Download POSITION PAPER ABOUT THE PANDEMIC and more High school final essays English in PDF only on Docsity! POSITION PAPER • Argumentation- study of communication the purpose of which is to persuade others with the judicious use of sound reasoning. • - involves presenting arguments that are valid and logical. • - analyse other people’s arguments more effectively b. Claim of cause what are the causes? what are the effects? Youth organizations are powerful catalysts of change in the country. The refusal of the government to halt the influx of Chinese nationals from Wuhan, China escalated the spread of Covid 19 in the Philippines. c. Claims of value - is it good or bad? - what are the criteria that I can use to evaluate its merits and demerits? Using biofuel is one of the most practical solutions to air pollutions in the country. Opening the Bataan Nuclear power plant will provide a great source of energy in the Philippines. d. Claims of Policy -what should we do? - how can we solve the problem? Companies should reduce the production of goods that are difficult to recycle. The government should stop the implementation of the Four Ps Program. 3. Warrant – connects the data and the claim - presuppositions, commonly accepted beliefs or truths or cultural values -unstated assumptions which the arguer hopes is shared by the reader. These are the data/facts that will substantiate your reasons/evidences Things to consider: 1. Necessity -is it something that we can not live without, is the society demanding it 2.Practicality -whether the motion or solution being proposed would cause too much or takes too much trouble to do that we would be beter off by not implementing it altogether 3. Beneficiality • One potent way of fortifying your stand is by anticipating the criticism of your argument [ counter claim] and then refuting it. • In presenting your arguments, you must be careful not to include fallacies. • A fallacy is an error in reasoning and this usually happens when our faulty asumptions taint our line of reasoning. 3. Hasty generalization – the arguer jumps to conclusion based on insufficient Making the conclusion that all fraternities have a culture of violence based on recent news report. 4. Red herring- the arguer tries to change the subject by presenting an irrelevant topic to the one under discussion in order to divert attention from the original discussion • 4. Non sequitur-[ it does not follow] this occurs when the conclusion does not follow logically from the previous explanation or statement • The weather was so hot yesterday. I went to class and lectures. • 5.Slippery slope- the arguer claims that one thing will inevitably lead to another and that there is no stopping the process. A person who starts smoking marijuana will inevitably moved on to crysta meth then to coccaine then to shabu then … 6. Either or argument –an arguer reduces the choices to only two, other possibilies are not discussed, If you do not approve of the Anti-Terrorism Law, then you are a terrorist.
