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Exercise 5

1. Make a Rationale Reasoning map of the following argument:

You should wear a seatbelt in the car as seatbelt wearers are less likely to be injured in a crash since seatbelts prevent your body from being thrown around violently.

Copy and paste sections of the above text onto the scratchpad of the editor to proceed.

Hints

• There are TWO indicator words to identify here
• Work out what kind of indicators they are: is what follows each a reason, objection, or position?
• Put the claims in appropriately colored boxes
• Work out how to arrange the boxes in your map, by asking yourself which claim a given reason provides evidence for

2. Check your work against the model.

Set 3 - Indicator words • 3 kinds of indicators • Example • Exercise 1 • Exercise 2 • Exercise 3 • Exercise 4 • Exercise 5 • Exercise 6 - Quiz • Final

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