Argument v.s. Judgment
While reading Argument in the Real World, my eyes were opened to the fact that arguments are all around us. The social media culture we live in has opened doors for voices to be expressed anywhere and everywhere. Television commercials, social media, Youtube, billboards, etc. All voice opinions, and we as the viewers also have a choice to make. Do we believe their argument, or do we make a counter argument of our own. Until reading Arguments in the Real World, I have always viewed an argument as a bad thing such as a heated conflict. It is imperative that we see the difference between an argument and judgement. You see, “[T]he Internet is full of arguments of judgement and policy where the authors have not articulated reasons or used relatively simple criteria for them” (p.33). As educators, it is imperative that we teach, “students to define (and identify) the criteria to evaluate a digital argument [this] may help temper a mass spewing of unsubstantiated judgements that can be dest...