Week 11: Reading Response
For this week reading response we had to read both chapter 8 and 9 in the book, WIT. Chapter 8 discussed on certain topic such as talking about what a argument is, the purpose of an argument, featured purpose of arguments and criteria for effective arguments. In the words of Joseph Joubert, a eighteenth-century French essayist, stated, “The aim of argument...should not be victory, but progress.” This helps eliminates the myth that arguments is about winning, when in reality arguments used for academic writing is to help us to take a position of a particular issue, the evidence included for the argument and the way we structure and format the argument which will later be discussed in chapter 9. We are introduced to three featured purposes of arguments; casual, proposal and definitional. We are given the criteria that have to be met in order for us to construct an effective argument. Finally, on the chapter 8 were are left with ways to avoid logical fallacies which in terms mean to denote common flaws in reasoning that can often make arguments less effective or at times ineffective. On chapter 9 it discussed the questions we should ask ourselves in order to constructing arguments and the types of argument structures such as; Classical, Toulmin and Rogerian arguments.
With these new methods on how to frame and construct an argument I can apply this ability to my current assignment and major. For the group assignment I am in, we could follow the structure of the Toulmin argument with stating a claim, supporting with evidence, disccusing our warrant, backing up our warrant, qualify our circumstances and make our rebuttal all on the false of makeup advertising. With my major I can use Toulmin argument to help with research projects I have to do, because I can use the evidence i researched and collected to move my arguments forward in my lab reports.
This gif post is for me and everyone to realize that arguments are amusing to listen to and debate on. There is no winning in arguments and both sides can argue the differences of the topic and this will eventually lead to more arguments related to the topic in the future. So why not just sit back and listen to both sides of an argument while eating popcorn. Instead of this case the teacher always wins.