ENG 1100 Study Guide - Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, Horoscope, Causal Reasoning
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English 1100 fall 2013 thesis to argument: subject-verb agreement (393-4), parallelism (402), and mixed construction (418-19). You have come to a conclusion/thesis through narrowing the topic down, forming an opinion, and then doing some research to answer the question the thesis poses. Now you need to effectively match the conclusion to the reasons. Reasoning is the way we put claims and reasons together ( this" follow from this". Reasons are of two basic kinds: reasons as ideas supporting one another ( if this then that ), or the evidence or facts that support the claim There are different kinds of reasoning or arguments: deductive, inductive, and causal: deductive arguments, deduction proceed from general to specific. It often begins with definition, accepted facts, or principles and then applies these to specific instances: the logical syllogism: if whales are mammals, they have lungs. Therefore whales have lungs: deduction produces truths that are necessarily true, but only if the premises are true.
