5.7 Academic Arguments: End-of-Chapter Exercises
[1]End-of-Chapter Exercises
- Plato wrote an analogy that discusses the core concept that was discussed in 5.1 “Argument: How to Be Wrong.” Read “The Allegory of the Cave” which is Book VII of Plato’s The Republic and discuss with a peer what Plato was trying to examine/explain in this analogy and what some of the warnings he gave were.
- Find an example of a piece of writing that appears to want to be persuasive, but doesn’t get the job done. Write a brief review and share it with classmates.[2]
- Enter a topic into a general subscription database that has both scholarly and non-scholarly sources; browse the first few hits and classify each one as scholarly or not-scholarly. Look at the structure of the piece to make your determination.
- 5.7 (except where otherwise noted) was borrowed with minor edits and additions from Writing in College by Amy Guptill which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License ↵
- borrowed from Critical Thinking by Andrew Gurevich is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ↵
