The Rebuttal

Today we talked about the two ways you can incorporate a rebuttal into your persuasive essay.  There is a handout you received in class today explaining the two options.  Option 1 (the easy one) is below.  It has your rebuttal as a separate paragraph that you can put anywhere after the intro paragraph, and before the conclusion paragraph.

 Below is option 2.  Instead of having a rebuttal paragraph, you have two separate rebuttal statements that you insert into two of your body paragraphs.  This is much more difficult because each of those rebuttal statements have to relate to the topic of the paragraph you place it.  You really have to write the paragraph first, and then try to see how someone would argue with it.



Homework:  Either a draft of your intro paragraph or your rebuttal paragraph is due Monday.



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