Exercise 4
1. Make a Rationale Reasoning map
representing the argument in the following text:
Everyone should eat breakfast. It is
the most important meal of the day, since it provides you with the energy that
the body needs to start the day well. But sometimes you're not hungry at
breakfast, however it's nonetheless good for you even when you're not hungry.
Drag and drop sections
of the above text onto the workspace to proceed. This works with any version of
Rationale.
Hints
- Refine all your claims by making them fully fleshed out, unambiguous
declarative sentences
- Look for indicator words that reveal whether claims are positions,
reasons, or objections
- When you don't have indicators to give you clues, you'll need to work
out the argument's logical structure by thinking about which claims give
support to, or undermine, other claims, and which claim expresses the
argumentative position (the main point at stake)
- If you have trouble working out where to locate a reason, ask yourself:
does this reason offer direct support for the position, or does it support
some other claim?
2. Check your work against the
model.
Set 5 - Locating arguments in prose • Example • Exercise 1 • Exercise 2 • Exercise 3 • Exercise 4 • Final
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