September 15th Class Notes.

Today, Mr. Lazarow began class with the Power Point on the Toulmin Model of Arguement. We first started talking about Examples. Examples come in 3 kinds of forms; Real World Examples, Hypothedical examples, and personal experiences. We then went on to talk about "True" facts. He said that evidence is based on assumptions, so therefore, can it be entirely true? Luckily the Toulmin model says that nothing has to be 100% accurate. We then proceded to Grounds, the evidence to support a claim.

This brought us to the WARRENT. a warrent is a way to link the grounds to the claim. The warrent is also not written it is implicit or unstated. The warrent is also a way to establish "trust" or common ground from the author to the audience. He told us that there are 6 main strategies for warrents, Generalizations, Analogies, Signs, Casuality, Authority, and Principle, or GASCAP.

We ended class on Casuality and I presume we will pick up with the Power Point on Authority tomorrow.
Courtesy of Mike Rudolph