Argument Analysis

For this post, examine an argument from a text of your choice and try your best to break the argument into its component parts based on the reading from Marteney and Cooper and Patton. This means you will need to identify the claim (conclusion), the premises (grounds/backing, reasons and evidence), and any hidden assumptions (warrants). After you have identified these parts, answer the following: how did analyzing the argument in this way affect your understanding of the author or speaker’s claims? How might this skill benefit you in other situations?

Choose one of the articles from this week’s NARAs or another text of your choice, but it should be a persuasive text, and the section you analyze should be at least a few sentences long but not longer than a few paragraphs.

Be sure to quote the section you are analyzing and provide citation information for the source. If your quoted material is lengthy (more than 100 words), be sure to take that into account with the total word count of your post. In other words, if your post includes 100 words of quotations, you should exceed the minimum word count.

As long as it is 300 words without counting the quotes, it is fine.