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Exercise 1

1. Make a Rationale Reasoning map representing the argument in the following text:

Capital punishment is wrong: innocent people are sometimes executed.  However, it deters crime.

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

Hints

• Look for indicators for clues about identifying whether claims are positions, reasons, or objections (there are two indicator words in this case)
• Check to see if you need to refine the claims
• Work out how the claims are arranged in the map: ask yourself, which claim does this reason support, or this objection undermine?

2. Check your work against the model.  

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