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    What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Toulmin model of argumentation?

    Give specific examples. Why is the Toulmin model so successful? How can it be used to win arguments? In what sort of arguments could the Toulmin model fail to convince an audience? Are there limits to the situations in which this way of argument works?
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    Has anyone read the essay by Roger Kaplan, "Enabling Ignorance"?

    What are the underlying warrants? Are any of them cliche's seen regularly in the media? Warrants are the ideas that justify the support of an argument. They're what the reader has to believe in order to buy into the claim.
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