Chapter 12 summaries CRCB ENG 75

Chapter 12 summaries CRCB ENG 75
Here are some tips to help you identify an argument, Break your task into parts, you should first break the text into manageable chunks. With any luck there might be numbered sections that will make this easy. Be alive to argument indicators, you should look for 'conclusion indicators' such as 'so', 'therefore', 'hence' and so on. Similarly it will help you identify the author's premises if you look for reason indicators such as 'since', 'because' and 'for the reason that’. Read difficult passages aloud It might help to read a passage aloud. If you try to get the intonation where you think the author would, this might give you a clue to his meaning. Identify objections and rebuttals whilst offering reasons for his claims, the author may also be considering and rejecting objections to these claims. In addition to identifying the argument you should try to identify which objections are considered why these objections are objections the reasons for rejecting these objections. Make use of the principle of charity Refuse to believe that you have correctly identified the argument until you can see why the author thinks it is convincing. And only consider yourself to have identified an objection when you can see why it would be an objection. Reflect on the whole having analyzed the parts of a paper, you need to consider it as a whole. Evaluating arguments once you have set out the argument in the style of a logic book, you can start to evaluate it. An argument can only be good if its premises constitute a good reason to believe the conclusion. The argument will be even better; of course, if the premises are true, This means that in order to evaluate an argument you need to ask two questions: Does the author's conclusion follow from his premises? Do I accept the author's premises?