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In Set 2 we'll give you a set of claim boxes like these:

Beach boxes

We'll also give you a template that shows the pattern of reasoning, like this one:

Map Template

Your job is to use the claim boxes to build an argument matching the template.

To do that, you'll need to work out what kind of claim each box contains (position, reason, or objection) and where each claim belongs in the logical structure of that argument.

These claims fit into that structure in this way:

Beach example map

Here's how we arrived at this map.

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