Intended Effects - Explaining Logos Changes

Question 1

Name the kind of argument described below.

arguing that something will cause something else or that something is the result of something else

Answer 1

causal argument

The writer’s causal argument is intended to help the audience understand that condemning the defendents to death will not make America safer…

Question 2

Name the kind of argument described below.

that two things tend to occur together (but one doesn’t cause the other)

Answer 2

correlational argument

The writer’s correlational argument is intended to help the audience realize that historically black or immigrant neighborhoods tend to have lower property values…

Question 3

Name the kind of argument described below.

that something is true/not true about something (based on an objective standard of judgment)

Answer 3

argument of fact

The writer’s argument of fact is intended to lead the audience to conclude that the drone strikes were violations of the Geneva Conventions…

Question 4

Name the kind of argument described below.

that something is right/wrong, appropriate/inappropriate, high quality/poor quality or possesses some other subject characteristic (based on a subjective standard of judgment)

Answer 4

argument of value

The writer’s argument of value is meant to make the audience see the judge’s actions as unethical…

Question 5

Name the kind of argument described below.

that something should/should not be done in the future

Answer 5

argument of policy

The writer’s argument of policy is meant to make the audience believe that the proposed tax cuts should not be passed…

Question 6

Name the kind of argument described below.

that something will/will not happen in the future or that something would have/not have happened in the past if conditions had been different

Answer 6

speculative argument

The writer’s speculative argument is intended to help the audience understand that the company would have never been allowed to get that big if antitrust laws hadn’t been gradually weakened over the past 40 years…

Question 7

Name the kind of argument described below.

that something should be called by a certain term or that a certain term or concept is defined by certain characteristics

Answer 7

definitional argument

The writer’s definitional argument is meant to help the audience understand that a democracy derives its power from popular mandate…

Question 8

Name the kind of argument described below.

that something ought to be grouped in with something else or ought to belong to some category of things

Answer 8

classification argument

The writer’s classification argument is intended to make the audience believe that the novel ought to be considered a work of late-Realism, rather than a work of Modernism…