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Assignment

Practice Exercise 2.5.1

  1. Choose an argument you are reading for class or one of our suggested readings. You may want to focus on a short excerpt of one or more paragraphs.
  2. Read your text closely and identify any reasons given to support the main claim and any reasons for those reasons. 
  3. Then map out the author's reasons as in the examples above. Describe each reason in your own words. You can handwrite your map or copy this Google Drawings template and insert the reasons. Later, you will add other elements of the argument to the map.