Today in class we further discussed the prewriting technique of the Toulmin Sentence. We reviewed the answer to the sentence we were supposed to write for homework:
Because there is a high rate of serious injury in accidents when seatbelts are not worn, therefore people should typically wear seatbelts, since serious injury should be avoided, because injury is costly, painful, and dangerous. However seatbelts shouldn't be worn in certain cases when they are dangerous like on small children. Even though ther is a high rate of serious injury when they are worn, there is an even greater risk when they aren't worn.
We went over the fact that there always must be a counter argument that follows the rebuttal. Otherwise, the rebuttal may be questioned and turn into its own claim. We also went over a few other examples when all of the information was given to us including the claim, grounds, warrant, backing, etc... Tonight for homework though, we have to write three Toulmin sentences when only the claim is given:
1. Claim: Students who work hard in school do better in college.
2. Claim: Faux news programs (e.g. "The Daily Show") are a (great/negative) addition to television.
3. Claim: The US should (get out of/stay in) Iraq.
Make sure in the Toulmin Sentence that you include the claim, grounds, warrant, backing, qualifier, reservation, rebuttal, and counterargument. The other homework assignment is still the vocabulary exercises, which will be due on Monday. We will also go over them on Monday.
--Alexis
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