Friday, September 16, 2011

Exercise 7.6

Exercise 7.6
1.        
a.       common knowledge
b.      not common knowledge
c.       common knowledge
d.      common knowledge
2.       Part 2 reading The Stem Cell Debate by John W. Dononhue
The accuracy of the article is in question when you cannot validate ‘millions of other citizens’ who are opposed; he could have cited a survey taken.    He speaks in vague terms when attacking the position of his opponents.  How does he know how they think when he says they think ‘abstractly’?   He doesn’t quote scientist for either side when trying to figure out how they think instead quoting their publicists.  It is hard to validate who[the publicists] they are and who do they represent?  When the article quoted the New England Journal of Medicine it added credibility to that reference.  But what did this information have to do with his argument.  He did not go into that this could be an alternative only hinted at it.   I do not believe he was very through with his claim.  He had insufficient  expertise data to support his claims.
3.       Acceptable or unacceptable
a.       Unacceptable, plagiarized
b.      Acceptable
c.       Unacceptable, faulty

Sources

White, Billings,The Well-Crafted Argument,  Cengage Learning, 2011

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