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Chapter Six Opinions
This chapter explores that familiar word opinion and examines the way it affects our ability to think critically. Again we have a familiar but confusing word that can be used in many different ways. Exercises are offered to help you assess your understanding of the different varieties of opinion. Writing applications ask you to test and expand what you know into essays that articulate, support, describe, or analyze opinions. Readings show you how professional writers can present support for an opinion; in one case through direct statement, and in a second case through a satirical sub-statement.
TFY Chapter Summaries
Chapter Six Opinions
This chapter explores that familiar word opinion and examines the way it affects our ability to think critically. Again we have a familiar but confusing word that can be used in many different ways. Exercises are offered to help you assess your understanding of the different varieties of opinion. Writing applications ask you to test and expand what you know into essays that articulate, support, describe, or analyze opinions. Readings show you how professional writers can present support for an opinion; in one case through direct statement, and in a second case through a satirical sub-statement.
Glossaries
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| Advice | Advice is to recommend an opinion to someone else. |
| Infer | To use imagination and reasoning to fill in missing facts. To connect the dots. |
| Judgment | Judgment is a final opinion, decision, conclusion or evaluation about something. |
| Opinion | Opinion is a word used to include an unsupported belief, a supported argument, an expert’s judgment, prevailing public sentiment, and a formal statement by a court. |
| Personal taste or preference | Personal taste or preferences are forms of opinions that express likes or dislikes. They can be irrational and need not be supported with reasons. |
| Principal claim and reasons | These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something. |
| Thinking | Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering. |
| Web Links | |
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| EPINIONS | |
| Who says your opinion doesn’t count? Consult a popular site consisting of reviews on cars, books, movies, music, computers, sports, travel etc. made by "real people." | |
| http://www.epinions.com/ | |
| READERS’ OPINIONS | |
| Consult this daily section of the New York Times that prints readers’ responses to featured articles. | |
| http://www.nytimes.com/pages/readersopinions/index.html | |
| WORLD-WIDE OPINION | |
| Here are links editorials appearing in an international array of newspapers. | |
| http://www.uwb.edu/library/guides/SelectionWorldNews.htm | |
| WRITING YOUR OPINION TO NEWSPAPERS | |
| This excellent site offers specific information about how to write letters to editors and op-eds that will be published. It is especially designed for non-profits. | |
| http://www.ccmc.org/oped.htm |
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