Final Exam

Chapter 4: What is the Toulman Model and how does it work?

The Toulmin model is an effective way of getting to the how and why levels of the arguments that we read. It allows us to dissect and break down the argument into different parts so that we can make judgments on how well the different parts work together, and it also allows us to thoroughly analyze what we are reading.

The Toulmin model has six parts; the first three parts are present in every argument and are as follows: the claim, support, sub-claims, warrants, and qualifiers.

The claim is the most important point to the argument because it is used to identify the main points of the argument or what the author is trying to prove. It is usually written at the very beginning of the argument, but it is based upon who the audience is, and how they are trying to influence that particular audience. It is usually straightforward and draws the reader in immediately.

Our next step in the Toulmin model is the support aspect and it is used to support the claim; this is usually the meat and potatoes of the argument and is used to convince the reader that the claim is valid. Some of the different ways that the support will validate the claim is to use facts, proofs, or evidence that support the claim, and the reason why they support the main idea or claim itself.

One way to validate the information being used is by way of sub-claims which is used to support the argument or the reasons for the claim, and supplies the evidence, opinions, examples, and factual information, to include photographs that can be used to support the claim.

Warrants link the data and other grounds to a claim and legitimize the claim, by showing the grounds that are relevant to the claim and can be unspoken, ...

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...se words represent their misgivings and the fact that all the things we do in life has consequences and ultimately their fate will be sealed with their deaths.

Our young society is faced with challenges ahead of them from bullying, to peer pressures, to poor employment opportunities, higher educational costs. The American dream is drifting more and more away from our younger generation and the prospect for a good education is still in our current modern day society.

Gwendolyn Brooks poem can be represented even in today’s society when a lot of youths are still dropping out of high school and higher schools of education, some choosing to go the straight and narrow past, but some are choosing that path that will inevitably lead them down the path to the very words that were represented in this poem and eventually it will lead to their own destruction and their deaths.