Can you complete the warming up to write an Argument?

Warming Up to Write an Argument

1. Write down at least three objections to each of the following propositions:

a. Women should be drafted into the military.

b. The United Nations should have its own army.

c. The euro should now be used in every country of the world.

d. Every official meeting of Congress should begin with prayer.

e. “I am not responsible for saving the world.”

2. For each of the following areas, list three topics you think you could develop

into a persuasive argument:

a. Something in your personal life you would like to change

b. A social or political problem that needs solving

c. An area of education you would like to see improved

3. Sketch out some ideas you would use to support the following quotations:

a. “Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.”

—Francis Jeffrey

b. “The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”

—Chief Justice Earl Warren

c. “There is no greater lie than a truth misunderstood.”

—William James

d. “The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.”

—John Kenneth Galbraith