Core of an Argument
Structure of an Argument
Effective Evidence
Moving Your Audience
Responding to Objections
100
the position you want your audience to accept
What is a claim
100
an incomplete logical structure that has a missing premise/underlying assumption
What is an enthymeme
100
Americans are delaying marriage at a surprising rate. In 1970, 85 percent of Americans between ages 25 and 29 were married.
What is statistical data?
100
Create this by being knowledgeable about your topic
What is ethos
100
If your audience agrees with you already your argument is
What is one sided
200
This is also called a reason; generally linked to the claim with connecting words like BECAUSE
What is a premise
200
Supporting evidence that causes an audience to accept your reason.
What is grounds?
200
Even though Ritalin is considered to be overprescribed, my little brother depends on Ritalin to help him in school. Before, he was a terror.
What is personal experience.
200
Use strong, specific, concrete language to create this.
What is pathos?
200
If your audience is neutral or undecided, your audience is?
What is multi-sided?
300
These lack shared assumptions
What is a pseudo argument
300
Underlying assumption the audience must accept is called this.
What is the warrant
300
Consider what may happen inf we continue to use biotech soybeans that are resistant to herbicides. The resistant gene, through cross-pollination, might be transferred to an ordinary weed, creating an out-of-control superweed.
What is hypothetical examples
300
Building the credibility of your argument by using solid evidence and credible sources builds your...
What is ethos?
300
If your audience is skeptical, your audience will likely be. . .
What is dialogic?
400
two things a rational argument requires
What is reasonable participants who operate withing the conventions of reasonable behavior and shared assumptions that can serve as foundation of argument
400
Evidence supporting the warrant
What is the backing?
400
School shooting victim, Jane Doe, testified that she witnessed the tragic event and saw the bloodshed firsthand.
What is testimony
400
Timeliness and fitness of arguments
What is Kairos?
400
This is a type of dialogic argument?
What is Rogerian?
500
What should be the origin of your argument
What is an issue question
500
This limits the force of a claim and indicates the degree of its probable truth.
What is the qualifier
500
You must use the STAR criteria for your evidence. STAR stands for this.
What is sufficiency, typicality, accuracy, relevance
500
Name 3 of the 5 questions to asked yourself to analyze your audience?
What is... Who is your audience? How much do they know about your issue? What is your audience's current stance? What will your audience's objections be? What values, beliefs, etc. about the world do you and your audience share?
500
Besides a Rogerian argument, what are two other types of structures we discussed? (for multi-sided arguments?)
What is classical and Toulmin?
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