Analyzing an Argument This activity will help you meet this educational goal: You will self-select an argumentative text to read, analyze, and discuss. Directions Read the instructions for this self-checked activity. Type in your response to each question and check your answers. At the end of the activity, write a brief evaluation of your work. Activity You’ve learned about the structure and characteristics of arguments, the rhetorical situation, and how to determine the key ideas and issues addressed in argumentative documents. Now, you’ll use what you’ve learned to analyze and discuss an argumentative text of your choice. Part A Choose to read either “The Man in the Arena” or “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort.” Then, type the title of the text you selected and write a brief explanation of why you chose the text.

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glamis thou art, and cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promis'd; yet do i fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition; but without the illness should attend it. what thou wouldst highly, that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, and yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great glamis, that which cries, "thus thou must do, if thou have it: and that which rather thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone." hie thee hither, that i may pour my spirits in thine ear; and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd withal.  

he lacks ambition.  

he is hesitant.  

he lacks courage.  

he has moral scruples.