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Which option uses person-first language?

Identify the fallacy:Women have a greater risk of being hit by lightning than marrying after age forty.

Identify the type of argument:An argument that does not immediately appear to be an argument, but is more subtle.

Identify the fallacy:Our memories look more like impressionistic paintings than like TiVos.

Identify the fallacy:You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.

Which option is the most appropriate person-first wording?

Identify the type of argument:The writer of this type of argument does not take a position, but aims instead to communicate the positions taken by the various sides in accurate and clear language.

Identify the rhetorical appeal:As a professor at a liberal arts college, I must take a stand and refuse to take any more responsibility for student failure. If students plagiarize, it is not because my assignment was not creative enough. (Letter to the editor)

Identify the type of argument:An argument that appeals primarily to the emotion, the subconscious, even to bias and prejudice.

Identify the fallacy:Since rowdy fans turned over cars and created a public nuisance after the soccer game, its is time to examine the importance of sports in our culture.