The editorial peice by Susan Cheever recalls on how attending a bar or an AA meeting can have the same after affects as attending a church service.
Claim
- Church services, and bar and AA atendances can help all acheive some
type of inner transcendence and closer relationship to the divine.
Data
- Personal experiences with all three social gatherings and similar observations made by others knowlegable in each activity.
Grounds
-many people can relate with attending a bar or church service and some claim that the cure for drinking comes down to a spiritual awakening.
Warrant
- It is a common beleif that most humans seek to acheive "peace beyond all understanding" as stated in the article.
Backing
-We drink alcohol, attend church, or share our troubles with others to help release ourselves from the stresses of everyday upsets.
Qualifiers
- Only in the case of spiritual people, probably for only those who believe in the divine.
Conditions for Rebuttal
- This claim can be considered valid unless someone did not want to reach internal peace.
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There's some good insight here, and relevant points drawn from the article. I think in order to see the relationships among the various parts of the Toulmin model of argument, it would help to simplify some of the text above.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, your summary of the article (before you list the claim), might be a simplar way of stating the claim:
C: Attending a bar or an AA meeting are similar
[because]
D: they both can help people find inner peace.
Then, the grounds for her data become her personal experiences and observations that you mention above. Remember, the grounds should answer the question "how do you know the data?" or "how can you be confident the data is correct."