3) Next, decide how you will develop each of your three supporting points. Make up brief outlines of the three supporting paragraphs.（In addition to preparing brief outlines, you may want to use other prewriting techniques. You may want to free-write or ask questions or make up lists.）
1) Take a few minutes to think about the four options. Which one in particular are you for or against, and why?
2) On a sheet of paper, make a brief outline of support for your position on one of the options. (Remember, you may choose to argue against one of the three comments, as well as for it.) Preparing the outline will give you a chance to think further about your position. And the outline will show whether you have enough support for your position. (If you find thaion and prepare another outline.)
disagree with you;
Five strategies Use Tactful, Courteous Language Point Out Common Ground Acknowledge Differing Viewpoints When Appropriate, Grant the Merits of Differing
Viewpoints. Rebut Differing Viewpoints
Functions: by directly addressing your opposition, you add credibility to your argument and increase the chance that others will be convinced that your main point is valid.
What your audience already know? How it feels about the main point of your argument?
Eg. What opinion your audience holds about junk
food on campus? What are likely to be their objection to your
Argumentation (2)
Considering Purpose and Audience Development Through Prewriting Development Through Revising
to convince readers (that your particular view or opinion on a controversial issue is correct. )
“Teenagers and Jobs” by Anna
Choosing her topic:
1) Something she cared about (controversial, qualified to argue)
To persuade your audience to take some sort of action.
A clear main point Plenty of logical evidence to back it up.
Eg. Thesis: Schools should stop providing junk food. Evidences: Check and identify the poor nutrition or harmful ingredients in junk food; Find out whether junk food is against what the school has preached for a healthy diet; Look for studies of Junk food affecting students’ academic performance;
4) Decide in which order you want to present your paragraphs. Emphatic order (in which you end with your most important reason) is often the most effective way to organize an argument. Your reader is most likely to remember your final reason.
argument? Why would people not support your main
point? What, if anything, are the merits of the
opposing point of view? Interview a few people you’re sure will