Data: PETA will donate fruit trees to an impoverished village for every "Pledge to be Veg."
Warrant: One should support donating fruit trees to an impoverished village.
Qualifiers or Conditions of Rebuttal: Unless one has certain dietary restrictions. The "Pledge to be Veg" must be taken before the end of January.
Grounds: Because PETA claims that it will do so and cites the "Fruit Tree Planting Foundation" (ftpf.org) to which it will supposedly donate money.
Backing: Because one should do something proactive to end world hunger. Because the recipients of the fruit trees will benefit from the "vitamin C and other natural goodness of the fresh fruit." Because the fruit trees will "reduce carbon emissions and allow rainfall to soak into the ground instead of washing away precious topsoil."
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This is probably the best Toulmin analysis I've seen from students this semester. Part of why it succeeds is that you take the claim and data from the document, but then you go on to extrapolate the rest of the model without trying to quote directly from it.
ReplyDeleteOften, texts don't make their warrants or their backing or grounds explicit, so you, the reader, have to tease them out. This is what Aristotle meant about argument when he called it enthymemic--it often lets the audience connect the dots and doesn't draw attention to the underlying support of the argument.