ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rogerian Argument, Stephen Toulmin, Thesis Statement

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Jeanie Warnock

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Common ground-sets forward background and acknowledges disagreement. Arguments comprise 3 main elements: claim, support, warrant(s) (or assumptions that are often only implied rather than stated) How to evaluate arguments: identify and critically assess warrants and/or unstated assumptions and beliefs. Example: cats are better pets than dogs because they are quieter, cleaner, and less trouble to look after. Defi(cid:374)e (cid:862)(cid:271)ette(cid:396):(cid:863) cats a(cid:396)e (cid:271)ette(cid:396) pets fo(cid:396) people (cid:449)ho a(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot ho(cid:373)e a lot (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause : assess inductive and deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning. Reach a conclusion based on a series of premises called a syllogism: assess use of appeals to emotions and values. Attacks on the person rather than the issue. 3 levels of response: read for the literal content (on the lines)-summarize, preview, read closely, annotating and underlining, summarize argument or central purpose. To summarize the information in an article focus on. *repetition of key words or phrase (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:455) the autho(cid:396)(cid:859)s pu(cid:396)pose, di(cid:396)e(cid:272)tio(cid:374), p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iple points.