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Question 151

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What kind oreasoning is used in the following passage? Parents have found that getting the right help for their children who have learning disabilities can an arduous chore. It's like trying to make your way through a maze with no way out. Every time you think you're making progress, you run into another brick wall.

A) practical reasoning
B) legal reasoning
C) analogical reasoning
D) functional reasoning
E) comparative reasoning

F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

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According to your textbook, what kind oreasoning is used in the following statement? Last summer, a five-year-old boy in Seattle was killed by his brother when the two were playing with their father's gun. Last month, four-year-old Dylan Jackson accidentally killed himselafter finding a loaded gun at a friend's home during a birthday party. In Tampa, Florida, a two-year-old shot himselin the chest with a pistol left in the family couch. Clearly, children in America are at risk from gun accidents.

A) chain reasoning
B) reasoning from principle
C) deductive reasoning
D) reasoning from specific instances
E) analogical reasoning

F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

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Evidence and reasoning are the two major elements opersuasion that Aristotle called

Speakers who explain their expertise on the speech topic are likely to reduce their credibility with the audience.

What kind oreasoning is used in the following statement? The income omale accountants is 20 percent higher than the income ofemale accountants. There is a similar difference between the income omale and female lawyers. Even among doctors, we find an income gap o20 percent or more within most medical specialties. It is clear that in many professions women continue to earn less than men.

One othe reasons to use evidence when speaking to persuade is that it can make your listeners more resistant to counterpersuasion.

Analogical reasoning compares two similar cases and assumes that what is true oone case is also true othe other case.