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Exercise 5

1. Ready for something challenging?  Here's a fairly complex map structure:

We'll help you out by identifying the reasons and objections.  Your job is to work out where each of the following claims belongs in that map:

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Hints:

• Identify the top level reason and objection.  It helps to look for key words - for example, the word 'chocolate' is in the position, and it appears in three other claims.  Two of those claims belong at the level immediately under the position.
• Key words can also help us work out which claims belong to which branches: look for the key word 'cocoa' in one branch, and 'sugar' in the other

2. Check your work against the model.

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