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14 Mar 2023, 07:23
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zoezhuyan
There are four major types of CR quesitons:
1). "Describe the Role" (Boldface) questions
These are the least common. These questions put in bold words in an argument and ask you what 'role' in the argument the bold words are playing. In these questions, you are looking at an argument, and so will be looking for "Premise" and "Conclusion" in the paragraph.
2). Assumption Family
These questions ask you to find assumptions, strengthen arguments, weaken arguments, and evaluate arguments. If you see a question in this category, you know you are looking at an argument, and so will be looking fro 'Premise' and 'Conclusion' in the paragraph. You will then think about the assumptions that MUST be true for the argument to last.
3). Explain the Discrepancy
These questions give you a story that someone finds surprising, and it's your job to explain how that surprising thing could be true. I actually consider these questions 'weakeners' in disguise, but it's not immediately obvious how. There won't be explicit premise and conclusion in the paragraph (but if you're looking for them, you could find them).
4). Inference Questions
These give you a paragraph and ask you which answer is logically supportable based on that paragraph. In these questions you are not looking for 'premise' and 'conclusion.' Some paragraphs have something like them, but it's not really the point to deal with the argument, so I don't even act like I am.
16 Mar 2023, 05:47
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ReedArnoldMPREP
hi ReedArnoldMPREP
I have studied the video these days,
here are 3 questions are used to move through the assumption questions.
1) what would it mean for the conclusion to be false ?
2) how could that happen, if the premises are true?
3) what assumption must be true to save the argument?
I wonder are you always figure out Q2 ? what will you do if you cannot answer Q2? will you go to options directly if you can't answer Q2 ?
I tried the 3Q - approach to practice my missed assumption questions, sometimes I feel it is helpful, sometimes I can't answer Q2.
appreciate your response .
have a nice day
16 Mar 2023, 07:39
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zoezhuyan
I think you can find an answer to that in my original response to this post.
When I got to that second question, I asked: "How could customer relations be improved even if fake smiles cause negative responses?"
I wrote this:
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I didn't like that answer to question 2. I didn't really think it even really was an 'answer.' The most important part, though, is that I asked the right question: "Do fake smiles that cause negative emotions in customers REALLY mean we can't improve customer relations?" It's a question that seems really hard to answer! How could 'negative emotions' improve customer relations?!?! I couldn't quite figure that out, but I knew it was the right question to ask. And because I asked it so specifically, I recognized in the correct answer choice since it was related to that question. The right answer choice essentially says, "Fake smiles do not cause better reactions in customers than other facial expressions low-morale employees make." Which made me realize a possible ACTUAL answer to my question 2: "Oh, well, maybe fake smiles aren't the BEST face, maybe they aren't even a GOOD face, but if they are a BETTER face for customers to see than the one employees currently have, than customer relations are improved. So this author must assume that fake smiles aren't BETTER than the faces employees currently make."
I hadn't thought about this exact possibility, but by asking the question up front: "Is there ANY WAY fake smiles and the negative emotions the cause could, somehow, IMPROVE customer relations?" I was able to see why the right answer was what it was.
So, my point is **asking the right question** is the really valuable part. If you can come up with answers, that's great, but if you can't you'll still be in the right headspace to the think about the answers.
