Arguments

1) What are the three basic parts of the argument? Define the parts and how they work together.
2) What is wrong with invading Iraq based on the argument on page 77? The link below provides some context
of Colin Powell’s speaking of an “interim report” of foreign intelligence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCXg4N0eIJY
3) Why is the Naomi Orestes argument on page 79 persuasive? Click on the supplemental links below to listen
to Oreskes discuss rhetorics of science and enhance the context provided by the text.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbHdI9KJhyM
4) Time to practice constructing your own argument: Look at the example argument about a universal health
care system provided on page 80. Write a refutation to this. That is, using at least 2 reasons and 2 pieces of
evidence, write an opposing argument in bullets. Your thesis will be something like, “The U.S. should not adopt
a universal health care system because…”