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Article: Identification of unexpressed premises and argumentation schemes by students in secondary school.
- Article from:
- Argumentation and Advocacy
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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1. INTRODUCTION
Secondary education should enable students to deal adequately with argumentative discourse so that they can assess the arguments put forward by others and determine their own position. An adequate evaluation of argumentation starts from an analytic overview of the argumentative discourse. In such an overview, among other things, the unexpressed premises and the crucial argumentation schemes are identified (van Eemeren and Grootendorst 1984, 1992).
The extent to which ordinary language users are capable of carrying out such identifications correctly can only be answered by empirical research. Here, we report about some exploratory empirical ...