Too often in composition classrooms the logical fallacies are taught as a list to be memorized for a later quiz or exam.
They are taught because they feel like "content" in a course that can sometimes feel light on content.
That is something I don't approve of.
I first learned of these ideas in an intro to logic course in the philosophy department at Madison. In that class we spent time going over examples and exploring why such methods of argument are problematic. This led nicely into the course on sentential logic.
The video here does a lot of the same work. It spends time with each fallacy and shows viewers what the fallacy looks like "in the wild."
This is something I approve of.
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