Daddy assignment

MDP 514 PUBLIC ADVOCACY

PRESIDENTIAL & VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE EVALUATION

Due Thursday, October 29, 2020.

1. Draft a 500-word essay evaluating an argument presented by one of the participants in the 2020 United States Presidential Election Debate held on September 29, 2020. A high-quality evaluation will use Stephen Toulmin’s rubric to evaluate one of the arguments presented by a candidate.

2. Draft a 500-word essay evaluating an argument presented by one of the participants in the 2020 United States Vice Presidential Debate held on October 7. A high-quality evaluation will use Stephen Toulmin’s rubric to evaluate one of the arguments presented by a candidate.

Toulmin Model

Data

Claim

“What have you got to go on?” Data corresponds to the material of facts or opinion … commonly referred to as evidence

The claim … is what we normally speak to as the conclusion. It is an explicit appeal

Warrant

Warrant answers the question “How do we get there.” It carries the accepted data to the doubted or disbelieved claim.

Wayne Brockriede and Douglas Ehninger (1960), “Toulmin on Argument: An Interpretation and Application,”

Quarterly Journal of Speech, Volume 46 Issue 1, 44-53