ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on developing the critiques and presenting them in written form. To develop the critiques one must utilize the tools and then work through the logical outline of the demonstration and then to critique. The chapter takes the demonstration to critique from the essay 'The Death Penalty: The Needed Deterrent to Murder'. It works through each of the arguments, looking for possible weaknesses. Two of the three supporting arguments have the potential for being sound only when we employ the other, weaker interpretation. The second supporting argument exhibits the fallacy of appealing to a saying and of resting on an authority that is not universally recognized as determining what action should be done. The next task is putting the critique into coherent prose. A typical critique essay has the same three main parts as a typical demonstration: an introduction, a body, and a summary.