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Debate and Persuasive writing.

1. Basic Terms: Debate, resolution, affirmative team, negative team, rebuttal, judges.

2. Giving Support for your reasons: Support consists of evidence. The four kinds of evidence: examples, common sense, expert opinions and statistics.

3. Rebuttal: explains why one team disagrees with the other team.

4. Evaluate the Reliability of Sources. List the factors that are relevant to the reliability of the source, such as the name of the author, publication, consistency of information

5. Arguments: Don’t confuse “having an argument” with the persuasive writing term, “argument”. When you “have an argument” with someone, that implies a type of conflict or quarrel. In persuasive writing, your “argument” is your position on an issue, or your point-of-view that you will defend with good reasoning.

6. It Is important to use apropriate phrases to explain your argument and point of view, such as: I think..., In my opinion..., I'd like to..., I'd rather..., I'd prefer..., The way I see it..., As far as I'm concerned..., If it were up to me..., I suppose..., I suspect that..., I'm pretty sure that..., It is fairly certain that..., I'm convinced that..., I honestly feel that, I strongly believe that..., Without a doubt,...;