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1. LINE OF REASONING
HOW TO IDENTIFY THE
IN AN ARGUMENT

2. ARUGMENT?
WHAT’S AN

3. ARGUMENT
CLAIMS
REASONING
EVIDENCE
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4. ARGUMENT
CLAIMS
WHAT THE AUTHOR
WANTS TO PROVE IS
TRUE, VALUABLE , OR
IMPORTANT TO DO.

5. LINE OF REASONING
CLAIMS
SHOREWOOD
SHOULD OFFER A
CLASS IN MIXED
MARTIAL ARTS.

6. ARGUMENT REASONS
THE PARTS OF THE ARGUMENT THAT
EXPLAIN WHY THE CLAIM IS TRUE.
STUDENTS WHO TAKE MIXED MARTIAL
ARTS WOULD BE BETTER ABLE TO DEFEND
THEMSELVES IN THE REAL WORLD.

7. ARGUMENT
EVIDENCE
FACTS THAT SUPPORT THE
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE
REASON AND THE CLAIM.

8. ARGUMENT
EVIDENCE
MY COUSIN IS A MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
MASTER WHO WAS ABLE TO REPEL AN
ATTACK ON HER LAST YEAR.

9. ARGUMENT
EVIDENCE
A STUDY FROM GONZAGA UNIVERSITY FOUND THAT
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS PRACTITIONERS ARE 30% LESS
LIKELY TO SUFFER SERIOUS INJURY IN STREET-LEVEL
MUGGINGS THAN NON-MIXED MARTIAL ARTS CITIZENS.

10. LINE OF REASONING Requires multiple arguments

11. LINE OF REASONING
CLAIMS
REASONS
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Schools should rethink giving students
summer homework. Last year, the Fremont
schools district decided to ban summer
homework because they noted that teachers
were reporting that student work was
substandard. There simply isn’t much
positive learning that occurs when students
are forced to churn through a long paper on
the French Revolution when they’d rather
be at the beach.

12. LINE OF REASONING
CLAIMS
REASONS
EVIDENCE
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Schools should rethink giving students
summer homework. Last year, the Fremont
schools district decided to ban summer
homework because they noted that teachers
were reporting that student work was
substandard. There simply isn’t much
positive learning that occurs when students
are forced to churn through a long paper on
the French Revolution when they’d rather
be at the beach.

13. LINE OF REASONING
CLAIMS
REASONS
EVIDENCE
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Schools should rethink giving students
summer homework. Last year, the Fremont
schools district decided to ban summer
homework because they noted that teachers
were reporting that student work was
substandard. There simply isn’t much
positive learning that occurs when students
are forced to churn through a long paper on
the French Revolution when they’d rather
be at the beach.

14. LINE OF REASONING
CLAIMS
REASONS
EVIDENCE
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Schools should rethink giving students
summer homework. Last year, the Fremont
schools district decided to ban summer
homework because they noted that teachers
were reporting that student work was
substandard. There simply isn’t much
positive learning that occurs when students
are forced to churn through a long paper on
the French Revolution when they’d rather
be at the beach.

15. Your turn
CLAIMS
REASONS
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Researchers have found that voter turnout
is a habitual behavior: The best predictor of
whether you’ll do it in the future is whether
you have a pattern of doing it. People who
vote in the first three elections when
they’re eligible will likely vote for the rest
of their life. And the chaotic years from 18
to 21 are a terrible stage to acquire a new
habitual behavior, because they’re full of so
many life changes. If everyone registered to
vote as kids and voted as kids, they’d have a
decade or more of practice at their civic
responsibility by age 18. Therefore, we
should let all people vote, regardless of age.
Adapted from “Young people have a stake in our future. Let them vote.” by Kelsey Piper. Vox