Read this excerpt from an editorial in a student newspaper.A teacher who needs ideas for a lesson can research the topic and use other teachers’ ideas in the lesson plan. It makes sense, then, for students who are doing a project or writing a report to use other students’ ideas in their work.

The editorial argues that because teachers may use other teachers’ ideas in lesson plans, students may also use other students’ ideas in projects or reports. The comparison assumes these situations are alike without showing that the differences between them don’t matter, so it is a false analogy. The correct choice is “false analogy.”

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