The new director of nurses has instituted "walking rounds" on all nursing units, rather than the usual taped shift reports. A veteran nurse exclaims, "She doesn't know how we do things here!" The nurse is demonstrating:
A) appeal to emotion.
B) appeal to tradition.
C) red herring.
D) straw man.

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An appeal to tradition is the argument that doing things a particular way is best because they've always been done that way.

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