SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 12, CCRB IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING ARGUMENTS

In this chapter 12, "IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING ARGUMENTS", The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate What is an argument?, How to identify an argument?, What are the types of an arguments?, and How to evaluate an arguments?.
Well, when we talk about an argument, we think an argument is a dispute where there is a strong disagreement, "They were involved in a voilent argument".
Example Since 1947 AD my neighbouring country INDIA and PAKISTAN are being fighting for a state naming kashmir. Both country says kashmir belong to them but there is no any conclusion or solution only a reason to fight each other. Millions of my neighbor lost their life during the war and sitll they are fighting for a kashmir. For above example we have a concept about an argument.
But in this chapter author describes an ARGUMENT is also the logical structures that people use when they write and speak to present ideas and to persuade others to support those ideas. These logical structures consists of statement, some of which are conclusion and some of which are the reason that supports them.
Example: if my friend tells me "SLUM DOG MOVIE" is the best movie ever made than that is a conclusion and if she tells me that movie has a good story, interesting people, nice dailogue, full of facts etc than that is a reason for a conclusion.
Argument is also a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true.There are two parts of an arguments they are ;firstly the judgement, opinion, you reach after thinking about or investigating an issue and secondly a statement that explans, justifies or supports a conclusion. Inorder to identify an argument we need to take help from word clues they are reasons and conclusion and also there are different types of an argument they are; deductive and inductive. Although judging the quality of an argument is a complex task, you can use various strategies to help you decide if an argument in a text book is a sound, they are ; determine dependability , distinguish facts from opinions, detect fallacies in an arguments.