USING THE TOULMIN MODEL IN YOUR ARGUMENTS

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CHAPTER 3

• USING THE TOULMIN MODEL IN YOUR ARGUMENTS

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WHAT IS TOULMIN MODEL FOR?

• MAKING A CLAIM THAT IS DEBATABLE
• PRESENTING GOOD DATA AND REASONS(GROUNDS AND
  EVIDENCE) TO SUPPORT THIS CLAIM.
• EXPLAINING THE WARRANT, OR UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS
  THAT CONNECT THE CLAIM AND DATA.
• QUALITIFYING THE CLAIM AS NECESSARY BY
  ACKNOWLEDGING.
• RESPONDING TO COUNTERARGUMENTS AND DRAWING
  CONCLUSION.

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CLAIM, DATA AND WARRANT
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THE TOULMIN MODEL OF ARGUMENT

• Argument begins with a claim viewpoint or
  thesis that you want reader to accept.
• To accomplish this goal, you must produce
  compelling data, the grounds or evidence.
• Next, you need to ask of any argument whether the
  data or grounds use to support the claim truly
  are valid gtlook for proper warrant.

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THE CLAIM

• TOULMIN CHOOSES TO CALL IT THE CLAIM BECAUSE THAT
  TERM SUGGESTS A THESIS OR ASSERTION THAT IS
  PARTICULARLY OPEN TO CHALLENGE.
• FOR AN ARGUMENT TO SUCCEED
• -must ensure that the claim offered is worthy of
  deliberation.
• -claims are no arguable
• -2 basic types of claims
• a)Objective
• b)Subjective

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THE CLAIM (cont)

• a)Objective claims
• -assert that something actually exist and present
  evidence that is demonstrably factual.
• b)Subjective claims
• -assert that something should exist and present
  evidence derived from ethical, moral or aesthetic
  convictions.

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THE DATA

• Suggest hard facts results from experiments,
  statistic from surveys, as well as historical,
  legal and biographical fact.
• Data or grounds must be presented as accurately
  and as unambiguously.

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THE WARRANT

• A warrant is the assurance that the evidence
  brought in to support the claim is completely
  reliable and it rests on sound principle of
  value.
• There are 3 kinds of warrant
• -logical or scientific warrants
• -ethical or forensic based warrants
• -emotional or artistic based warrants

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CHAPTER SUMMARY

• The Toulmin model of argument is valuable because
  it emphasize careful reasoning without the
  constraints of formal logic,the subject matter
  being too filled with probabilities to be
  resolved by logic.It also tied to the reality of
  social interaction particularly of legal courts.
  This mode of arguments recognize that the claim
  whether objective or subjective, must be
  supported by data which in turn must rest on a
  warrant.