Exercise 5

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Exercise 5

1. Make a Rationale Reasoning map of the following argument:

You should wear a seatbelt in the car as seatbelt wearers are less likely to be injured in a crash since seatbelts prevent your body from being thrown around violently.

Drag and drop sections of the above text onto the workspace to proceed. This works with any version of Rationale.

Hints

There are TWO indicator words to identify here
Work out what kind of indicators they are: is what follows each a reason, objection, or position?
Put the claims in appropriately colored boxes
Work out how to arrange the boxes in your map, by asking yourself which claim a given reason provides evidence for

2. Check your work against the model.

Set 3 - Indicator words • 3 kinds of indicators • Example • Exercise 1 • Exercise 2 • Exercise 3 • Exercise 4 • Exercise 5 • Exercise 6 - Quiz • Final

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