Assignment task: The following five passages contain arguments. Using the tools for identifying parts of arguments in Units 1 and 2, analyze the arguments by bracketing and labelling the premises and conclusions in the passage. You must diagram the arguments using circled numbers, direction arrows, and brackets. You must also include a brief explanation of how you determined your diagram. Your explanation should be sufficiently detailed to prove or demonstrate that your identification of the argument is correct.
We learned that the restaurant had several past health-code violations. Not only that, we found out they are using expired food. We should eat somewhere else and call the food inspector.
The traffic circle should be eliminated. It slows down traffic, which makes people tailgate. Tailgating leads to road rage, which leads to altercations between drivers. No one really knows how to drive in a traffic circle. Driver's education spends less than ten minutes explaining them. Drivers right now have enough distractions with cellphones, dashboard dining, and all kinds of multitasking while driving. Let's make driving easier for them and get rid of the traffic circle.