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Skill 6.C Daily Video 2: ● Compare and contrast: thesis can be about commonalities or differences of two subjects ● Can use venn diagrams and t-chart ● Can develop an outline for essay based on your organizer ● Intro, para 1, para 2, conclusion ● Can always engage in much more detailed brainstorming ● Cause and effect: thesis shows causality ● Two concepts and their relationship and influence ● Answer how they influence each other for a thesis ● Cause can have multiple effects, can include all in thesis ● Or multiple causes ● Can apply different approaches for one prompt or even both ● Sophistication can come from combining approaches Skill 6.A Video 2 ● Most body paragraphs have the same basic components ● Can be adapted or expanded ● Claim, evidence, and commentary can be in any order ● Don’t want to write in a basic format ● Vary the order: inductive reasoning (start with evidence) ● Explore multiple layers of a point/idea ● Use commentary as a mediator ● Incorporate many pieces of evidence towards main idea ● How can you develop your body paragraph ● Can give to layers of evidence and connect them ● Body paragraphs contribute to a line of reasoning ● The parts of a body paragraph should be adapted to make that paragraph contribution full and convincing ● There is no one right way to develop a body paragraph 4.6.2 ● Since arguments are part of ongoing discourse, you should avoid expressing claims reasoning evidence and absolute claims ● Never use absolute terms (always, never) ● It gives you no wiggle room\ ● You can’t back out of it ● ALways two ways to look at something ● Use words like even though, such ( can soften the argument) ● Don’t make a generalization ● Still has a strong argument ● Recognize there are other ways to view the topic ● When you use you your talking about audience ● Audience may not have thought of something from their perspective ● Get rid of you ● It's not about the reader ● We is a generalization ● Anything is absolute ● Can’t suggest everyone has the same experience ● No is absolute ● Use qualifying language ● Place yourself in the continuum ● Avoid making accidental tertiary claims

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