Dressing an Argument

Week 4 - Due Sunday, February 28th at 11:59 PM
Writing Workshop II
Updates from Week 3
Task 1: Examples 
Directions: Find two to three relevant examples to support each of the following generalizations. You may have to do a little research to find good examples in some cases. Please respond in complete sentences. 
1. All birds can fly. Eagles can fly. Crows can fly. Hummingbirds can fly. 
2. Developed, democratic countries no longer practice capital punishment. The Philippines has abolished the death penalty.United Kingdom has abolished death penalty. France has removed death penalty. 
Task 2: CounterexamplesDirections: Find a counterexample to each of the generalizations below. Please respond in complete sentences. 
1. Salads are made of vegetables. Caesar salad uses egg as an ingredient. Chicken cucumber avocado salad has chicken.Dessert salads are not usualy made from vegetables. 
2. All birds can fly. Dodos cannot fly. Turkeys are all land animals.Penguins can swim, but cannot fly. 
Task 3: Evaluating Arguments for Generalizations
Directions: Evaluate how well each of the following arguments follows rules 7-11. Be sure to refer to each rule explicitly in your response. 
1. “Themistocles was a virtuous man, and though he taught his son many things, he could not teach his son to be virtuous. Likewise, Aristides was a virtuous man, but his son was not, even though Aristides had his son trained in many things. Pericles, too, was a virtuous man whose son was not virtuous. Thucydides, another virtuous man, had two sons, to whom he gave a good education, but he did not succeed in making them virtuous. So, we can see that even a good man cannot teach his children to be virtuous.” –adapted from Plato, MenoThe argument is well-crafted. It utilizes a reliable premise, is concrete and concise, and utilizes consistent terms such as ‘virtuous’ and ‘education’.
2. “599 undergraduate students at NYU were asked how much money they had borrowed in student loans during the previous academic year. When we compared those results to the university’s financial aid records, we found that only 228 of the students had answered within $1,000 of the actual amount they had borrowed. Therefore, most American college students do not know how much money they are borrowing to pay for college.” –adapted from E. Akers and M. Chingos, “Are College Students Borrowing Blindly?” Brookings InstitutionThe argument is very well crafted. It is concrete and concise, utilizes reliable premises (i.e., survey results), no use of overtones, and uses consistent terms like “student loans” and “money”.
Task 4: Creating your own argument by example
Directions: Compose a dressed argument by example about the topic you are considering for your research paper. 
Unplanned teenage pregnancy rates are higher with less education. This is exemplified in the lower income areas in the United States where educational attainment is not that high. 
Task 5: Similarities
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