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Descriptive Assumptions Dennis Cruz

03/01/2018

CRT 1401

Descriptive assumptions are unstated ideas that support the reasons an author provide and therefore supports her conclusion. We must be careful and learn how to categorize assumptions by only taking on consideration the one that might change the meaning to an argument. This are called trivial assumptions and we can identify them by asking ourselves, What are the possible different meanings certain this key word might have? Q1. Define DAs in your own words (IYOW): Descriptive Assumptions are the beliefs we have about how the world is or how the world works. Q2. Give your own example: WYOEx of a DA: Smartphones are destroying social people’s lives. Teenagers and adults are starting to core more about social media than their own social lives. Anytime families get together they spend more time watching their phones and taking pictures to share on Facebook rather than have family quality time.

Q3. On page 72, there is the example of a definitional assumption about the ambiguity of the word “driving.” Give your own example of a common activity that has more than one meaning and describe those different meanings (give at least 3 different meanings). You could look at different descriptive assumptions in defining the word “dieting,” “sleeping, ” “texting,”“dating,” or “marriage.” What can the word “studying” mean? It depends on the context, it can mean you are studying for your final exams. Or it can also mean studying a book, sum it up or look for the message the

book gives. Or it could be studying a movie for an audition you have next day about the sequel of that movie. Q4. On page 75, there is the example of a job of a coal company executive and their DAs about the beauty of strip mining. Think of another job category and write about some DAs that a person in that job might make about their industry, or how people behave, or how the world works. Job: Actor Possible DAs: A person who works as an actor might think Hollywood is fake, overrated and very difficult to reach. Q5. On page 75, with the example of young people and credit cards, the argument is not taking into account that there are other ways to financial stability. What other DAs might the financial advisor be making about the finances of young people, or the way young people behave financially? The financial advisor might believe that most young people take bad decisions regarding money. He is assuming most young people spend too much because they have access to credit and they don’t build their credit with another method like a loan for a car or investing money on a company to make their money grow. Q6. List the four Trivial Assumptions on page 78: a) It is trivial to point out the writer’s assumption that his reasons are true. It would be repetitive.

b) It is trivial to point out that the reason and conclusion a logically related, because they must be related. What we must ask ourselves is how they are logically related. c) Is also trivial to point out that the argument and the author assumes that we will understand the logic, terminology and have the appropriate background knowledge. d) Thinks that the communicator believes her reasons are true is also trivial because if she doesn’t, she wouldn’t be making the argument in first place.

Q7. For Passage 3, on page 80: Community Fires. Finished on class March 1st. Q8. Page 80 Community Fires DAs (Descriptive Assumptions of the author) Possible DAs linking the Reasons to the Conclusions of Community Fires: One belief the author probably has about how the world works that must be true in order for the Reasons or Conclusion of Community Fires to be true is that education is the key to prevent disasters and save lives. Another unstated belief of the author about how students behave that helps support the Conclusion is that students tend to create fires or accidentally cause one. This helps support the author's Argument by saying that kids need preparation and knowledge about how to react in case of a disaster or school fire....