Chapter Exercises

This activity contains 20 questions.

Establishing credibility involves what?

citing authorities on the subject who support your point wholeheartedly.arguing that an event is absolutely true.making the reader see that "everyone believes this, so you should too."coming across as honest, knowledgeable, and fair.

Logical appeals involve what?

pride, sympathy, and other feelings based on valuesfactual evidence collected from data and events inflated opinions and exaggerated factsappeals to the audience's impressions about the person making the argument

An appeal to emotions involves what?

generalized ideas that form a coherent wholedistorting evidence so as to make your claims seem more credibleappeals to the audience's sympathy and feelings library research, especially quotes from experts in the field

What are effective ways to establish common ground?

to build consensus by showing the audience beliefs you have in common to discuss only those points that support your argumentto include a number of quotes by noted experts to remind readers of the importance of your topicto show the audience that those who disagree with you are stupid and untrustworthy

Support for an argument is what?

the assertion or thesisthe underlying assumptions in an argumentmaterial or evidence used to convince the audience facts the argument is trying to prove

What are warrants?

material or evidence used to convince the audiencea system developed by Stephen Toulminunderlying assumptions or principles in an argument values in an argument

Which of the following is not considered evidence for argumentative essays?

facts statistics authorities opinions

Argumentative thesis statements should ________.

be a factbe a simple sentencebe arguable and debatable be a question

Which of the following is not a way to handle objections in an argument essay?

turn the objection into an advantagerefute the objectionignore the objectionconcede an objection

When you concede a point, you are ________.

at least partially agreeing with itignoring itrefuting the objectionarguing poorly

When you prove that an objection is weak, you are________.

losing the argumentturning the objection into an advantageconceding the pointrefuting the point

To persuade readers who probably do not agree with you, you should organize your paper ________.

chronologically from least to most important spatially from most to least important

What should an argumentative thesis contain?

a comparison of the subject and your opinion on the subject background information all the opposing view points your subject and your opinion on the subject

Argumentative thesis statements must ________.

use strong language so the reader understands how you feel about your subject take a position for or against something, which is your opinion on your subject always be located directly after the introduction be vague when taking a position so the reader does not become angry

The main point of the essay is the ________.

paragraphsubpointbodythesis

What is the following thesis statement missing?
Pregnant women should increase their iron intake to avoid becoming anemic.

a subject an opinion a limited subject none of the above

The statement "No single method is best for organizing all arguments," is _________.

truefalsenot applicable

The essential elements of the Toulmin model for argument are __________.

justification and statisticscommon ground, examples, and concessionsproofs, concessions, and refutationsthe claim, the support, and the warrants

Rogerian argument,

is one that interests you is effective only if the essay topic is controversial.is effective only when your readers agree with you.an approach that seeks common ground between points of view, might be an effective context for reaching readers when you’re quite certain they’ll disagree with you.

Which of the following is not a technique for handling opposing arguments?

Explain the negative consequences of the opposing position.Concede an opposing point, but explain that doing so doesn't destroy your own argument.Demonstrate that an opposing argument depends on emotion rather than reasoning.Ignore opposing arguments.

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