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Who is your audience? What do you know about your audience? How will this additional information help you revise your thesis?
What is one potential concern or question you can anticipate from your audience?
What is another potential concern or question you can anticipate from your audience?
What is another potential concern or question you can anticipate from your audience?
How will you respond to that concern or question?
How will you respond to that concern or question?
How will you respond to that concern or question?
8. Now that you have listed some objections to your position, it is time to start building your bank of evidence. For each reason under item 6 (your support), and each response in the chart above, identify evidence you could use to back up your position. Create a graphic organizer to record the following information:
Your Reasons Evidence to Support Reasoning Opposing Position Evidence to Refute
9. Effective argumentative writing uses evidence that appeals to both logic and emotion (logos and pathos). Review the evidence list that you generated above. Which points of reasoning can best be supported with evidence that appeals
to logic? Which points can best be supported with evidence that relies on emotion? Label each piece of evidence as logos, pathos, or both.
10. You have identified your claims and responses to counterarguments, as well as the evidence to support your opinions. Next, as a class, you must decide the order in which to present these points. Working with your teacher, generate
a class-constructed outline of the organizational plan for your argumentative writing.
Drafting the Essay
11. Working with your teacher and classmates, draft the introduction to your argumentative essay. Be sure to include the following elements:
• Lead (the attention grabber)
• Context (the situation that establishes the topic and its importance)
• Thesis (the position of the class on the topic)
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
Logos refers to the Greek word for logic. In writing, it is used to describe a writer’s use of logic and reason to support an argument.
Pathos refers to the Greek word for emotion. In writing, pathos is used
to describe a writer’s use of emotion to support an argument.
Writing Workshop 2 •
Argumentative Writing 7
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