HW 1/30

pg. 408-412

• if all of us band together then we can do anything
• teenagers and adultescents have to stick together
• college is becoming harder to afford and many people have to take out loans
• Yale is helping its students by giving money to those who can’t afford the tuition
• Yale demonstrates how protests can make little ripples in the school
• student movements can make a difference by helping change things on campus
• the committees are turning around and are not helping with student aid, with $15 billion in cuts and fees
• a vocal activist campaign about student loans dangers could accomplish a lot and change everything
• standing up for world peace is admirable but social safety net is causing fighting in the world and making it worse
• in other countries, public colleges are a lot cheaper and maybe even free.
• Canadas tuition is growing as well
• if they changed the formulas for expected parental contributions, 50000 more students are eligible for financial aid
• money is spent differently based on where its going
• students are standing together to address voters on the economic issues 18-24 year olds have to deal with and how to change it
• people from the VA21 collected 200000 pennies and trucked them to the state capital in support of the one-cent sales tax for education

pg. 39 -49

• The Toulmin method = claim, reasons, and evidence
  • all the reasons and evidence in the world will not make an argument convincing if all readers don’t except the beliefs or assumptions.
  • warrant = a belief
  • writers usually leave warrants unstated because they assume their readers share their core beliefs
  • his method helps critical readers detect other weaknesses in an argument
  • a qualifier limits the claim
  • a rebuttal is a statement that shows how the writer anticipated counterarguments and diffused them by showing their flaws
  • six methods of Toulmin: claims, reasons, evidence, warrants, qualifiers, and rebuttals

• lets be blunt: its time to end the drug war
  • prohibition is an example of negative consequences
    • this was shown as an example of 4/20
  • freedom of contract has been abridged in the name of keeping us safe from such things as drug

• a step by step demonstration of the Toulmin Method
  • analyzing the claim
    • identify the claim
    • look for qualifiers and exceptions
  • analyzing the reasons and evidence
    • state the reasons
    • find the evidence
    • examine the evidence
  • examining the warrants = unstated beliefs or principles that connect a reason to a claim
  • noting rebuttals
    • final step which anticipates counterarguments
  • summarizing your analysis
    • brief assessment
    • logic of the argument, strengths and weaknesses

a final not about logical analysis

• no method is perfect
• uniform results are not desirable