CONCLUSION: Therefore this animal is not a dog.

 

16. Prepare either the positive or the negative side of the following question

for debate: _The recall of judges should be adopted as a national principle_.

 

17. Is this question debatable? _Benedict Arnold was a gentleman._ Give reasons

for your answer.

 

18. Criticise any street or dinner-table argument you have heard recently.

 

19. Test the reasoning of any of the speeches given in this volume.

 

20. Make a short speech arguing in favor of instruction in public speaking in

the public evening schools.

 

21. (_a_) Clip a newspaper editorial in which the reasoning is weak. (_b_)

Criticise it. (_c_) Correct it.

 

22. Make a list of three subjects for debate, selected from the monthly

magazines.

 

23. Do the same from the newspapers.

 

24. Choosing your own question and side, prepare a brief suitable for a

ten-minute debating argument. The following models of briefs may help you: