Homework question (find assumption) help!?

Question

I need to find assumption behind these two examples.. But this is very tricky..

I dont understand why teacher prvide thesis and reasons.. plz help!
Thesis: Rock music is having a negative impact on college learning.
Reasons: 1. Books require much contemplative effort; thus, they can’t compete with the easy, instant gratification provided by music.
2. Attention directed to rock music diverts attention from studies.
3.Students are absorbing the oversimplified message of the music rather than the complex messages of their professors.



Should it be legal for newspapers and television reporters to refuse to reveal their confidential sources? Indeed, it should. The reporter-informant relationship is, after all, similar to those of priest and penitent, lawyer and client, physician and patient – all of which have a degree of privacy under the law. Moreover, if that relationship were not protected, the sources of information needed by the public would dry up.

Answer 1

There are more assumptions in each than you could shake a stick at (this assumes a certain stick-shaking ability in itself!)

The thing is, each of the numbered statements of the first thesis are assertions of fact -- they each contain the implicit assumption that they are correct, but no proof is given. But perhaps a part of the assignment is missing, namely that these are supposed to be accepted as proven facts for the sake of the assignment. Within the thesis itself, there is an assumption that there even is a negative impact on college learning in the first place -- none of the points listed in support of the thesis establish that there even is a negative impact of anything on college learning. First one must prove that college learning has suffered at all, then one can examine what the cause might be.

The second case is more tricky because of the way it is expressed. I'll let you figure it out for yourself, but give you a hint: it is in the final sentence (actually that sentence conatins two assumptions, but one is more sound than the other).

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Maid Marion -- how about helping someone learn HOW to do the assignment rather than just saying "you won't learn..."?

Its a given that someone hasn't learned how to do the assignment once they ask for help (if they had learned, they wouldn't need to ask). Sometimes professors/teachers don't do a very good job of explaining an assignment or what is needed to perform the assignment. Sometimes a student has difficulty because they missed some prior foundational understandings. These people are not going to be helped at all by stating such obvious facts as "you won't learn if I do it for you." They need help picking up the information they missed.

Answer 2

:) u have to be able to find FACTS....things that are proven, most likely, basis on truth.

the thing w/ #1, is that u'll probably find many Good, Straight A students who HAVE listened to rock music; therefore, the reasons that students can't understand professors, or attention is diverted from studies, etc..those are ASSUMPTIONS..not Proven facts. u can find many students who DO listen to rock and do well, just as many students who DO listen but don't do well. =T it is not a fact.

#2: is actually more tricky to me, because it is based on fact. patient -client relatinoships all do have protected privacy under the law. also, if that relationship was not protected, much less people would be willing to give up information that might get them in trouble!! i suppose the assumption is that reporter-informant is similar enough to patient-client..u have to be able to PROVE that (which eventually, u probably can in theory....). another assumption is that the sources of info would dry up, which can also probably be proven, but it's still an assumption w/o further information/proof.

Answer 3

in case you learn the history of technological know-how you will see that lots of the great breakthoughs have been roundly denigrated as nonsense with the help of the scientific community. training may be basically as dogmatic as faith. after all what number pupils actual question what they're being taught? and how many instructors settle for being questioned? In my experience, very few. As an addition to this answer, i could prefer to point out that what you have stated is a fact with a question mark tacked on the top, no longer an truthfully question. needless to say you have already got an answer in suggestions and are utilising this communicate board to particular that, no longer very inquisitive in case you question me...

Answer 4

The first example assumes that rock drives your attention away from school.

The second assumes that by exposing your source, you alienated everyone else from ever becoming someones source of information.

Answer 5

i was gona answer or at least try to help you...but i don't want to read all of that...right now at least..so maybe next time

Answer 6

we wouldn,t be helping you learn if we gave you the answers