New+vocabulary


 * __Terms to use for goals__**

categorize, interpret, complete, justify, deduce, measure, demonstrate, organize, determine, quantify, diagram, redesign, distinguish, relate, elaborate, revise, examine, simplify, explain, synthesize

Clarity Precision Accuracy Relevance Consistency Logical Correctness Completeness Fairness
 * __8 Standards of Critical Thought__** (see Critical thinking packet #1)

Premises Conclusion
 * __Recognizing Arguments__** (see Recognizing Arguments)

Reports: convey information about a subject Unsupported Assertions: statements about what a speaker or writer happens to believe Conditional Statements: if then's Illustrations: intended to provide //examples// of a claim, rather than prove or support the claim Explanations: tries to show //why// something is the case, not to prove //that// it is the case
 * __Disqualifiers of Arguments__** (see Recognizing Arguments)

Common Knowledge Test: is the passage seeking to prove or explain a matter of common knowledge? Past-Event Test: is the passage seeking to prove or explain and event that occurred in the past? Author's Intent Test: is the speaker's or writer's intent to prove or establish //that// something is the case? Principle of Charity Test: interpreting unclear passages generously, and in particular, that we never interpret a passage as a bad argument when the evidence reasonably permits us to interpret it as not an argument at all
 * __Tests for Explanations__** (see Recognizing Arguments)

DO OUR STATEMENTS PASS THE DISQUALIFIERS AND THE TESTS FOR EXPLANATIONS?

P.I. (premise indicators): since, as indicated by, because, for, in that, may be inferred from, as, given that, seeing that, for the reason that, inasmuch as, owing to

C.I. (conclusion indicators): therefore, wherefore, thus, consequently, we may infer, accordingly, we may conclude, it must be that, for this reason, so, entails that, hence, it follows that, implies that, as a result

INDICATORS ARE NOT NECESSARY IN ARGUMENTS.