ARQ chapter 2, “What Are the Issue and the Conclusion?”
- The two main types of issues are descriptive and prescriptive. Descriptive issue is more about the time like the past, present and future. descriptive is more towards a description than a debate. A preservative issue is more of a debate if this issue is right or wrong. It has more of a personal opinion from a person than a group of people.
- Some questions I would ask to myself is: what is the issue? why is this important?, what are the reason? etc. I look out for indicator words to find the conclusion. For example of some indicator words: Consequently, in conclusion, therefore, etc. These words will help you locate the conclusion and also help you find the reasons to the argument that is being presented.
ARQ chapter 3, “What Are the Reasons?”
- The book define an argument from the introduction and why or why not of the argument, then it gives out reasons and evidences, then it will give out a conclusion to summarize it all. The book has strong reasoning to convince the reader.
- I ask myself: what are the reasons to support the argument?, how does it relate to the topic? etc. The indicators words to look out for when trying to find the reasons to relate to the topic are: as a result of…, studies shows that…, because of the fact that…, etc.
How ‘Intellectual Humility’ Can Make You a Better Person?
- The issue is that people underestimated how much information they know and think they are right with their opinion on a topic. The reason I found was: “we tend to learn more from the person we disagree with.” We tend to make excuses on our opinion in the topic. We also hold a fixed mind set which means we are surely meant that is true and won’t change and learn from it. The conclusion in this article is that we have our own opinion.