The Book Offers Long Lists of Evaluative Adjectives That Can

question 20

Essay

The book offers long lists of evaluative adjectives that can be applied to premises, reasons, claims, and arguments. Why so many possible evaluative terms?

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Definitions:

Logistic Growth

Population increase that results in an S-shaped curve; growth is slow at first, steepens, and then levels off due to environmental resistance.

Ecology

Study of the interactions of organisms with other organisms and with the physical and chemical environment.

Environmental Resistance

The combined physical, chemical, and biological limiting factors that restrict the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population within an environment.

Communities

Social groups of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.