1. Argument Essay Review
No, I’m right. Really, I am!!

2. Defend, Challenge or Qualify Prompts
Respond to a relatively brief quotation
Respond to a longer passage
Open-ended

3. Defend, Challenge or Qualify
Write the six ways these prompts could be worded

4. Terminology Defend=support Challenge=oppose or refute
Qualify=yes, but or no, but

5. How to support your position
Specific evidence
Evidence from observation, experience or reading
Your own knowledge and experience

6. Prompt Deconstruction
Label TAG
Title, author, genre
If you are asked to respond to writer’s position ask yourself
What is their position?
How am I asked to respond?
What evidence?
If you are asked to take a position, ask yourself
What is the issue?
What stand will I take?
What evidence will I use?

7. Passage Mark key words or phrases Mark specific evidence
Mark transition words indicating shifts
Mark ideas you do not agree with

8. Go!
Do this with the prompt and passage on page three of the packet

9. Ehrenreich’s Assertions
Read “Clueless in Academe”
Do the activities 1-9 at bottom of this page continuing to the next
Do “D. Identifying and Supporting….”