POS 310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Active Listening, Intentionality, Wield
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The cooperative activity of developing and advancing arguments and of responding to. Be able to define argumentation. the arguments of others . Know the 4 types of propositions and the keywords which help in the phrasing of each. A claim advanced with a reason or reasons in its support . Proposition of fact: statements that report, describe, predict, or make causal claims. A claim that can potentially be verified as either true or false. May be predictive: making claims about the future. Proposition of value: statements that advance judgements about morality, beauty, merit, or wisdom. Advance sufficient evidence to support the factual claim. Clarify and interpret the evidence for the audience. Ensure that the evidence"s relevance to the claim is made clear. May compare the relative merit of two objects. Clarity the criteria of evaluation- the standards on which a value judgment is based. Set out evidence to show that the criteria of evaluation has been satisfied.
