Use Critical Reasoning Skills to Evaluate Written Material
Recognize Stated or Implied Assumptions on which the Validity of an Argument Depends
What section of the newspaper is more likely to contain articles with implicit assumptions?
The editorial page. Editorials and syndicated columns are usually sophisticated, well-written passages with a point-of-view that may be supported by implicit assumptions. More notably, many messages in the Letters to the Editor section have unstated assumptions. Use the Letters to the Editor column for excellent practice at identifying assumptions.
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