The Toulmin Argument

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You did an excellent job of explaining all the aspects of the Toulmin argument, which gives me and the rest of your audience total clarity. Where you go into depth of what each paragraph is for and entails, which is very helpful. In which I totally agree with all of your explanation of what is supposed to be included in the Toulmin argument, when writing an essay. Therefore, the depth that you write about the Toulmin argument is useful, along with being valuable to your audience. However, with your explanation of the example, I thought that it could be more specific. Since the example you choose is a more hypothetical one, rather than an example from modern day politicians or one from an actual company. In addition, I think it would be more

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