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1
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How do we find the conclusion: trigger words, thus, so, therefore. Should, clearly. What is a conclusion? The thing we are ultimately arguing for.

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Identify the conclusion

2
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Understand all parts of that argument

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Role of questions

3
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Support the conclusion using additional info found in the answer

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Strengthen

4
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Tear down conclusion

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Weaken

5
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Find what both people mention they disagree about.

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Disagree

6
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Find what they mention to agree about

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Agree

7
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often, WE are responsible for the

conclusion. Do conditional math, and get ourselves a logically perfect answer.

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Must be true

8
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Making sure we dont use language that is too strong or weak. Find the connection between what is given as evidence and the conclusion.

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Most Strongly Supported

9
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Explain a bizarre occurrence. The right answer needs to give us reasoning behind what’s going on!

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Paradox/Resolve

10
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Identify the gap between the conclusion and the premises/ evidence

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Flawed Reasoning

11
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Match the answer with the same pattern of structure

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Parallel Reasoning

12
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Match the answer with the same pattern of structure, but it’s bad

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Parallel Flaw

13
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Which question in answer choices matters the most to us to answer the question

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Evaluate the argument

14
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This is the same as a MBT, except we want to know what cant be true.

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Cannot Be True

15
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Type 1: Apply the principle in the stimulus

Type 2: scenario is in the stimulus and we need to find the principle

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Principle

16
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Fill the big hole! Bridging the hole! Read your conclusion, read your evidence. Something in the premise we assumed was relevant without defining it.

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Sufficient Assumption

17
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negate the answer choices, find the one that when

negated, breaks our argument.

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Necessary Assumption