COMM 131 Lecture 2: Comm 131 Day 2 Notes

• School: CSULB
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 131
• Professor: Nick Russell

Document Summary

The communicative process of advancing, criticizing, and modifying claims to gain the informed adherence of decision makers. Key components: process- something with steps that can be repeated. Decision makers- those who are empowered to act on a claim. A claim is: that which we normally speak of as a conclusion, and the explicit appeal of the argument. A proposition is: the final or most general claim in an argument, and the statement you ask decision makers to accept or reject. 3 types of claims: fact- (to be) observe, evidence. An argument: is the individual units of argumentation, is the intersection of a claim and its support, and must contain at minimum these 2 elements. The function of debate is to provide a critical method for settling those differences that arise when people must decide between 2 mutually exclusive courses of action. Key components: critical method, mutually exclusive (cannot be done at the same time)