Week 7 Quiz

Four illustrative sentences about the dining hall are offered as the opening of an argument. Which one is an arguable claim?

Select one.

• The dining hall closes at eight.
• Dining hall hours.
• The dining hall should stay open until ten on class nights, because students with evening labs miss dinner.
• Taco night is the best night at the dining hall.

In the running draft's argument map, which Toulmin part is "a college should adopt a low-cost practice whose benefit lands on the students who most need it"?

Select one.

• The grounds
• The warrant
• The qualifier
• The rebuttal

Toulmin's model names six parts. Which four does this course key?

Select one.

• Claim, grounds, warrant, and rebuttal
• Claim, grounds, backing, and qualifier
• Claim, evidence, qualifier, and counterargument
• Ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos

The running draft's body paragraph reports that research on schools that banned phones found the gain in exam results concentrated among the lowest-achieving students. In the argument map, what is that finding?

Select one.

• The warrant
• The claim
• The backing
• Grounds

Which phrase in the running draft's working thesis works as a qualifier?

Select one.

• "because the benefit falls hardest on the students who struggle most"
• "the cost to everyone else is small"
• "by default"
• "Our college should make"

True or false: stating the strongest objection to your own claim weakens your argument, so a careful writer leaves it out.

True or false.

• True
• False

Which fallacy does this illustrative sentence commit? "Either the library stays open until midnight or students will fail their exams."

Select one.

• Slippery slope
• False dilemma
• Hasty generalization
• Post hoc

Which illustrative sentence describes one real consequence rather than a slippery slope?

Select one.

• If the last shuttle leaves at nine, students whose lab ends at ten will need another way home.
• If the dining hall stays open until ten, soon it will be open all night, and then no one will sleep.
• If one club gets a later room booking, every club will demand one, and the library will never close.
• If the gym opens at five, next it will open at four, then three, until the staff quits.

A writer is answering a counterargument fairly. Select every move that belongs in a fair answer.

Select every option that applies.

• State the objection in words its own holders would accept
• Restate the objection in its weakest form so it is easy to beat
• Grant the part of the objection that is right
• Answer the rest of the objection with a reason
• Point out that the people raising the objection are often late to meetings

The running draft's working thesis becomes the starting point of its Toulmin map. Which part of the map is the thesis?

Select one.

• The warrant, because it links the evidence to the policy
• The grounds, because it gives two reasons
• The backing, because it supports the warrant
• The claim, carried with its qualifiers

A student is drafting an argument about a free campus shuttle. Which illustrative sentence passes the two-part test, arguable and specific?

Select one.

• A free campus shuttle has pros and cons.
• The free campus shuttle.
• The college should add a free late-evening shuttle from the library to the main parking lots, because students who study after dark now walk unlit paths.
• Should the college run a free shuttle?