What Are The Issue and the Conclusion?

Question 1

What is an issue?

Answer 1

A question or controversy responsible for the conversation or discussion. It is the stimulus for what is being said. Raise questions about the accuracy of descriptions of the past, present, or future; the link between the essay or speech

Question 2

Kinds of Issues

Answer 2

Descriptive Issues

Prescriptive Issues

Question 3

Descriptive Issues

Answer 3

They demand answers attempting to describe the way the world is, was, or going to be. Do, What, Who, How Questions

Question 4

Prescriptive Issues

Answer 4

Those that raise questions about what we should do or what is right or wrong, good or bad; Should, What ought to be done, and Must Questions; Social controversies are examples

Question 5

How to Search for the Issue

Answer 5

The Question I am Raising Is; Is it the right thing to do; Should; What is the author reacting to?

Question 6

Conclusion

Answer 6

The message that the speaker or writer wishes you to accept; what the writer is trying to prove; the communication’s main point; inferred; ideas that require other ideas to support something

Question 7

Basic Structure of Persuasive Communication or Argument

Answer 7

This because of that; This refers to the conclusion; that refers to the support for the conclusion; represents the process of inference

Question 8

Opinions

Answer 8

Unsupported claims; not a conclusion because no one has offered any basis for belief

Question 9

Making an Inference

Answer 9

To believe one statement (the conclusion) because you think it is well supported by other beliefs

Question 10

Critical Question to Be Used for Conclusions

Answer 10

Should I accept that conclusion on the basis of what is supporting the claim?

Question 11

Clues to Finding the Conclusion

Answer 11

1. Ask what the issue is (look at the title & look at the opening paragraphs)
2. Look for indicator words
3. Look in likely locations (look at the beginning and the end)
4. Remember what a conclusion is not
5. Check the context of the communication and the author’s background
6. Ask the question “and therefore?”

Question 12

Indicator words

Answer 12

Consequently, hence, points, thus, it follows that, shows that, indicates that, suggests that, therefore, to the conclusion that, the point I’m trying to make it, it is highly probable that, proves, the truth of the matter is

Question 13

What a Conclusion is Not

Answer 13

Examples, Statistics, Definitions, Background Information, Evidence

Question 14

Thesis

Answer 14

Should be clear; the central message you want to deliver; emphasize it;