-- 10.1 -- Argument; PSR Strategies

-- W 10.1 -- TFY C9 Argument; CRCB C9 PSR (Preview, Study-Read, Review) Strategies
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TFY Chapter Nine Argument

The skills of analyzing and writing arguments require some knowledge of every chapter concept studied this far.   At this point you will be asked to integrate this learning while reviewing the structure of arguments and standards for judging arguments.  Exercises in this chapter entail guidelines for analyzing arguments, distinguishing arguments from reports, separating reasons from conclusions, recognizing missing and false information.  Writing applications challenge you to put all this knowledge together in a short persuasive argument.  You will also begin your preparations for writing a final research paper.  Final reading selections present different arguments on the issue of job outsourcing.

Chapter 9
Argument	An argument offers reasons to support a conclusion with the intent to persuade.
Conclusion	A clear statement of what an argument intends to prove or has proven.
Consistency	Consistency refers to standards of logical coherence as well as constancy.
Contradiction	A contradiction refers to a part or parts inconsistent with, or illogical to, other parts.
Debate question	A debate question is a neutrally stated question designed to provide a focus for pro and con positions on an issue.
Discrepancy	A discrepancy, like an incongruity, is something that diverges from an expected standard.
False Information	False information refers to information that can be proven to be untrue.
Implied conclusion	A conclusion understood but not explicitly stated.
Infer	To use imagination and reasoning to fill in missing facts. To connect the dots.
Irreconcilable	Irreconcilable are conflicting ideas, beliefs, or information that cannot coexist, such as contradictions.
Issue	An issue is a matter of dispute.
Missing Information	Missing information refers to essential information purposefully or inadvertently omitted from an argument or report.
Opinion	Opinion is a word used to include an unsupported belief, a supported argument, an expert’s judgment, prevailing public sentiment, and a formal statement by a court.
Principal claim and reasons	These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something.
Reason	A statement offered to explain, justify, or support the conclusion.
Report	A report offers objective accounts of events and objective information.
Thinking	Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering.
Topic	A topic is a subject that is written or spoken about.

Argument Topics