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Argument Review in Context
Claims, Reasons, Evidence, Warrants, Acknowledgements/ResponsesTo date weve covered quite a bit of information on the structure of argument in the context of
news media. There are a number of points that weve covered under each topic, and thispacket should help to organize those points.
First, before writing your introduction with, of course, a status quo, destabilizing condition andonsequences!, there are a few questions that should be asked "you could write these
questions down for each paper you write and try to answer them, because theyll provide the
focus for your paper#
.! %hat do you think& ' ()*+
-.! %hy do you think that& ' /*0120
.! 4ow do you know thats true& ' /5+6/2(/7.! %hy do the reasons8evidence support the claim& ' %**2T0
9.! %hat about alternative views or contrary evidence& ' *(:21%)/6;//2T8/0
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music+ !ut now does nothin" of the sort.
7.! (laims of 6efinition# *rgue how something should be defined or categorized
#olitical rock should consider the relation of the musician to the music;$esame $treet should !e considered as educational in the traditional
sense; news media in the 2$ tends to fall either into pu!lic or
commercial cate"ories+ each with its own pros and cons.
For easons#
6o your reasons explain why you think the audience should accept your claim&6o they represent >udgments not shared by your audience i.e. are you already
preaching to the converted& +f so, wheres the argument&!
6o your reasons rest on evidence& emember, reasons exist in our heads, while what the
easons are based on evidence! is out there in the world.ecall the reasons we saw in %hatever, 6ude and8or 2evermind# first they both
presented a kind of status quo with the kind of films8music we get today and our
esponses to them, made a claim about that status quo the destabilizing condition!, and
hen went on to show how something either could be or was once different, and T4/2howed evidence through either the analysis of 1ne=/yed ?acks or age *gainst the
achine and ;ang of Four.
For /vidence#
(ould it be looked up&+s the evidence not contestable at least for the time being!&
+s it comprised of representations of states of affairs that are treated as facts&
emember, reasons rest on evidence, while evidence rests on itself.
4ow closely do you need to match your readers expectations&4ow strongly will your readers resist your claim "will your evidence need to be stronger if
hey will be more resistant& *long with that, how fully do you expect your readers to
accept your claim&ecall
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he reason and8or claim.
Think of a warrant as that thing at the end of your reasons8evidence that links those
hings back to your claim "if its not obvious from the paragraph itself, a simple statementasserting this is necessary.
ecall 2ightline and how we were looking for some warrants to tie all the loose
evidenceC back to some claim@ or