PHI332 : The Class : Argument ID : Sample Quizzes

Topic 13: Sample Quizzes

You now have all the skills you need to take the quiz. The quiz will be one paragraph, taken from the text. You will diagram the argument in the paragraph, using all the skills you have learned.

Here are sample quizzes for you to practice. Remember, your answer does not have to look exactly like mine! Many decisions--about linking or independent premises, about how much of an example to combine into one box, about what is background information or restatement-have many possible answers that would be awarded full credit.

Grade your own work by looking at my answer (and cutting yourself some slack on the details!). If you correctly identify any inference in the paragraph, you will earn at least a D. If you correctly identify the conclusion of the paragraph, you will earn at least a C. If you have the major structure of the argument correct, you will earn at least a B. If you have done a defensible job handling the details of linking/independent premises, examples, background information and restatement, you will earn an A.

After you diagram each, check your work. The answer is in two parts. First I give you my marked text, then my diagram. If you are stuck, you can look at my marked text before you diagram.

To complete this topic successfully, do as many of the following exercises as you find necessary to acquire the relevant skill. You have acquired the relevant skill when your answers to exercises are reliably either the same as the given answers or are alternative answers you can explain and defend:

Go on to Module 3: Argument Identification in Essays
or
Go back to Argument ID

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