The assignment is due on December 16, 2015. The paper should be about 2,000 words in length, although a bit longer is okay, and include referencing to the article and to the course text by page number, bracketed, within the text of your essay. Footnotes for these references are not required.
Emailed files must be named as yourlastname_1711B. Attach the file to an email to me, at with yourlastname_1711B in the subject heading. If you want a confirmation of receipt, ask for one, or tell your email program to ask for one.
So, here is what I am looking for: you want to set out the basic structure of the Grants’ argument, what they are concluding and the evidence they provide to support that conclusion (Chapters 1 and 2). Then you want to examine that evidence to determine if it is indeed supportive of their claim – does their evidence contain any fallacies? (Chapters 3 and 4) If you find some, note them by name, provide a description of the fallacy and say why this passage is an instance of that fallacy.All this should be done in an essay style format.
Some claims in their arguments may be fallacies and others are quite acceptable. Some premises in an argument are indeed suitable, for various reasons. We discussed was appropriate authority and testimony, and the other is that we will accept many things based on their being part of the common body of knowledge. Just because no source/authority is cited for these points does not make them fallacious.
Most importantly, we are concerned with evaluating the Grants’ ARGUMENT, and not with their or your position on abortion. Your personal views on abortion are irrelevant to the assessment of their argument. The only issue is, how well do they argue for their position?Should we be persuaded? Is this a good argument? (or not)
I will discuss all this in the class following the test (and after that when needed). Questions and/or clarifications will be welcomed then.