In using the stock issues to analyze a policy proposition to determine the potential issues he will argue, the opponent
(a) needs to remember he only needs to defeat the advocate on one of the stock issues in order to prevail.
(b) can develop generic arguments that apply to a number of different interpretations of a proposition, such as the cost of a proposal.
(c) generate potential issues on both sides of the controversy in order to anticipate what the advocate might argue.
(d) All of the above
D
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challenging the advocate's criteria. In using this strategy, which of the following could you NOT do? (a) Challenge the advocate's definition of the value object as either including elements she failed to consider, or excluding elements that she erroneously included. (b) Challenge the appropriateness of the advocate's criteria as "good" measures of effect, significance, and inherency. (c) Challenge the appropriateness of the advocate's criteria on the basis that they are too unusual or that they are more appropriate for measuring some other value object. (d) Provide better, more appropriate, criteria for measuring the value object.
Matty and Spencer both read the same news article about the President’s new gun control proposal, but based on their political affiliations and attitudes toward the President, they both had very different interpretations of the story. Matty and Spencer engaged in:
a. biased reading b. meaning matching c. meaning construction d. none of the above
What questions should you ask about the audience and
situation before writing your persuasive speech? What will be an ideal response?
Your listeners, not you, determine whether you have credibility
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