Unit 3: Reasoning and Organization

The organizational structure of this passage is best described as:

The writer's reasoning in paragraph 1 relies primarily on:

The transition between paragraphs 1 and 2 serves to:

The writer uses inductive reasoning in this passage by:

The passage's organizational strategy of presenting evidence chronologically (2018, 2019, 2020) serves to:

The writer's use of concession and rebuttal in this passage is best exemplified by:

The reference to John Stuart Mill's "marketplace of ideas" functions as:

The writer's line of reasoning in this passage follows which pattern?

The writer uses a logical fallacy in this passage. Which of the following best identifies it?

The function of the parenthetical list "(from Flint to Jackson, Mississippi, from East Chicago to the Navajo Nation)" is to:

The organizational strategy of this passage can best be described as:

The series of sentences beginning with "They did not..." employs which reasoning strategy?

What type of reasoning does the writer use when moving from "8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans" to microplastics in "human blood, breast milk, and placental tissue"?

The writer's argument in this passage contains which logical pattern?

An essay organized by presenting a problem and then proposing a solution uses which organizational pattern?

A logical fallacy that assumes one event caused another simply because it occurred first is called:

Deductive reasoning moves from:

A straw man fallacy occurs when:

An analogy as a reasoning strategy works by:

A false dilemma fallacy occurs when:

A slippery slope fallacy argues that:

A writer who organizes an argument from least to most important evidence uses:

The organizational pattern of this passage is best described as

The author's decision to include the 40% colony loss figure in the opening sentence most effectively serves to

The organizational pattern of this passage is best described as

The function of the final sentence in the passage is primarily to