news can change certain opinions and can be used to change a person’s web of belief to something not usually supported by the person’s web of belief. Identifying biased reporting should be simple if the person receiving the reports maintains a firm view on an item and is being forced to extract this opinion for another that they otherwise would not consider.
Deliberate persuasion can easily go unnoticed while achieving its own objective. Our methods of thinking, or paradigms, easily allow this to occur. Deliberate persuasion can be targeted if the reader reads or hears an item and the item has been able to try to get the reader to reconsider his or her thoughts, and discard them for the ones being given to them. To avoid being persuaded one must be stern with their personal beliefs and not allow themselves to be swayed to think something else. The news may have an item that contains an error in reasoning with more frequency than we would like. This reasoning is called fallacious reasoning and often occurs in patterns. They are referred to simply as fallacies. These fallacies allow the persuader to come to abrupt and unwarranted conclusions that will attempt to influence the reader to change his or her own personal opinion. Also persuasive information may often tend to reason with probability instead of deductive reasoning, formal logic. Once again this will lead to false premises and claims that will be followed by a erroneous conclusion.
The Essay on Elmer Gantry Book Reader Makes
The majority of all books are trash. Sinclair Lewis Elmer Gantry is a great book because it has credibility, a timeless theme, and it has the necessary action. Any book that can do that is a great book. The credibility of Elmer Gantry is something that will keep this book eternally great. Although the actual time period is dated, the plot is not dated. Most people can relate to the different ...
Misinformation, biased reporting, and persuasive information all may often include arguments that do not contain the necessary links, premises, and evidence to be regarded and identified as correct information. Like some empiricists claim, we can be certain about at least some of the statements that we make because some of them are warranted directly by experience. When misinformation too often negates this we will tend to throw out of our web of belief and discard it.
Language is the key way to communicate in our world. We use it in many ways and it would be utterly impossible to live in this world without it. We can use it to distinguish between correct information, misinformation, biased reporting, and deliberate persuasion in our everyday newsworld. We must understand language to do so and the more knowledge we have of language the better can make this separation. Language is the principal way to make this distinction.
