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Planning Your Argument
Use the Graphic Organizer to plan your argument, following the claim-reason- supporting details structure of an argument.
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Claim
Reasons
Supporting Details
What is my central position on this issue?
What points will persuade my readers to accept my claim?
What facts and examples support the reasons I will include?
Debating the Topic
During the debate, be sure to:
• State a clear claim.
• Support your claim with reasons and evidence; when necessary, offer new support to elaborate on a previous point.
• Maintain a formal style and appropriate tone.
• Speak clearly, slowly, and loudly enough to be heard by the audience.
• Listen to other speakers’ claims, reasons, and evidence, and distinguish between claims that are supported by credible evidence and those that are not.
Language Resources: Agreeing and Disagreeing
Trying using the following types of sentence starters when you respond to the ideas of others: Even though you just said that ____________, I believe that ______________.
I think that ____________ is mistaken because she/he overlooks _______________.
I disagree with her/his view that _______________ because __________________.
You make a good point about _____________, and I would add that_____________.
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