Directions:
Get
into the group you are assigned and answer the following questions.
When you've concluded your discussion, you will share your work with
the class.
Part
1
If everything's an argument, that includes newspaper
headlines. For each of the following online newspapers, choose three
different headlines (along with their brief accompanying teasers) and
state what exactly those headlines are aruging.
Part 2
Using the online newspapers listed
above, find an example of an epideictic argument, a deliberative argument,
and a forensic argument. Then, explain why you classify each example
as you did.
Part 3 (Take-home
activity)
Stasis theory helps rhetoricians systematically
discover a point of disagreement. You can also classify arguments by
considering their stasis or the point of contention. Your text identifies
four common types of arguments and then suggests how statis theory can
help you understand them. They are:
- Arguments of Fact: Did something
happen?
- Arguments of Definition: What is
the nature of the thing?
- Arguments of Evaluation: What is
the quality of the thing?
- Proposal arguments: What actions
should be taken?
Find two very different examples of
one of these types of arguments in any of the online newspapers listed
above. Then, explain why, despite their differences, your two examples
still qualify as the same type of argument.