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Question 1 Which of the following statements is an arguable claim?…
Question 1
Which of the following statements is an arguable claim?
A) Colleges should provide better mental health support services to their students, include students who are fully online.
B) Depression is the worst.
C) Students across the nation have experienced significant spikes in depression and anxiety levels since the start of the pandemic.
Question 2
The following is an excerpt from the sample argumentative essay “On Buying Local” (pages 523-628 in our textbook). What kind of appeal does this excerpts exemplify? (For more on different types of appeal, see Chapter 8.)
“Buying local, for example, would reduce the high cost of fuel and energy used to transport food across the world and would bring long-term benefits as well. It is currently estimated that most produce in the United States is shipped about 1,500 miles before it is soldit travels about the distance from Nebraska to New York” (p. 525).
A) Emotional
B) Ethical
C) Logical
Question 3
Chapter 8 describes different types of appeal: emotional, ethical, and logical (aka pathos, ethos, and logos). While emotional appeals can be very effective, academic writing tends to rely on logical appeals the most. The chapter describes a few examples of different types of evidence used in logical appeals: facts and statistics, data from surveys and questionnaires, direct observations, interviews, testimony, experiments, personal experience, etc. The following excerpt comes from the sample argumentative essay, “On Buying Local” (pages 523-628 in our textbook). This excerpt exemplifies which type of evidence?
“Since I was four years old, I have spent every summer on a 150-acre farm in rural Wisconsin, where my family has rented our 75 tillable acres to a farmer who lives nearby. <...> He told us that all the farms in that region used to milk about 30 head of cattle each. Now he and the other farmers were selling their herds to industrial-scale farms milking 4,000 head each” (p.523).
A) Interviews
B) Visuals
C) Statistics
D) Anecdotes / personal experience
Question 4
Chapter 8 describes a few different ways of structuring arguments (see pages 138-142 in our textbook). Which of the following are good ways to organize your argument, according to the chapter?
A) You can hint at the claim in the introduction but present the actual argument later on, after you’ve established all the supporting evidence
B) None of the answers are correct
C) You can start off with the claim right away and then elaborate on the support for it
D) You can begin with stating what others have said about the topic and then presenting your claim as a response to those statements.
E) All of the answers are correct
Question 5
Read the assignment prompt for Writing Project #3: Research-Based Argument and think of at least one question to ask your instructor about it. Write down your question(s) in the space below.
