Study Exercise for Argument

Working with this will help you to learn to recognize the various key terms in analyzing an argument. The exercise will work best if you will print off this page, fill it out for each piece of discourse you examine, and then share your results with others to see how close you came to their versions.

Thesis of the strategic discourse: ___________________________________________________

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Two issues addressed in the discourse:

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Select a claim made in the discourse: ________________________________________________

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Select the support for the claim: ____________________________________________________

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If this claim is an identifiable form of argument, what form is it? __________________________

On the back of this form, evaluate the support for the claim. Evaluate it both as evidence and for its warranting strength.