# ✅ Checkpoint: Argument and AI Critique

By Better Wise



## Quiz

1. In the chain 'claim, because reason, which only counts if assumption,' what job does the assumption do?
   - It states the point you want the reader to accept.
   - It supplies the statistic or study that proves the reason.
   - It is the unstated bridge that must be true for the reason to support the claim.
   - It restates the claim in different words so the reader hears it twice.
2. Which sentence is a reason that actually carries weight for the claim 'Study rooms should stay open until 9 p.m.'?
   - Because students who stay on site after school finish their homework more reliably than students who go home first.
   - Because I really feel that late hours matter.
   - Because it is about student success.
   - Because the library is open late anyway.
3. Your claim is that a campus writing center reduces late-night panic. Which piece of evidence fails the relevance test?
   - A fall survey showing 41 of 120 first-year students missed at least one deadline before using the center.
   - A direct case of a student who finished a paper after two center sessions.
   - A dated report from the center's own records on visits per week.
   - A statistic about national tutoring enrollment.
4. You want to show that spaced practice beats cramming. You have room for one source. Which do you take?
   - A classmate saying cramming worked for them.
   - A social post quoting the news piece.
   - The 2019 study itself.
   - A 2019 news piece about a memory study.
5. Which critique prompt contains all five working parts (perspective, artifact, job, constraint, output)?
   - Here is my paragraph. What do you think?
   - Argue against this claim as a skeptical budget officer. Do not rewrite it. List the three strongest objections, ranked by how much damage they do.
   - Rewrite my paragraph so it sounds more persuasive.
   - Tell me if my argument is good and fix any weak sentences.
6. An AI critic objects: 'The 2019 survey you cite had only forty respondents.' How should you sort this objection?
   - Must fix: rewrite the argument immediately.
   - Verify: check the source yourself before changing a word.
   - Ignore it because AI critics cannot know anything about studies.
   - Set aside: it is only a style comment.
7. The source-level check where you leave a page and ask what independent sources say about the source itself is called ____ reading.
8. A reason that only restates the claim in different words is ____.
9. Assemble your capstone argument as a chain (claim, because reason, which only counts if assumption), then run one full critique round on it. Paste your critique prompt and your sorted objection list, and rate your work against the rubric.


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## Contents

Part of [✍️ Think Before You Prompt: Develop Independent Writing and Original Thought](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought.md)

- **🧠 Think First: Draft Before You Ask AI**
  - [💭 Freewriting: Dump First, Judge Later](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/freewriting-dump-first-judge-later.md)
  - [🗺️ Outlining From Memory and Naming Your Knowledge Gaps](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/outline-from-memory-and-knowledge-gaps.md) (sign-in required)
  - [🎯 Thesis Development: From Topic to Defensible Claim](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/thesis-development-defensible-claim.md)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Thinking-First Foundations](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/checkpoint-thinking-first-foundations.md)
- **⚖️ Argue, Critique, Verify**
  - [🧩 Argument Construction: Claims, Reasons, Assumptions](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/argument-construction-claims-reasons-assumptions.md)
  - [🔍 Evidence Selection and Stress-Testing Sources](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/evidence-selection-and-stress-testing.md)
  - [🤖 AI as Critic: Prompts That Earn Real Pushback](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/ai-as-critic-prompts-for-pushback.md)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Argument and AI Critique](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/checkpoint-argument-and-ai-critique.md) — this lesson
- **🛠️ Verify, Revise, Own It**
  - [🔎 Verifying AI Suggestions Before They Enter Your Draft](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/verifying-ai-suggestions.md)
  - [🚧 Helpful Assistance vs Outsourcing the Thinking](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/assistance-vs-outsourcing-thinking.md)
  - [🏆 Capstone: Draft, Critique, Revise, Reflect](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/capstone-draft-critique-revise-reflect.md) (premium content)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Ownership and Revision](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/checkpoint-ownership-and-revision.md) (premium content)
- [Course cheatsheet](https://everwise.study/courses/think-before-you-prompt-develop-independent-writing-and-original-thought/cheatsheet.md) (premium content)