ARGUMENT

An argument is, simply, an educated guess or opinion, not a simple fact. It is something debatable: "Men have walked on the moon" is a fact., bue "People will walk on Venus in the next ten years" is an opinion. Anything that reasonably can be debated is an argument. A simple argument sample usually presents a debatable pinion and then offers support in favor of it, or sometimes an argument will discuss both sides of an issue and then give good reasoons for choosing one side over the other.

You may not be able to really begin to analyze arguments until you become good at recognizing them. Many students are not very analytical to begin with, so they will require some help in identifying (a) that something is an argument and (b) what yhe various parts of the argument actually are.

Let´s begin with some basic technical vocabulary:

Premise: a reason offered as support for another claim
Conclusion: the claim being supported by a premise or premises
Argument: a conclusion together with the premises that support it

So, to take the oldest example in logic, one that Aristoteles used in teaching at his academy:

All men are mortal.
Socrates was a man.
Therefore Socrates is mortal.

The three lines taken together constitute an argument. Line 3 is the conclusion. Lines 1 and 2 are premises.

A crucial part of critical thinking is to identify, construct, and evaluate arguments.

Here is an example of an argument:

If you want to find a good job, you should work hard. you do want to find a good job. So you should work hard

The first two sentences here are premises of the argument, and the last sentence is the conclusion. To give this argument is to offer the premises as reasons for accepting the conclusion.

Read the essay and then write the conclusion.

“Liberal” comes from the words liberty. What is liberty for mass media? Mass media holds liberty as its primary value. The designation of mass media is to deliver an enormous amount of different message to a very large audience. It is supposed to play the role of the mediator between the events happening in the worlds around and the viewer in order to make the viewer’s opinion over the issue objective and suspended.

Mass media claims to provide a diversity of different thoughts including political, religious, economic and other ones without thrusting the opinion of the audience. Do journalists, news producers and all the mass media representatives choose themselves the event they will report and the material they will cover? The reality says that the “liberal bias” of the mass media is nothing more than a myth. The nation sees and hears only what the mass media owners want it to perceive.

The major mass media companies do a great providing almost all mainstream broadcasts and almost a half of the main newspaper publications. Mass media “nominally” does have liberal bias but in reality it is an illusion to make the audience feel safe while watching TV, reading newspapers and listening to the radio. The owners of the mass media companies have their own motives to cover the news in a specific way or from the side they are interested in. The liberalism ends at the point when it comes to the need of the company’s owner to impose his will on the audience.

Conclusion.

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2. WRite in the box first the premise, conclusion and then the argument, finally do clic on show.