Understanding Argumentation

An argument can also be called (check all that apply)

• an opinion

• a claim

• a thesis

• an assertion

Which appeal are you using if you apply logic?

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• Migos

Which appeal uses someone's credibility to strengthen their argument?

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• fidos

Which appeal are you using if you use emotions to try and convince someone?

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• tacos

We listened to an interview with law professor Catherine Ross who discussed the context and impact of the Tinker v. Des Moines case. We might be more likely to believe that she is an expert and trust her opinion. Which appeal would apply in this situation?

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• locos

If I use numbers and statistics to support my assertion, which appeal am I using?

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• chronos

True or False? Evidence and reasoning are the same thing.

• True

• False

Both reasoning and evidence help support an argument. Reasoning is more ____________ while evidence is more ___________.

• specific; general

• general; specific

Which sentence best states the central argument of the majority opinion?

• Despite the fact that the black armbands caused a general disorder in the school, the student protest is nonetheless protected by the constitutional right of freedom of expression.

• Because the students are not yet adults, their rights to the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression are necessarily limited.

• Because the wearing of the black armbands was not genuinely disruptive, the student protest is protected by the constitutional right of freedom of expression.

• Although the school authorities feared how the student protest might affect their school, the right of students to protest is always guaranteed by the Constitution.

Which two quotations from the passage directly support the central argument of the majority opinion?

• "The problem posed by the present case does not relate to regulation of the length of skirts or the type of clothing, to hair style or deportment."

• "There is here no evidence whatever of petitioners' interference, actual or nascent, with the schools' work or of collision with the rights of other students to be secure and to be let alone."

• "...undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression."

• "...the action of the school authorities appears to have been based upon an urgent wish to avoid the controversy which might result from the expression..."

• "It is revealing, in this respect, that the meeting at which the school principals decided to issue the contested regulation was called in response to a student's statement to the journalism teacher in one of the schools that he wanted to write an article on Vietnam and have it published in the school paper."