ENGT 102 Communication Skills

  Examine the text, The Stub-Book, from the perspective of a critical thinker. Written by Spanish writer Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (1833-1891), the story “The stub-Book” deals with the dedicated and hardworking farmers of Rota. Though the story has a simple plot and theme but the subject it conveys is unpredictable. As the story falls under the category of critical and creative thinking we really need to think out of the box to properly analyze the whole story. The story beings with the description of Rota, the smallest town in the bay of Cadiz. Initially, writer has presented the historical and architectural significance of the place while later on the writer turns his focus to the main character of the story, Uncle Buscabeatas. Here the writers technique of writing has lost the track and completely defocused what’s important resulting in shrinking of description of the main essence of the story. The author here presents the descriptive method of writing in such a way that a pictur

  Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text ' The Stub-Book ' Claim: Truth is always victorious. Ground: Buscabeatas, an old farmer of Rota, gets justice after the theft of his pumpkin. The thief tried to hide the truth by claiming that he had bought these pumpkins from uncle Fulano. Uncle Fulano was scared in  front of the policeman. When Buscabeatas was asked to prove if they were his pumpkins, he set the  stubs to the pumpkin stem which fitted and he got his pumpkins back. Warrant: The truth about the ownership of the pumpkin was revealed and justice was granted to the old farmer. Backing: This story tries to show hardworking farmers of Rota Village. The farmers worked hard and earn livelihood. But the thief stole their product. Truth is a beacon of light that defies the darkness. It is inevitable. It cannot be ignored or avoided. When the farmer found out about the thief he got his pumpkins back. So the writer shows truth is truth. There is always victory of truth. Rebutt

  Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text ' Keeping Errors At Bay ' Bertrand Russell  (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) Claim: Errors can be avoided by following simple steps.   Ground: To avoid errors you should observe everything before doing any act, have knowledge and be aware of the other’s people perspective different from your own. You must be able to argue with your own imaginary character. You shouldn’t be too proud of yourself. You should try to be less dogmatic and cocksure through realizing the possible reasonableness of a hypothetical opponent. You should be very wary of your opinions that flatter over your self-esteem. Likewise, conquering the fear with wisdom and pursuit of the truth rather than following superstitious taboos can drastically improve your error making attempts.   Warrant: The rules provided in the ground can be followed as they are very simple and realistic. You don’t need to be an expert or genius to avoid errors. You just need to a