RWS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rhetorical Situation, Without Evidence, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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In your rhetorical analyses, you will use specific terms and concepts. To help you remember these terms, remember the acronym paces. This stands for project premise argument claims evidence strategies. Premise: a premise is an implicit assumption that the argument relies upon. There is a strong tendency to accept the conclusion without scrutinizing the missing premise on which the argument rests. If you can spot the premise within an argument, you are in a better position to scrutinize its validity. Argument: socrates is mortal because he is a human: claim: socrates is mortal, reason: socrates is a human, premise: all humans are mortal. Argument: he is an american citizen, so he is entitled to due process: claim: he is entitled to due process, reason: he is an american citizen, premise: all american citizens are entitled to due process. Argument: the gun has the defendant"s fingerprints on the trigger.
