ENGL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Original Six, Straw Man, Stephen Toulmin
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Chapter 7 notes structuring arguments: there is no right way to structure an argument, there are some specific models that we teach because they have been proven to work. That doesn"t make the class list comprehensive or restrictive: classical oration, rogerian/invitational arguments, toulmin arguments. Learning existing templates means you are in a better position to decide how to customize and tweak these models to better suit the specific argument you are making (i. e. learn the rules before you break them) Inductive presents specific examples, then draws a general conclusion from this data: deductive presents a general principle (sometimes called the major premise ), then applies the principle to specific examples (also called the minor premise ) In day-to-day, we often skip middles steps in logic. When you are building an academic argument, do all the steps. Classical oration: original 6 part latin form, exordium, narratio, partitio, confirmatio, refutatio, peroratio.
