This is easy to do, as long as one focuses on the topic, and makes sure they don't accidentally take it in another direction. A good example I can me up with is if Jon were to say: "That lady shouldn't wear a fur coat because it is warm out today.", with Judy responding: "What are yo talking about? Fur coats involve the mistreatment of animals." This is not only confusing, but irrelevant to the original argument. It is crucial to the speaker to make sure their argument ties in with the topic and original argument, in order for the responding argument to be relevant.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Relevance
In chapter 4, one of the important elements that is discussed is relevance, meaning the relationship of an argument to the subject. The book in the examples gives a good example, where a responder redirects an argument to give his argument meaning, even though he is arguing about something unrelated to the subject. This is important when giving an argument, to make sure the argument you give is relevant.
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I really liked how you explained the part about relevance. You made it easy to understand and I did not have to look at the textbook to understand what you were talking about. I also liked how you gave an everyday example because it helped to understand the statement at hand even better than if you were to use something like a work example. I do think that you could have explained about the example a little bit more just to give an emphasis on the example. Other than that you had a really good topic and you explained it well.
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