Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Classical Argument
327
Truth Seeking
"search for the best course of action or solution to a problem, taking into account all available information and alternative points of view"
Persuasion
the art of making a claim on an issue and justifying it convincingly in order to move an audience
"the best image for understanding argument is neither fight nor debate, but the deliberations of a committee"
Truth Seeking Process
Persuasive Product
Stages of Development
Personal Opinion
Structured Claim with Reasons
Increased Attention to Truth Seeking
Articulate unstated assumptions
Link argument to values and beliefs
of intended audience
Examples
Claim with reason: Women should be allowed to join combat unis because the image of women as combat soliders would help society overcome gender stereotyping
Underlying assumption: ?
2.) Cocaine and heroin should be legalized beacuse legalizing drugs will keep the government
out of people's private lives
Underlying assumption: ?
3.) The government should raise gasoline taxes because the higher prices would substantially
reduce gasoline consumption
Underlying assumption?
4.) The government is justified in detaining suspected terrorists indefinitely without
charging them with a crime because doing so may prevent another terrorist attack
Underlying assumption?
5.) The government should not should not raise gasoline taxes beacuse the higher
price would place undo hardship on low-income people
Underlying assumption?
Types of Evidence
Relevance
Accuracy
Typicality
Sufficiency
Argument
Factual Data
Statistics
Examples
Testimony
Subarguments
Summaries of Research
What is an Argument?
Definitions
Issue
Claim
Reason
Underlying Assumptions (Warrant)
"
and
out of yo
ME
Ass
u
"Assumptions make an
1.)