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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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- Homework: Write a paragraph about why the sport or activity you picked is not good to watch or do.
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- Look at your partner’s response and write an outline for their ideas. Then discuss your responses and make any corrections needed.
- (If you didn’t do the homework, now you should write an outline of the paragraph you should have written at home.)
- sportsmanship
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- Do you have responses to the reasons you wrote against your favorite sport?
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- counterargument = an argument against an existing argument
- Including some counterarguments can make your writing more persuasive, especially if you effectively respond to the counterargument that a reader initially had against your position.
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- Respond (by writing an idea or two) to each main point opposing your favorite sport or activity. What would you say in real life to a person who confronted you with those points?
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- Homework: Write a persuasive essay supporting your favorite sport or activity, which addresses each of the counterarguments you outlined today.
- Sample beginning:
- Curling is a sport that has existed for hundreds of years, but many people didn’t know about it until it became an Olympic sport in 1998. Since that time, many people have criticized it because they think it is boring, ____, and ___. However, those people are wrong. Curling is actually a very exciting sport if you understand it, and ___.
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