The pieces
The basic argument statement is called this.
What is the claim.
To quote Ice Cube, Toulmin models can help us ____ourselves before we wreck ourselves (or our grades).
What is check?
Academic writing uses academic style guides like ___.
What are MLA and/or APA.
Linda Barry's article is about how ____ can be a sanctuary.
What is school?
We support the claim with these.
What are reasons?
When making a claim, we will want to back it up with good _____.
What are reasons?
Academic writing, in the USA at least, uses edited _____.
What is English.
Linda Barry's home life is excellent. True or false?
What is false?
A warrant consists of _____ made when considering an argument.
What are assumptions?
The benefit of a qualifier is that is can...
What is hedge an argument, or put boundaries around an argument?
Academic writing uses a _____ tone.
What is formal?
Barry escapes her bad home life by indulging in TV and ____.
What is art?
A warrant can be supported by facts called...
What is "backing?"
Words like possibly, sometimes, and unless are examples of...
Qualifiers.
Academic writing tends to use these to back up statements.
What are sources?
Barry believes that public schools are under-_____.
What is underfunded?
This can provide a counterargument a writer can consider.
What is the rebuttal?
It's important to consider counterarguments (or rebuttals) because...
What is wanting to anticipate what our opponent might argue.
Academic writing tends to feature a standard pattern of ______.
What is organization?
Barry uses the Pledge of Allegiance to conclude her argument by saying it's the government's turn to make a pledge to its ________
What are children?