Examples of counter-arguments in the following topics:
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- Instead, strategic use of quotations can be a way to provide clarity to your position and increase the argumentative strength of your paper.
- Quotations can also be introduced in order to present a counter-argument.
- However, engaging with a counter-argument demonstrates to your reader that your research was not limited to positions that confirmed what you already thought.
- " Additionally, a counter-argument can be an opportunity for you to begin transitioning into the body of your argument by first showing why you think the counter-argument is incorrect.
- For example, early in your paper is best for introducing a quotation that contains a counter-argument in order to articulate how it is problematic and how your position addresses this important problem.
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- You'll be able to see whether you have enough evidence to support a given claim, whether your claims support your larger thesis, how to link your arguments and counter-arguments, and what order of presented evidence feels most powerful.
- Does it make more sense to do it early on to preempt audience objections, or would you be better off building up your argument before addressing any counter-arguments?
- Looking at your outline board, come up with counter-arguments and questions for each claim.
- Make it your goal to address these questions and counter-arguments sufficiently in your essay.
- Once you have the elements of your argument, you need to connect them together in an outline, forming the skeleton of an argument that makes sense.
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- Critical thinking can be thought of as an equation: Argument = Reason + Conclusion.
- In other words, a logical argument needs a specific reason and a valid conclusion in order to be considered scientific.
- Other aspects of critical thinking include assumptions, principals, and counter arguments.
- Counter arguments are statements that counter another person's statement or argument.
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- You want the reader to be drawn in immediately to the heart of the argument.
- (This is a debating technique that allows the debater to skillfully parry any counter-argument.)
- Including counter-arguments in your paper is a technique we'll discuss in the drafting section.
- Make a list of the strongest arguments for and against your thesis statement.
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- You have your thesis and all of the points of argument and counter-argument mapped out, along with their supporting evidence.
- Each point of argument or counter-argument will have a paragraph of its own.
- Let your topic and style of argument guide your method of introduction: A controversial topic that includes strong parries with counter-arguments might best be introduced by a provocative statement.
- Whether you start off with your strongest point or a counter-argument, or you reel your reader in slowly, your body paragraphs will each have the following elements:
- Paragraphs that articulate a counter-argument need to refute it: Perhaps it goes without saying, but if you're going to bring up a counter-argument (and this is an excellent strategy), you need to acknowledge it and then give the reasons it does not lead to the conclusion its proponents espouse.
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- Within the body, an author may also suddenly take up a contrary position in order to demonstrate why his or her argument is more accurate than the former.
- If in the course of reading a text, you suddenly find yourself lost or confused, stop reading and go back to the last place in it where you could still follow the author's argument.
- Some scholarly articles are particularly arduous and require slow, repetitive reading to understand the argument of the author.
- What can often happen in particularly dense or difficult articles is that authors do not signal to readers that they are transitioning into an engagement with counter-arguments, so suddenly it seems as though authors are arguing for the opposite of their thesis.
- In many scholarly articles, as it should be within your own work, authors will not introduce a quote into a text unless they feel it provides something important to their larger argument.
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- A study of limits and continuity in multivariable calculus yields counter-intuitive results not demonstrated by single-variable functions.
- A study of limits and continuity in multivariable calculus yields many counter-intuitive results not demonstrated by single-variable functions .
- Continuity in each argument does not imply multivariate continuity.
- However, continuity in multivariable functions yields many counter-intuitive results.
- Describe the relationship between the multivariate continuity and the continuity in each argument
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- Antithesis is a counter-proposition that denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition.
- By explaining a concept, idea or argument with its opposite, you give your audience a 360 degree understanding of your point.
- Antithesis is a great way to lead into exactly how you want to portray an idea or argument.
- Antithesis makes for a great way to set up your argument or idea by showing your audience the opposite.
- From there, you can then specifically tailor your argument to fill the void left when describing its opposite.
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- From the late 1830s through the early 1860s, the pro-slavery argument was at its strongest, in part due to the increasing visibility of the small but vocal abolitionist movement, and in part due to Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831.
- Among those most famous for propagating the pro-slavery argument were James Henry Hammond, John C.
- The famous Mudsill Speech (1858) of James Henry Hammond, depicted in , articulated the pro-slavery political argument when the ideology was at its most mature.
- In this view, any efforts toward class or racial equality ran counter to this theory and therefore ran counter to civilization itself.
- These arguments asserted the rights of the propertied elite against what were perceived to be threats from abolitionists, lower classes, and non-whites to gain higher standards of living.
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- Scientific evidence is evidence which serves to either support or counter a scientific theory or hypothesis.
- Personal experience is useful for emotional appeals, but is not always good for more scientific arguments.
- Statistics are a type of scientific evidence that can bolster arguments.