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Hopefully your Analysis map looked like this:

VitaChaff model answer

 

The hidden assumption was 'wheat germ is good for you'.  Looking for key words that only appear once in the other boxes helps us to see this: 'good for you' is in the position but not in the main claim, and 'wheat germ' is in the main claim but not in the position.

This isn't right:

Wrong way to map vita chaff

It isn't right because it doesn't show the two lower level claims working together as part of one reason.



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