Question

• Step 1: Use the Toulmin Model to identify the main parts of your argument.
  • Argument on the use of text messaging for interpersonal communication
  • Apply the Toulmin Model to help you plan your argument paper. You may use it as a prewriting exercise to help you to develop your ideas and arguments for your position paper.

• Step 2: Write 2-3 sentences for each of the six prompts below:

1. Claim: write your claim, which will be supported by the rest of your paper.
2. Support: write 2-3 sub-claims you will develop in your paper. To help with this, write the word "because" after the claim, and list the reasons that support it. As you do this, you should also write down ideas for specific support for these sub-claims (such as examples, facts, opinions or visual images that come from your reading of the essays or from your own experience).
3. Warrants: decide whether or not to spell out the warrants in your paper or to leave them implicit so that the reading audience will have to infer them.
4. Backing: assume that your classmates are your audience, possibly reading drafts of your paper. In your judgment, will some of them require backing for any of your warrants because the audience will not agree with them otherwise? if so, how can you back these warrants?
5. Rebuttal: think about the competing and alternative positions others may hold on this issue, some of which you identified in your Exploratory paper in week 1. Detail your strategies for weakening these arguments.
6. Qualify: decide whether or not to qualify the claim in order to make it more convincing to your audience. Review one or more qualifiers that might work to help support your claim.

Answer 1