ENGL-1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Status Quo, Stephen Toulmin
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Figure #, brief description, source (in smaller text size, 9) Always view feedback both in-text and comments, includes rubric and notes. Ideas aren"t the problems it"s normally organization. Grounds: reason or evidence for your position. Warrants: underlying assumption connecting your claims and grounds. Qualifications: bring counterargument back to your claim. Higher a topic is on the controversy scale better this method is hard to talk about topics. Statement of common ground: though we disagree, we have all these in common. Contexts: important things that go into your claim. Writing about standardized tests and college admissions (apply to each of the above models) Standardized tests test how well you test, not how well you learn. Controversial because it is affecting people"s lives. Does all of toulmin and rogerian without having to pick and choose. Incorporates all aspects of both models: status quo, destabilizing thesis, cost, thesis.