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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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- Homework: Write a persuasive essay supporting your favorite sport or activity, which addresses each of the counterarguments you outlined today.
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- Tell your partner your thesis. Then your partner will think of some possible reasons to disagree. Then your partner will read your essay. Does the essay anticipate and address the counterarguments you thought of?
- Then offer any suggestions or corrections you thought of about your partner’s writing.
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- Predicting/Choosing supporting information for a thesis statement
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- If this is your thesis statement for a class assignment (which you have one week to do and for which you are expected to do some research), what information would you need to support it?
- “Smoking among teenage girls is rising (1) due to advertising that glamorizes smoking (2) and influences by peers (3).”
- 1 - Statistics about the percentage of teenage girls who smoke. (Which show that it is increasing.)
- 2 - Examples of advertisements that glamorize smoking (that make it look exciting and glamorous)
- - Explanation of how the advertising influences teenage girls to smoke.
- - Evidence that seeing this advertising increases smoking among teen girls.
- 3 - Evidence that teenage girls are influenced by peers (specifically, that they are influenced to smoke).
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- Make sure you know what type of information to expect if you’re reading a paper, or what type of information you’ll need if you’re writing a paper.
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