Summary of progress

So far we have covered the following parts of the course

You need to be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of arguments by:

    • distinguishing statements from questions, commands, exclamations and arguments
    • distinguishing arguments from other types of writing
      (for example, descriptions, explanations and summaries)
    • identifying and describing the components of an argument:
      • premises/reasons and conclusions
      • inference indicators for premises and conclusions

You need to be able to analyse arguments by:

    • presenting an argument in standard form

In this lesson we are moving on to:

    • recognising, explaining and constructing diagrams that represent:
      • linked arguments, that is, where the premises are dependent
      • convergent arguments, that is, where the premises give independent support to the conclusion
      • serial arguments, that is, where there is at least one intermediate conclusion