This essay is has to be writing using the Toulmin System Toulmin System Original Enthyme: your claim with because clause Claim: the point or position you are trying to get your audience to accept Stated Reason: your because; clause; your reasons are the subordinate claims you make in support of your main claim Grounds: evidence (data, facts, testimony, statics, examples)supporting your stated reason. Warrant: the unstated assumption behind your enthymeme; the statement of belief, value, principles, and so on, when accepted by an audience, warrants or underwrites your argument. Backing: evidence or other argumentation supporting the warrant (if the audience already accepts the warrant, then backing is usually not needed, but if the audience doubts the warrant, then backing is essential) Conditions of Rebutal: your acknowledgment of the ways that skeptics might challenge your argument, show its weaknesses, or identify conditions under which it does not hold; adversaries can question either your reson and grounds or your warrant and backing. Qualifier: words or phrases limiting the force of your claim. To help you here is an example; Org End; we shouldn''t elect Joe as committee chair because he is too bossy. Claim: Whe shouldn''t elect Joe as committe chair. Stated reason: Because he is too bossy. Grounds: various examples of Joe''s bossiness; Warrant: bossy people make bad committee chairs. Baking: Arguments showing that other things being equal, bossy people tend to brign out the worst rather than the best in those aruond them; bossy people ten not to ask advice, make bad decisions. Conditions of rebutal: Rebuttal of reason and grounds: perhaps joe isn''t really bossy (countervidence of joe''s cooperativeness and kindness; testimony that joe is easy to work with) Rebuttal of warrant and backing: perhaps bossy people sometimes make good chairpersons(argumets showing that at times a group needs a bossy perosn who can make decisions and get things done) perhaps joe has other traits of good leadership that outweigh his bossiness