COMM 131 Lecture 4: Notes Part 4

• School: CSULB
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 131
• Professor: Nick Russell

Document Summary

3 basic parts of an argument according to toulmin: (know these for the exam: claim: idea or action for which you seek adherence; your main point , grounds/data/support: provides the primary source of support; evidence; shows that support is available for my claim; includes stats, testimony, values, and credibility, warrant: provides the reasoning/logic that justifies the evidence to support the claim, qualifier statement that modifies the force of the argument. Includes words like certainly, possible, probably, for the most part, usually, always, in this instance : reservation: describes cases under which the claim does not hold true, rebuttal: describes the basis on which the claim will be questions by decision makers, backing: any support )instances, stats) that provides more specific data for the grounds or the warrant. Substantive warrants: cause (cause to effect and effect to cause, sign, generalization, parallel case, analogy, classification.