Thinking Critically: Drawing Conclusions and Implying Proof
Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau, John O’Hara
Activity Objective: Look at Nicholas D. Kristof’s essay “For Environmental Balance, Pick Up a Rifle” (in An Argument, Its Elements, and a Student’s Analysis of the Argument). Provide two examples of sentences from Kristof’s essay that use each type of conclusion or proof.
Look at Nicholas D. Kristof’s essay “For Environmental Balance, Pick Up a Rifle” (in An Argument, Its Elements, and a Student’s Analysis of the Argument). Provide two examples of sentences from Kristof’s essay that use each type of conclusion or proof.
Indicator of conclusion or proof: Transitions that imply the drawing of a conclusion
Examples of such transitions: therefore, because, for the reason that, consequently
Look at Nicholas D. Kristof’s essay “For Environmental Balance, Pick Up a Rifle” (in An Argument, Its Elements, and a Student’s Analysis of the Argument). Provide two examples of sentences from Kristof’s essay that use each type of conclusion or proof.
Indicator of conclusion or proof: Verbs that imply proof
Examples of such verbs: confirms, verifies, accounts for, implies, proves, disproves, is (in)consistent with, refutes, it follows that