Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Making Your Argument

The example I gave to the kids yesterday for their persuasive speech is to take a counter-argument to their point of view ("School uniforms will be good because they take the focus off of the clothes and then they can focus on the school work...") and counter that with their point of view ("However, one thing that these people don't take into consideration is that the discomfort of wearing a uniform can be more distracting to the learner than their regular clothes..."). These are both just for-instances. But they've written three arguments for their argument and three against it. They should pair these up as best they can to form three paragraphs.

These three paragraphs will create the body of the work, and then when this is done, we will focus on the introduction and the conclusion.

These are due on Friday, and I will do my best, as I said, to get them edited and back to the students by Monday morning.

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