PPT-Chapter 5: Constructing Arguments

Savannah Nordeen Heidi Nam Sean Capangpangan Justin Cruz How do you proceed in an argument Try to present and support your claims to your intended audience in a way that is persuasive Try to make an argument valid and effective by doing research and examine the issue carefully and comprehend fully. For example Which branch of government can be considered the most powerful What role did stemcell research play in the 2004 presidential election Or explore the construction of race through Toni Morrison s The Bluest Eye Each of these require you t ?. Common Arguments. Debate Preview?. Allen . Hainline. Reasonable Faith UTD. September 26, 2013. www.OriginsDiscussion.info. Let’s go out to eat with ASH after the debate. Outline. More Fine-Tuning discussion. p the understanding of human action. the concepts of soul, sensation, and the emoDescartes and Kant extolled the capacitieempiricist philosophers such as Locke and Hobbes emphasized the significance o Definitions, theses, arguments is empirically scrutablefrom C iff: if the speaker knew all members of C, she Fitchian truthis one that is unknowable because properly investigating its truthvalue [by Lecture Notes. An Introduction to. Inductive Arguments. Chapter 9. Induction is the basis for our commonsense beliefs about the world. . In the most general sense, . inductive reasoning. , is that in which we extrapolate from experiences to what we have not yet experiences. . Pinning Down Argument Structure. Chapter 2. Before we can evaluate an argument, we need to understand what just what the argument in question is. We need to know what the premises and conclusion are and how the premises are supposed to support the conclusion.. Writing for an Academic . A. udience.. Hosted by. English Writing Center. www.uta.edu/owl. uta-wci@uta.edu. A Division of the Department of English. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts . www.uta.edu/owl. Conductive Arguments and. Counterconsiderations. Chapter 12. Conductive arguments were defined and developed by philosophy Carl Wellman. . In order to understand conductive arguments, it is useful to think back to the convergent support patters defined in chapter two like figure 2.12 to the right. Included we also have figure 12.1 to the right where there are more convergent reasons to the same conclusion.. An Introduction to. Inductive Arguments. Chapter 9. Induction is the basis for our commonsense beliefs about the world. . In the most general sense, . inductive reasoning. , is that in which we extrapolate from experiences to what we have not yet experiences. . Abson P. Joseph, Ph.D.. Associate Professor of NT. Indiana Wesleyan University. . Introductory Matters. Critical Reasoning & Engagement . Constructing an Argument. Writing an Essay. Assessing an Argument. Chapter 2. An argument is the fundamental building block of persuasion.. Chapter 2. Definition—. An argument is a collection of statements organized in a way that highlights connections between those ideas to demonstrate that because some of the statements in the collection are believed to be true, other statements in the collection should be accepted as true.. ANALYZING ARGUMENTS. Arguments can be analyzed, once recognized, by paraphrasing them or by . diagramming them. . . Paraphrasing . involves setting forth the argument in a clear and precise form. . Excercises. Chapter 4. A Strategy of Control. Chapter 4. What happens in a debate is the product of choices debaters make. Far too many debaters approach a debate round from a passive perspective, believing their responsibility is to merely track and respond to what happens in the round.. general function format. defaults. passing arguments. function scope. function prototyping. variable # of parameters. recursion. Modular programming. Hierarchical decomposition: . dividing problem into a number of functions, each performing a specific (single) task..