6.(A) Advertisement: Anyone who exercises knows from firsthand experience that exercise leads to better performance of such physical organs as the heart and lungs, as well as to improvement in muscle tone. And since your brain is a physical organ, your actions can improve its performance, too. Act now. Subscribe to Stimulus: read the magazine that exercises your brain.
The Advertisement employs which one of the following argumentative strategies?
(A) It cites experimental evidence that subscribing to the product being advertised has desirable consequences.
(B) It ridicules people who do not subscribe to Stimulus by suggesting that they do not believe that exercise will improve brain capacity.
(C) It explains the process by which the product being advertised brings about the result claimed for its use.
(D) It supports its recommendation by a careful analysis of the concept of exercise.(E)
(E) It implies that brains and muscle are similar in one respect because they are similar in another respect
Why A can’t explain the argumentative strategies? “from firsthand experience” indicates “it cites experimental evidence”
“Subscribe to Stimulus: read the magazine that exercises your brain.” Can demonstrate “subscribing to the product being advertised has desirable consequences.”
What’s wrong with A? |