Have you considered addressing opposing viewpoints? Are you willing to make some concessions (compromises) toward opposing sides? What type of tone (serious, comical, sarcastic, inquisitive) best relates your message to reach your audience?

Have you considered addressing opposing viewpoints? Are you willing to make some concessions (compromises) toward opposing sides? What type of tone (serious, comical, sarcastic, inquisitive) best relates your message to reach your audience?

Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay in Chapter 5, and then write a 1000- word response to Chapter Activity #2

Chapter 5

Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay

1. Do you have a lead-in to “hook” your reader? (an example, anecdote, scenario, startling statistic, or provocative question)

2. How much background is required to properly acquaint readers with your issue?

3. Will your claim be placed early (introduction) or delayed (conclusion) in your paper?

4. What is your supporting evidence?

5. Have you located authoritative (expert) sources that add credibility to your argument?

6. Have you considered addressing opposing viewpoints?

7. Are you willing to make some concessions (compromises) toward opposing sides?

8. What type of tone (serious, comical, sarcastic, inquisitive) best relates your message to reach your audience?

9. Once written, have you maintained a third person voice? (No “I” or “you” statements)

10. How will you conclude in a meaningful way? (Call your readers to take action, explain why the topic has global importance, or offer a common ground compromise that benefits all sides?)

Chapter activity #2

Judging others is human nature. Some of us may practice fighting the urge to be judgmental more than others, but it is a very active battle. What lessons can you argue the characters from “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (page 231) and “Young Goodman Brown” (page 220) teach readers regarding the dangers of being judgmental?

Young Goodman Brown (1835)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman1 Brown came forth at sunset, into the street of Salem village, but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife. And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap, while she called to Goodman Brown.

1 Goodman archaic title for married farmer, typically a rank below a gentleman in terms of societal respectability

“Dearest heart,” whispered she, softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, “pr’y thee,2 put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed to-night. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she’s afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year.”

2 pr’y thee Old English for please

“My love and my Faith,” replied young Goodman Brown, “of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done ‘twixt now and sunrise. What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but three months married?”

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