Argument Assessment

What four elements does a good argumentative essay need? (Select four)

• Claim

• Reasons

• Evidence

• Counterclaim

• Dialogue

A claim supported by reasons and evidence

• suggestion

• soultion

• argument

The part of an argument that state's the author's point of view is called the

• claim

• counterclaim

• opinion

• objective viewpoint

Your claim must be "debatable."

• True

• False

The part of the argument that supports the claim with facts, statistics, expert opinions, and logical reasons is called what?

• support

• evidence

• data

• logos

The proper term for the part of the argument that opposes the claim is called

• opposing argument

• rebuttal

• warrant

• counterclaim

Which of the following can be used to support the claim?

• reasons

• examples

• evidence

• all of the above

Billy - "An apple is a vegetable."  Bobby - "Don't listen to Billy; he failed Spanish class last year. "

• Ad hominem

• Categorical Claim

• Exaggeration

• Stereotyping

Why is this a logical fallacy: 
"Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that."

• It is showing Senator Jones is an authority on submarines.

• Submarines are popular.

• It changes the argument to something else. 

• It stereotypes submarines.

Why is this a logical fallacy? "All elephants are big. Some boys are big. Therefore some boys are elephants."

• It says A is true and B is true so A+B must be true.

• It oversimplifies.

• It only gives two choices to a larger problem.

• It says the two things always happen together.