Purchase Solution

Warrant Cause and Effect

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

1. Define warrant in your own words, and explain why the warrant is important in an argument.

2. Select either "Finding Your Future," "Stop Me Before I Shop Again," or "Runner's Story" and explain whether it uses inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, or both. Make sure you illustrate your claims with evidence (examples) from the essay.

For questions 3 and 4 use one of the following attached essays:

Where Have All the Heroes Gone? http://www.ithaca.edu/icq/1998v1/heroes.htm
Runner's Story
I, Too, Am a Good Parent

3. Select a different essay that uses a cause and effect argument, and walk through the logic involved in its cause and effect argument. You may phrase this in terms of its major premise and minor premises, if you like, or you may identify its claim, support, and so on. Feel free to answer this question in list or outline form:
Major premise:
Minor premise, etc.

4. Select another essay, one you have not discussed in the above questions yet. What warrant(s) does the author use in it, and how are these warrants communicated? Are they directly stated? Implied in the choice of sources? Make sure you give specific evidence to support your claims.

Purchase this Solution

Solution Preview

If you take this assignment step by step, it would not seem so long and boring. I would take it from step one on defining terms. Since I don't have your text, I can only define the terms from using Dictionary.com (for you). However, I believe you were supposed to understand the terms from your own perspective. You can however use a reliable source to help you out.

From Dictionary.com (you can also use the Oxford Dictionary Online....by going to the JSTOR site of your university liberary's homepage), it defines warrant as: authorization, sanction, justification. Having defined this term for you, you should be able to link that to an argument. If you take a few moments and brainstorm on these two terms, that would help.

The next ...

Purchase this Solution


Free BrainMass Quizzes
Who wrote it?

Students will match the literary work with the correct author. I have selected works which are often taught as part of a high school or college curriculum

The Lie Factor – Finding Truth in Graphs, Graphics and Writing

In order for a piece of writing to be valid, its information must be factual. This belief translates into its graphics as well. “Academic Research and Writing”, by Linda Bergmann, presents information detailing how and why it is important for graphics to display honest information. It additionally provides methodologies that readers can use to decipher truth in graphs, graphics and writing, and create their own. This quiz tests students on this information.

Paradise Lost - Milton

Students will be able to test themselves on their knowledge of Milton's Paradise Lost and gain a better understanding of key points that their instructor may ask them about.

Introductory Vocabulary for "The Pearl"

Introductory Vocabulary Terms for "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck. The novella that presents a family in Mexico who suddenly has riches and the impact on their lives.

APA in-Text Citation Basics

Executing correct documentation format can be difficult. This is a brief quiz regarding in-text citations for APA format that will help you to master the basics.