Analytical - Analyzing an Argument

[clandry]

For these kind of prompts:

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.

 

This is one of the prompts for the argument section. 

 

Most of the prompts I have practiced thus far are stating the assumptions ones...and exposing the argument's flaws based off of these assumptions.

For the prompt pasted above, is it similar to the assumption prompts? It doesn't seem like the prompt above calls for a test taker to claim whether or not the argument/recommendation is flawed, just that it wants a discussion of the questions needed. 

[emilyrobot]

It's exactly the same thinking, just with a different phrasing. In the prompt you're familiar with you would say something like "this argument makes the assumption that dogs are related to bears, which is unsupported etc. and so on". For the question prompt, you would say something like "In order to evaluate this argument, I would have to know whether dogs are related to bears. If dogs are related to bears, then X Y Z, but if dogs are not related to bears, then G E F."