Zack Stovall Argument Analysis

Reasoning and Argumentation 101 with Professor Fields touched on and developed many skills that can be used in daily life when interacting with others and their diverse opinions and views. Throughout my daily conversations I would often find myself noticing fallacies I had learned from reading the book and my notes in others’ arguments and opinions. While I was not the most vocal in the class, I do believe that I applied the lectures to my everyday life more than others. As a result, I gained many valuable skills for evaluating arguments which brings me a form of entertainment when someone says something that has no logic when given deeper thought. Additionally, social media is trying to lure in its viewers with ads using the power of manipulation more than ever. However, the class has taught me to see through the tricks of social media and evaluate the ads. One of my favorite class homework assignments was evaluating an ad because the deeper meanings
I think the way Zack presented his argument was set up very well and followed the Dewey and Toulmin argument models we learned in class. He first framed the problem, then gave his claim and grounds to support it. His grounds pertaining to how parents should not be stigmatized due to pushing sports on their kids because of the growing obesity issue was very logical in the technological based nation we all currently live in. However, I think he should have further addressed at which point parents should stop pushing sports on their kids or what the line is for pushing too hard for their children to play sports. Additionally, I believe his argument would have been stronger if he would have elaborated more on his response to objection. However, his argument made logical sense and I was convinced to be on his side of the argument. In my opinion, his argument was a success with only a few improvements needing to be