Answer: The four step method to judge an argument, according to Lewis Vaughn in chapter 3 of his book titled " CONCISE GUILD TO CRITICAL THINKING", are as follows;
• Finding the conclusion and premises
• checking to see if the argument is deductive or inductive.
• Determine it's validity or strength.
• Discover if the premises are true or false.
Using this step to judge the argument.
First Step: The conclusion of this argument is; The best way to build an argument is to cite credible source and stay focused on the fact of the issue
The premises of this argument is; If we put too much extraneous information in our argument, our readers will get lost and forget our best points. If we rant and rave about the truth, no matter how important that truth is, they will have no reasons to believe us. So, we should always be objective and stick to the facts.
SECOND STEP: This argument is inductive because the premises of the argument is trying to give good reason for you to believe in the truth of it's conclusion.
THIRD STEP: because the truth of the premises strongly support the truth of the conclusion, therefore the argument is valid.
FOURTH STEP: the premises are true, because people tends to give their audience, when the speaker is communicating what they want to hear at that moment, they is tendency of a listener lossing interest in a speech that has not caught his attention with the fact he's interested in.
IN EVALUATION OF THIS ARGUMENT, BECAUSE THE ARGUMENT IS VALID AND THE PREMISES ARE TRUE, WE CAN AGREE THAT THE CONCLUSION IS TRUE.
