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Planning a Claim You Can Actually Defend — Homework
Practice writing arguable claims and fair counterclaims on new issues.
- 1.Turn this vague opinion into an arguable claim: "Weekends should be fun."
- 2.Is "Chocolate is the best dessert" an arguable claim for an essay? Explain.
- 3.Write a genuine, fair counterclaim to this claim: "Middle schoolers should be allowed to choose their own bedtime."
- 4.Explain in one sentence why a strawman counterclaim is unfair to the other side.
- 5.Write one new arguable claim, different from the school start-time claim, and one genuine counterclaim to it.
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