Thursday, January 19, 2012

Activity: Argument

http://www.slate.com/id/2302983/

Work together in your to answer the following questions about this article:
  • What is the article's main claim? 
  • What are the author's most important reasons presented in support of that claim? Identify at least 3. 
  • Does the author offer any qualifications of his claim? 
  • Can you identify any unstated assumptions that a reader might disagree with? 
  • is the author's argument convincing? Why or why not? 
Write your answers collaboratively in a Google Doc and share it with my gmail address. Make sure to write your names somewhere in the Google Doc.

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