a) What conclusion is drawn in this passage?
b) What IQ is it answering?
c) Give two rival conclusions, one better(higher ranking on the data given) and the other worse (lower) than the one in a.
d) What does your answer in (c) tell you about the soundness of the argument in the passage?
e) Provide some relevant new information and articulate its relevance.
3. S1: For as long as his parents can remember, 11-year-old Johnny has had difficulty breathing, tired easily, and was though to be asthmatic.
S2: Recently, physicians discovered a toy brick lodged in one of Johnny’s lungs, and when it was removed, Johnny’s breathing difficulty immediately vanished.
C: Johnny’s breathing problem was due to the toy brick.
a) What is this argument’s Implicit Question?
b) No rival conclusions can be very serious given the support in this argument. Recognizing this, state two rivals that might become serious on easily describable discoveries (just give the rivals, not the discoveries).
c) Think of some new information that would be relevant and articulate its relevance.
d) Is the new information you added in (c) specific or general support? Explain.
4. On my way home from work the motor in my old car sputters to a stop. Before switching off the key I notice that the fuel gauge reads empty. On reflection, I don’t remember filling up lately, so I figure I must be out of gas. I grab the can from the trunk and start walking.
a) In this passage, I do a little reasoning and reach a well-flagged conclusion. Schematize my argument.
b) Give two rival conclusions I’m obviously rejecting (make them as serious as possible)
c) Why would “something’s wrong with the car” be a poor way to express a rival?
d) What is the Implicit Question I’m trying to answer?
e) Give an example of a rival that is not serious.
f) Articulate the relevance of the fuel gauge reading.
g) Think of some relevant new information and articulate its relevance
