My Understandings of Toulmin's model of argument

By argumentation, we meant by the process of putting individual's thoughts, forming reasons, justifying beliefs and drawing certain conclusions with the aim of influencing thoughts and validate the logics. In order to build an effective argumentative piece, we can go through different tools and models of argument and Stephen Toulmin's model of argument, being one of the most comprehensive model that incorporates almost all the elements required for argument, attempts to organize our argument in a well manner.

This practical and realistic approach is based on six different elements: Claim, Ground (Data and Evidence), Warrant,Backing,Rebuttal and Qualifier.

Claim is something like statement that you put forward trying to inform your readers about something or simply expressing the facts. This is the main argument that you attempt to convey your readers. We can take some examples of claim as,

1. Many boys are addicted to play PUBG        Mobile.

2. Self-Realisation takes you to the                  milestone.

Making your claim will let your reader know about the intention of writing argument and now you should support your claim to gain belief from your readers. Toulmin introduced a word called Grounds. Grounds is the root of your claim that justify your statement through the depiction of relevant data and evidence. As I mentioned some claims in aforementioned lines, in order to prove my claim. I shall present the statistics that in just year 2020, there were above 3 million downloads of PUBG Mobile from the male-users only.

The next term is Warrant that bridges over the Claim and Grounds. Of course, it is the general assumptions, universal truth, beliefs that can be summed up from the claim and grounds. To one of my few instances, warrant can be drawn as, Boys love to play games. This is my assumption that links the grounds to the claim.

You should also justify your warrant. To support the validity of your warrant, it is necessary to introduce additional data as

backing. Backing is the back support of your warrant. When I wrote my warrant as, Boys shows their high dedication towards games, many of readers might question "How do you know that?" Google has signified that many of the game downloaders are male users which backs up my warrant.

Now, Rebuttal is very interesting term defined in this model. While you present your arguments in your piece, you should also critically expect the relevant answers or opinions from your readers and with that anticipation, you should mention your statement addressing the expected response from the readers. Rebuttal in the case of mine can be, we should not forget that boys also show their dedication towards playing Free-fire to many extent. This counters your claim, acknowledges your limitations to claim and may overturn your conclusion as well.

Qualifier is something like a way to express how your claim has been confined in some boundaries. It tells the readers that there are some areas where the validity of your claim doesn't exist. Here, my qualifier shall be, Boys, mainly in South Asian countries like India, Nepal, Pakistan,etc, are likely to play this addictive game.