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*   Homework 9 Handout --
    *   will be available sometime tonight
        (watch for e-mail letting you know when it
	is posted)

    *   if you turn it in by the beginning of class on 
        FRIDAY, November 9, that will be a 10 POINT BONUS

    *   otherwise, it will be due by the beginning
        of class on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

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*   REVIEWED diagramming steps from Week 11 - Lecture 1 projected
    notes (and Chapter 7)

    *   then did six more examples, the diagrammed results of
        which are included along with these notes;


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a few useful TIPS for diagramming arguments:
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1. Find the main conclusion first.
   ...then you can work through the passage to
      see how the argument as a whole supports
      the main conclusion

2. Pay close attention to premise and conclusion
   indicators
   *   key words, punctuation

3. Remember that sentences containing the word
   AND often contain two or more separate statements

4. Treat a conditional (if-then) statement as a SINGLE
   statement, and treat a disjunctive (either-or)
   statement as a SINGLE statement.

5. Don't number or diagram any sentence that is not
   a statement.

6. Don't diagram irrelevant statements (number them,
   but don't put them in the diagram with the arrows.)

7. It is OK to not diagram redundant statements.
   (number them, but don't put them in the diagram with
   the arrows)

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