Write a 3-5 pages handwritten (1 1/2 pg typed) essay arguing hat your selection is a good argument or a poor argument: the selection is entitled : Border Crisis in Texas. The reading material/article is attached. Do not argue the topic or its importance or value. Remember that the selection can have both good and bad elements. Identify and address both. Also remember that your agreement or disagreement with the thesis is irrelevant to its worthiness as a good or poor argument. Defend your position by using material about arguments in our textbook.
You are expected to address all 6 questions to support your position:
1. What type argument is this?
2. What is the thesis of the argument?
3. What points are made in favor of the thesis?
4. What counterarguments, if any, are given?
5. What fallacies, if any are used?
6. Was this a good argument?
Types of arguments:
1. Appeal to Emotion
2. Appeal to logic
3. Appeal to authority
Types of fallacies:
False Analogy
Argument in a circle
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Non Sequiter
Begging the question
Ad Hominem
Extention
Either – Or
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