Hasty Generalization Examples

Hasty Generalization – an example of this would be someone making a judgement after seeing or meeting someone one time. If you decided someone was a bad person after meeting them one time would not be a fair conclusion. This would need to be avoiding when writing because you do not want to write something based on something you read once; find other resources to confirm it is true. Your readers might believe anything you write.
Sweeping Generalization – this is when you state that everyone likes something when you do not have the facts to prove it. If you have a vote stating that all agree that would support that statement; if you don’t, you would need to say “some” people agree instead of saying “all” do. You cannot write assuming everyone

feels the same way, you need supporting facts and graphs before making judgment.
Ad Hominem (argument to the person) – an example of this would be someone personally attacking someone that had nothing to do with what they are upset about. Address the issue, not the person. This would absolutely kill your writing if you attached a person instead of explaining why the issue at hand is a problem. You will lose all credibility from your readers if you do not write with morals, humility, and intelligence.
Non Se quitur – this would be someone assuming someone can write romantic poetry just because they are good at writing drama based poetry. We can attempt to write something we have never written before, it is important not to assume we can do it just because we have written something similar. We need to educate ourselves before writing.
Either/Or Fallacy – this would be someone deciding a situation has two sides when it might have one. We have to let the readers decide, we cannot ask them to. When writing we need to do enough research to decide if something is a fact; we cannot assume anything. You can however give enough information for your reader to do their own research to draw a conclusion.
Begging the Question – before anyone makes a statement like “the state of Tennessee has 5 million people that live here.” You need to have supporting facts that prove this statement is true.
Bandwagon – this would be someone saying they agree with something just because everyone around them say it is true without the facts. Don’t assume something is good just because everyone is getting it. When adding your own thoughts in your writing be careful not to saying something is right just because you think so.