Week 16 Question 3

3). Pick one concept from throughout the semester that you feel can use further discussion.


I feel that some parts of Chapter 9 (Concealed claims) could be further discussed only in the sense of examples. Extra examples of downplayer, up-player, hyperbole, weaselers, and shift the burden of proof, would have been a lot more helpful for me at least, only because the book did not do a good job in my opinion giving examples or explaining exactly what each term was. Also for me Chapter 7 (Counter-Arguments) could have been a little more explained outside of the book, because for me the book just did not do justice on giving good examples throughout this chapter. Also I found that Chapter 8 (General Claims) had too many things within the chapter to explain individually, so it was a bit hard to understand exactly what contradicted with what and so on. I just wished sometimes while reading all of the chapters, that the book gave a couple really simple examples of each term or idea and then gave a couple complex examples of each term or idea because when there was only complex examples it was a little hard to follow with such a huge explanation as to why or what was being explained.