Global Perspectives weektask 6 chapter 2

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Weektask 6 + 7

Slide 1 - Diapositive

In this weektask you'll 
  • look back at last week's theory to consolidate
  • learn to recognize a popular literary device and understand its effect
  • you know how to tell whether an argument is strong or not

Slide 2 - Diapositive

Looking back
1. Decoding: looking for (chains of) meaning
2.Active reading: decoding, asking questions and making judgements

Slide 3 - Diapositive


Lou Gehrig, a great Yankees baseball player who was diagnosed with ALS to die 2 years after delivered this most famous sports speech on 4 July 1939 in New York. 
"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
         "I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure I’m lucky."
         "Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure I’m lucky.

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When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies -- that’s something.
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter -- that’s something.
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body -- it’s a blessing.
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed -- that’s the finest I know.

So, I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for."

Slide 5 - Diapositive

This speech is filled with
A
rhetoric
B
arguments
C
descriptions
D
other

Slide 6 - Quiz

GP Weektask 6 + 7
Global Perspectives Chapter 2
Strong arguments

Slide 7 - Diapositive

A strong argument

To decide whether an argument is strong, look for


  1. Structure: Its reasons and conclusion will be related in such a way that if the reasons are true, the conclusion will likely be true.
  2. Content: The reasons will make claims that are true, or have a high probability of being true.
  3. Context: The argument as a whole fits the circumstances in which it was intended to apply.


Slide 8 - Diapositive

A little more on structure: 
In academic work you'll encounter long and complex arguments. If you want to find out whether they're strong or weak or somewhere in between:

  • Break them down into smaller arguments and decide if there are lines of arguments, how well they support each other and back up each aspect of the conclusion. Look for possible counter-arguments and how they are challenged.
  • Look for a the width of the inferential gap: the more assertions -unstated claims- need to be made to accept the conclusion, the weaker the argument.

Slide 9 - Diapositive

Let's look at an example of each
1 structure
2 contents
3 context

Slide 10 - Diapositive

1. Focus on structure

Consider argument (I):
If it's hot in Moscow, then it's unbearable in Lewiston.
It's hot in Moscow.
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Therefore, it's unbearable in Lewiston.






If A, then B.
A
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Therefore, B.

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2. Focus on contents

Form is okay, but....


 Evaluating the Content

Consider argument (II):
If Idaho is larger than California, then it is larger than Alaska.
Idaho is larger than California.
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Therefore, Idaho is larger than Alaska.

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3. Focus on context



It is important to remember that arguments are given in contexts, and if these don't fit together, then you need to evaluate the argument negatively.

Slide 13 - Diapositive

Graffiti is art
YES
NO
OTHER

Slide 14 - Sondage

Go to page 19 from your GP Book
Finish the activities 2.06, 2.07 and 2.08, write your answers in the following slides.

Slide 15 - Diapositive

Read page 19 --> 26 and type down your answers to activities
2.06
2.07
2.08

Slide 16 - Question ouverte

Add these important keywords you came across in you GP book -pages 19-26- to this slide and explain them in your own words. Feel free to this with a classmate of yours.
1. line of argument, 2. inferential gap, 3. assumption, 4. intermediate conclusion, 5. main conclusion, 6. primary evidence, 7. secondary evidence, 8. quantitative evidence, 9. qualitative evidence and 10. reliability.

Slide 17 - Question ouverte

Did you understand all the activities you had to complete? Do you need any help from me as a teacher?

Slide 18 - Question ouverte