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\nSeries:INSTITUTIONLaw School Admission Council,Newtown,PA.REPORT NOLSAC-RR-98-02PUB DATE1999-08-00NOTE15p.PUB TYPEOpinion Papers(120)EDRS PRICEEDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage..DESCRIPTORS*College Entrance Examinations;*Persuasive Discourse;TestConstruction;Test ItemsIDENTIFIERSArgument Research;*Task Structure  \n# ABSTRACT\n\nThe nontechnical ability to identify or match argumentativestructure is considered by many to be an important reasoning skill.  \nInstruments that have questions designed to measure this skill include majorstandardized tests for graduate school admission,for example,the Law SchoolAdmission Test(LSAT),the Graduate Record Examination(GRE),and theGraduate Management Admission Test(GMAT).Writers and reviewers of suchtests need an appropriate foundation for developing such questions.They needa proper representation of phenomenological argumentative structure,forlegitimacy,and because these tests affect people's lives.This paperattempts to construct an adequate and appropriate representation of suchstructure,the logical structure that an argument is perceived to have bymature reasoners,albeit reasoners who are not trained in logic.(Contains 1table and 22 references.)(Author/SLD)  \n| Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made  \u003Cbr>from the original document.   |\n| --- |\n\nED469 176  \nTM034481  \nLSAC RESEARCH REPORT SERIES  \n# U.S.DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONPERMISSION TO REPRODUCE ANDOffice ofEducational Research and ImprovementDISSEMINATE THIS MATERIALHASEDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATIONBEEN GBANTED BYCENTER(ERIC)This document has been reproduced asreceived from the person or organizationoriginating it.\n\nJ.VASELECK  \n口Minor changes have been made toimprove reproduction quality.TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESPoints of view or opinions stated in thisINFORMATION CENTER(ERIC)document do not necessarily representofficial OERI position or policy.  \n# Testing for Structure Recognition\n\nGilbert E.PlumerLaw School Admission Council  \nLaw School Admission CouncilResearch Report 98-02August 1999  \n2  \nBEST COPYAVALABLE  \nTm  \nThe Law School Admission Council is a nonprofit corporation that provides services to the legaleducation community.Its members are 196 law schools in the United States and Canada.  \nCopyrightC 1999by Law School Admission Council,Inc.  \nAll rights reserved.This book may not be reproduced or transmitted,in whole or in part,by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying,recording,or by any information storage and retrievalsystem,without permission of the publisher.For information,write:Communications,Law SchoolAdmission Council,Box 40,661 Penn Street,Newtown,PA 18940-0040.  \nLSAT⑧and the Law Services logo are registered marks of the Law School Admission Council,Inc.  \nThis study is published and distributed by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC).The opinions andconclusions contained in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position ory of the Law School Admission Council.  \nTable of Contents  \nExecutive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1  \nAbstrac…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1  \nIntroduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1  \nQuestion Forma………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2  \nFormal Structure……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4  \nInformal Structure …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8  \nReferences …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1  \n# Executive Summary\n\nThe nontechnical ability to identify or match argumentative structure is considered by many to be animportant reasoning skill.Instruments that have questions designed to measure this skill include majorstandardized tests for graduate school admission,for example,the Law School 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