regarding the arrest of Amos Yee, a 17-year-old Singaporean film maker. In his article, Heller argues that Yee should be taken more seriously and that the Singapore government should not try to suppress the thoughts of her citizens. However, Heller’s arguments are hindered due to the fact that he displays a biasness in favour of Yee and his ignorance and prejudice regarding Singapore and Singaporeans. Throughout Heller’s article, he displays a severe biasness in favour of Yee and frames the situation
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Language for Introducing Questions, Problems, and Limitations (1) A major criticism of Smith’s work is that ….. (2) The key problem with this explanation is that …. (3) However, there is an inconsistency with this argument. (4) One criticism of much of the literature on X is that …. (5) One question that needs to be asked; however, is that …. (Can you add some other language of the same function into the list?) Language for introducing a study’s weakness (1) However
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important processes in essay writing for university: formulating, refining, and expressing academic argument. ‘MetamorTHESIS‘ Your main argument or thesis is your position in answer to the essay question. It changes and develops as you undertake your reading and research towards the essay. how to develop & communicate academic argument “I love the way the authors explain what an argument is. I also love the way they justify holding opinions in an academic context … A Visual Guide to
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Ke Zhan 詹可 Philosophy 120 J. Gentzler Summer 2016/5/31 Arguments of The impiety of Socrates In the “Apology” written by Plato, Socrates is charged of impiety that he teaches students not to believe in the gods in whom the city believes but in other new spiritual things (Plato, Apology,25b). Socrates argues that he is not guilty of impiety and he believes in the god. Perhaps the strongest argument that Socrates gives for this claim relies on the claim that the new spiritual things he believes are
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Phil essay http://philpapers.org http://plato.stanford.edu/index.html (c) Research Essay (35%). (1) Essays must answer (or address) one of the essay prompts provided by the Unit Coordinator of PHIL1001. A PDF document with essay prompts will be posted on the LMS associated with PHIL1001 in the first few weeks of semester. (2) The essay should not exceed 1,000 words (excluding bibliographical information). If an essay is longer than this, the marker may ignore the excess words, or the essay
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Persuasive Writing Edit 0 28… What do I need to know about ... Persuasive Writing? What's the point? The aim of a persuasive essay is to convince you audience to agree with you. You must have points for and against your position - in order to demonstrate that you have considered the other side. However, to make this essay effective points for your position should be much stronger than the points against you so that your audience end up believing the thing that you want them to. What are the conventions
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witnessing the living standards improve from sweatshop jobs. That growth included his wife’s ancestral village in Southern China. Kristof succeeds in writing an informative and interesting argument on the positive outlook on sweatshop jobs and how they are a dream to families of Phnom Penh. In Kristof’s argument he presented testimonies of women and children of Phnom Penh, this created effective evidence. These following quotes are from his discussion with some of the women he met while in East Asia
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Argument for Public School Uniforms Sydney Slifka University of Colorado Denver School uniforms have created a debate to whether or not they are an effective addition to a school environment and to individual students themselves. Over the last decade, uniforms in public schools have increased, bringing a great deal of controversy along with them. With this public controversy there have been lawsuits, increased media attention, criticism from parents and complaints from students as well as increased
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Week 1 Knowledge CheckResults Concepts Arguments Mastery 100% Questions Score: 10/10 1 7 8 Issues 100% 2 5 9 Claims 100% 3 4 10 Topics 100% 6 Concept: Arguments Concepts Arguments Mastery 100% Questions 1 7 8 1.What would you call a set of claims intended to support or prove a conclusion? A. B. C. D. Argument Issue Opinion Reason Correct! An argument consists of two parts—one part (the premise or premises) is intended to provide
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________________________________________ A Debate A debate is, basically, an argument. That is not to say that it is an undisciplined shouting match between parties that passionately believe in a particular point of view. In fact the opposite is true. Debating has strict rules of conduct and quite sophisticated arguing techniques and you will often be in a position where you will have to argue the opposite of what you believe in. Concept: The Topic If a debate is a form of argument then it logically follows that there must be
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