Friday, November 18, 2011

Mission Critical Website

Wow, I have to say this website is awesome. Just reading the whole thing would probably cover half of the contents in the course and prepare you with a sound reasoning and critical thinking ability to improve your persuasive and analysis skill. The website was split into 3 sections. The first one is the Basics on Parts of an Argument and the Basic Relations of Conjunction and Disjunction of Arguments. For the Basic Parts of Statements or Claims, the author went into details on its general definition of qualified claims and specific claims. It also went into further details on knowing the difference between statements of verification, evaluation, and advocacy. Verifiable claims are those that can be confirmed either by observation or by reference to established sources, such as books. Evaluations are claims of taste and interpretation. Opinions can be expressed sometimes as statements of verification and sometimes as statements of evaluation. Advocatory claim describes what ought to have been or ought to be. Just going over this alone is already so helpful for prep with the course. The contents were fairly understandable and the exercises help with clearing any confusion with some of the definitions.

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