Genres of Argument
GENRES OF ARGUMENT: Written by attorneys or judges. Court decisions explaining the reasoning of justices on civic cases.
What are legal briefs or court decisions?
Directly states a claim and supports it with reasons and evidence.
What is explicit argument?
Argument is NOT _________________.
-A pro-con debate.
-A fight
This term refers to the filter, lens, or selective seeing through which the writer is approaching the issue.
What is angle of vision or bias?
Greek philosopher who believed that law and morals are universal, objective, and natural.
Who is Plato?
GENRES OF ARGUMENT: In-house documents or PowerPoint presentations aimed at influencing organizational policy or decisions or giving informed advice to clients.
What are organizational white papers?
Implies a claim; can be a poem or short story, a photograph or cartoon, or an autobiographical narrative.
What is implicit argument?
This is another name for the belief or opinion that drives an argument.
What is the claim?
This refers to the target of any given writer's argument.
What is the audience?
These Ancient Greeks believed that laws and morals were subject, self-interested, and manmade.
Who are the sophists?
GENRES OF ARGUMENT: Promote views of the newspaper owners/editors. Often written in response to political events or social problems in the news.
What are editorials?
Explicit or Implicit Argument: A passage from Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God that implies that black women deserve equal rights (4-5)
What is Implicit Argument?
Argument is both a process and a ___________. The process is the argument where two or more people seek the best solution to a question. The _____________ is the contributions from each part.
What is product?
This refers to the motivating occasion that spurred a writer to engage in an argument.
What is the authorial purpose?
This modern rhetorician created the Believing and Doubting game.
Who is Peter Elbow?
GENRES OF ARGUMENT: Published in newspapers and some magazines. Provides a forum for citizens to voice views on public issues.
What are letters to the editor?
Explicit or Implicit Argument: Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's immoral. In fact challenging immoral laws is deeply engrained in American history. For example, consider the Fugitive Slave Laws.
What is Explicit Argument?
Name one of the two conditions that must be met to call something an argument.
What are:
-There must be two or more conflicting assertions.
-The attempt to resolve the conflict through an appeal to reason.
This refers to a recurring type or pattern of argument such as a letter to the editor, a political cartoon, or the homepage of an advocacy website.
What is the genre of argument?
According to one famous philosopher every thesis has a corresponding _____________.
What is antithesis?
GENRES OF ARGUMENT: Formerly nonfiction reporting, these now range widely from efforts to document reality objectively to efforts to persuade viewers to adopt the filmmaker's perspective or take action.
What are documentary films?
Explicit or Implicit Argument: a poem about the impact of WWI on the minds of soldiers who fought in the war.
What is implicit argument?
An argument that is all "persuasion" and zero "truth-seeking" might also be called...
What is propaganda?
This term refers to where the writer falls on the continuum of arguments from truth seeking to persuasion.
What is degree of advocacy?
The term dialectic is associated with this German philosopher.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.