You will write an essay in which you will analyze and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of an opinion/editorial article of your choosing. Your thesis for this assignment will state to what degree you find the editorial/opinion piece convincing or unconvincing. At the end of this project you will be able to discriminate between arguments’ premises and conclusions and evaluate the overall effectiveness of the editorial as a whole.
Instructions
Choose an editorial article to evaluate for this essay assignment. It might work best to enter a subject of your choice and the word editorial into a search engine to locate possible editorials to read.
Read through the article once for a general understanding of the writer’s ideas and general opinion.
In a second reading locate the premises and conclusions of a minimum of two arguments presented in the article.
Look for any assumptions (warranted or unwarranted) that author might be making; locate any conditional arguments, facts, and values the author might state or imply in the text of the argument; these are elements you should consider discussing in your essay.
Write an essay evaluating the strengths and any weaknesses of the author’s arguments indicating how convinced you are by the arguments presented by the writer. Be sure to identify the premises and conclusions of at least two of the primary arguments presented.
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