Inferring and Explaining

35 Another Brokenhearted Teenager Here’s a sad story. Lyrics to “It’s My Party” can be found here: https://genius.com/Lesley-gore-its-my-party -lyrics, and Lesley Gore performing her song can be found here : https://youtu.be/acRMALrg1t4. Lesley is in tears, and she assures us wewould be too if something similar happened to us. Sowhat the heck happened? She doesn’t spell it out, but she knows and so do we. Take some time, now, and schematize Lesley’s argument. What is her evidence that Johnny is no longer hers and has taken up with Judy? arguments exerCIses 1. What is an argument? What are the three components of any argument? 2. How can you have a big argument, with lots of name-calling, without either party present- ing an argument for why they feel aggrieved? 3. What do you think of the quality of Holmes’s evidence for his theory that Watson had decided not to go ahead with the investment? Why? QuIz four The following article comes from the New York Times . Your task is to schematize the argu- ment for the conclusion that William Henry Harrison died from enteric fever. The article “What Really Killed William Henry Harrison?” by Jan McHugh and Philip A. Mackowiak, March 31, 2014, is available here: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/science/what-really -killed-william-henry-harrison.html Notes 1 Larry Wright, Critical Tinking (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), ix. 2 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “Te Adventure of the Danc- ingMen,” in Te Return of SherlockHolmes (NewYork: W. R. Caldwell, 1905), http://www.gutenberg.org/ fles/108/108-h/108-h.htm. 3 Doyle. 4 Doyle. 5 Doyle. 6 Doyle. 7 Doyle. 8 Doyle. 9 Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).

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