Graded Answers
What is the purpose of analysis?
To find the speaker's meaning.
What is the very first step of analysis?
Find the speaker's conclusion and premises.
Claim means
The statement the maker of the argument is seeking to show is true or probably true, the conclusion.
Claim can also be used to refer both ________ and ________.
Premises; Conclusions.
*The text refers to claim as the conclusion only*
Argument
Combination of a person's claim and the reason or reasons a person presents in support of that claim.
An argument is?
Two or more declarative statements, at least one of which serves as evidence to support the truth or
probable truth of the other.
An argument is two or more _________ statements.
Declarative
One declarative statement must serve as evidence to support the _______ of the other.
Truth
The statements that provides the evidence is called the ________.
reason/premise
The claim that is supported by evidence is called the ______.
Conclusion
Example of conclusion and reason
I won't pass this course (conclusion) because I haven't studied (reason).
The term because signals the what?
reason/premises
What is facts, data, examples?
The term therefore signals what?
conclusions
What is the point the speaker is trying to make?