Article- Student interest vital for San Antonio politics.
Your assignment is to create an argument map based on the opinion piece from The Paisano Online, the renowned student newspaper of UTSA.
Divide the following questions among the members of your group. When everyone in the group agrees, use a new page to produce a Toulmin map of the argument. This is a group assignment and everyone in the group gets the same grade.
Grounds: What evidence does the opinion piece provide to support its argument?
Claim: What is the central claim being made by the article? What kind of claim is it? (These are the types discussed in class: definition, categorical, causal, resemblance, or proposal - or a hybrid of two kinds of claims?)
Warrant: How is the claim tied to the audience's values, assumptions, and beliefs?
Qualifier: How is the claim qualified, if it is?
Backing: Does the audience need to be convinced that it shares the author's values?
Rebuttal: Does the argument look at counterarguments? How are they refuted?