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WorksheetsArgument Moves (Honors)
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
How confident do you feel about your ability to IDENTIFY argument moves?
Roni Manor built an argument in her Ted Talk, to persuade her audience that teens must filter their social media consumption or they can encounter _________ consequences.
strange
dangerous
funny
permanent
Argument Move?
In 2018, 80% of Americans had a social media account.
Statistic
Personal experience
Expert testimonial
Logical reasoning
Argument Move?
We're taught to trust in our media outlets, and we do. We trust them with our information, our privacy and with the filtered stories of our lives. I trusted social media with everything.
Cause/Effect
Comparison
Repetition
Detailed description
Argument Move?
In winter of 2017, I was scrolling on Facebook, as I did most afternoons, only to find myself clicking on a post that one of my friends had shared. Little did I know this would spread a hack through hundreds of bay area teenage girls' Facebook accounts...
Loaded words
Statistic
Repetition
Personal anecdote/experience
Argument Analysis:
Why does Manor include the personal anecdote about her experience with a Facebook hack?
She wants to put her audience's fears over social media hacks at ease and make people laugh at her misfortune. The humor in her unfortunate situation teaches the audience a life lesson.
Manor's anecdote shows a real example of how one action on social media can have severe consequences. The audience trusts her argument more because of the vulnerability she reveals in her personal experience.
By including this anecdote, the audience recognizes the hidden dangers online. They cast judgment over Manor for her reckless actions and will be less likely to make the same mistake.
Argument Move?
My view of the world was shattered. My trust had been broken, and I was petrified how easily this person could find information about me and what they could do with it.
Repetition
Loaded words
Cause/Effect
Detailed description
Which loaded words are strategically chosen by Manor to create a strong reaction in the audience about the dangers of social media?
My view of the world was shattered. My trust had been broken, and I was petrified how easily this person could find information about me...
shattered
broken
petrified
easily
Argument Move(s)?
According to a study done by UCLA in 2016, the singing brain circuits are activated when a teenager sees their likes as if they had just won the lottery.
Research
Figurative language/simile
Logical explanation
Repetition
Argument Move?
Psychology Today wrote an article titled, "Parents guide to social media use for kids" which writes to help parents understand how much social media usage is smart. The article recommends 60 - 90 minutes of screen time per day.
References a scholarly article
Logical explanation
Loaded words
Repetition
Argument Move?
Swedish psychologist K Anders Ericsson proposed that it takes roughly 10,000 hours to become an expert in something. Well, if the average teenager spends 6 hours and 40 minutes a day consuming digital media, they will become an expert in roughly 1499 days or 4.1 years.
Statistic
Expert
Cause/Effect
Celebrity endorsement
Argument Move Analysis: Why does Manor use this argument move?
...but what we're failing to understand is that you can never really clean yourself from social media. Our pictures and the messages they send are out there forever even after we've deleted them.
Manor appeals to the audience's sense of logic. She is helping them to simply understand that our actions online can never fully disappear "even after we've deleted them". Therefore, we must be cautious about what we choose to post.
Through this argument move, Manor educates the audience about the permanence of social media. She emphasizes the word "forever" so people will pay close attention on how to effectively clean up their social media accounts.
Manor is trying to ignite fear in her audience. She uses words like "never" and "forever" to make the audience fearful in posting any future pictures.
Edgenuity Bonus!
Who was Ronald Reagan's intended audience in his speech about the Holocaust?
Survivors
Skeptics
White Supremacists (hate groups)
General Public
Edgenuity Bonus!
What was Ronald Reagan's second speech about?
Aliens
Immigration
The US economy
The Berlin wall
