English B1A

1. English B1A Warrants

2. Argument warrants Claim Reason Evidence Counterargument

3. Warrants • Warrants connect your claim to your reason. • Academic warrants “are specific principles of reasoning that particular communities of researchers develop over centuries of thinking and writing” (154). • “Advanced researchers rarely state warrants in their reports because they assume that their readers know them, and so stating them would seem condescending” (154).

4. Warrants • Questions to ask yourself about your warrants. • Is it basically true? • Is it prudently limited? • Can it be trumped? • Is it appropriate for your audience? • Are your reasons and claim good instances of the general warrant? (p. 160)

5. Warrants • When should you state a warrant? • If your readers are new to your field • If you use new or controversial reasoning • If you face a hostile audience

6. Warrants • How to challenge warrants • Experience • Authority • Systems of knowledge • Culture • Methodology • Faith

7. Activity • Read through “What’s Happened to Disney Films” by John Evans. Diagram his argument. • What is his main claim (thesis statement?) • What are his reasons? • What is his evidence? • What are his warrants? They are often unstated here, so you’ll have to read in-between the lines to find them.